SNL? Is it possible that it could be getting better?

[raoul duke]

After a couple of truly terrible seasons, it seems that SNL is actually (gasp) getting funnier. They just had an absolutely hilarious Mr. T. sketch and the new news thing annihilates Colin Quin's, which was painfully unfunny. The new news thing is no Norm McDonald's weekend update and smells strongly of the Dan Akroyd and the woman from Third Rock from the Sun, i forget her name. The new political sketches aren't as good as they used to be, back in the Norm McDonald days, but they're better than they were for the past few years, though Daryl Hammond does a wonderful Clinton. McDonald's Bob Dole had me giggling like a little schoolgirl everytime he was on. It seems like most of show's problems revolve around the lack of Norm who was fired, from what i heard because NBC didn't think he was funny. bad move. The show does have some new writers, as seen on Larry King (the only man on tv who looks like an owl!) and i hope they can keep up a decent relatively funny show or else i could see Mad TV becoming the late night saturday night tv show.

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and a voice was screaming: Holy Jesus! What are these damn animals

[generalzod]

YEs yes and yes! they have their share of losers, but the show has had a very talented cast for the last 5 years. Ever since Will Farrell, Daryl Hammond, Molly Shannon etc have joined the show has had its moments of inspiration.
Molly Shannon made me damn near crap my pants whenever she would do "The Counrtney Love Show". Will Farrell's GWB is perfect and Hammond's Clinton is going to be missed. He was nearly as good as the late great Phil Hartmans'.
Firing Norm was the stupiest thing-ever@! He was the best news guy since Dennis Miller. This guy is possibly too mean for tv, but he is needed in these unbearable pc times. I heard the East coast NBC prez Don Olmeyer fired him because Norm was always making fun of OJ who happens to a best bud of Donny.
The show always goes through peaks and valleys. I remember after the originals left in 1980, the show was declared creatively dead. It was painfully unfunny, but just a year and a half later a kooky young man named Eddie Murphy came along and saved the show. After Eddie left in 1983, the show went in the tank again. In 1985, Dennis Miller and Jon Lovitz were added. In 1986 they got one of the best comedy casts ever with Dana Carvey, Jan hooks, phil Hartman and later Mike Meyers, Chris Farley, Rock and Adam Sandler. All of those guys created soem the of the funniest gags ever. The show is 25 years old, it's going to suck on occassion, but it's been very funny for the last several years, unlike MADTV which is irritatingly uneven.

[DJEvil]

Oh, I wasn't sure what the hell to make of that Robert Goulet sketch just now, but, so help me, I laughed hard.

[generalzod]

Of course you did, it was will ferrell!

[raoul duke]

or so the germans would have us believe

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and a voice was screaming: Holy Jesus! What are these damn animals

[captain supermarket]

Why do people always pick on the Germans? They've never done anything wrong.

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Where's the creep that turned me into a spider-eating man-bitch?

[generalzod]

You guessed it. Frank Stallone!

[This message has been edited by generalzod (edited 11-05-2000).]

[captain supermarket]

Who'd you know it was me?

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Where's the creep that turned me into a spider-eating man-bitch?