You know people constantly say how SNL use to be funny. The last great cast was in the 1990's. David Spade, Adam Sandler and Chris Farley and, of course, Phil Hartman. This was also the last year SNL was less...political and more satirical. "Schmitz Gay" beer ad would not fly today. Though it does nothing but show that slovenly pasty people with guts can also be gay. That's genius. But "progressives" would kill that in a heartbeat...on social media. I'd want creator Lorne Michaels to come out one day and admit his Left leaning party are pussies and have handcuffed him to obvious material.
They can blow hard all they want about how they don't have an agenda, but the truth is Lorne Michaels, the Canadian, is a Lefty. Big surprise in comedy OR entertainment.
To me, looking back, SNL was never funny. Even with the likes of Eddie Murphy, that was more The Eddie Murphy Show rather than SNL. John Belushi was painfully overrated. Still unfunny. Most of his physical humor sort of...reminds me of Dad frat humor. It feels like most were done on a dare. Dan Akroyd was more serious than funny. He was the deadpan straight man. Unless you count "Neighbors" which is REALLY bad.
But the real gripe I have about SNL is that, as topical of humor as it can be, it isn't edgy anymore. They attack low hanging fruit and leave a bubble around people like ultra-young and super socialist Alexandria Cortex from the Bronx. There are a TON of jokes to be mined. None of which SNL want to touch. Shows like "In Living Color" would've hit that hard. As would "MadTV." Because humor ISN'T who you like on your baseball team. That makes you a bully actually. It's that we can rib each other. That we can all take a joke. Instead, it's anti-Trump and anyone associated with the Right. That's actually cowardly. I think the braver thing to do is to poke fun at your own base and let the chips fall. But they seem to realize how fragile their emotions are. Derailed and unhinged.
To boot, SNL has never had a full time Asian cast member. Lorne Michaels is a racist bigoted piece of shit, for that reason only. And he hides in plain sight.
Now what?
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