Tuesday, 5 August 2025

Saturday Night Live To End?

 I read through some stuff today, and NBC is having a talk.....losses of $100-million a year are now 'average'.  So the question is...do you just terminate the show completely, or fire the production-bosses?

So five observations:

First, probably from the start (Oct 1975) to around the late 1980s.....it was funny.  At some point around 1992/1993....after viewing an episode....I considered not that funny.  It'd peaked.

Second, there's an era of a dozen years (late 90s to 2009) that I didn't watch it at all. When I started to watch again....I'd generally say that just one or two skits in the show were funny....the rest were marginally worth worth watching.

Third, the slant since 2008 being anti-Republican/pro-Democrat?  Yeah, that's oblivious. 

Fourth, just laying off the production team?  Then what?  

Fifth and final....if you ended the show.....the network would just say it's free-and-open for stations to find their own 'show'.  I'm not sure of what would happen.  Maybe some science-fiction hour?  Maybe roller-derby?  Maybe a whole hour of one single-skit....just comedians allowed to go as far as they want?

My three most favorite skits from SNL:  Washington's Dream (2023), anything with the Californians, and 1976's Samurai Stockbroker with John Belushi (yeah, that was a real Samurai blade used).  

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