Saturday, February 15, 2025

SNL is a crashing bore

Hollywood in Toto: "How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Betrayed Its Legacy (and Us) - Once-mighty show's political bias only half of its existential crisis." 

Here's my take: I used to watch SNL fairly regularly, at least catching the opening sketch and monologue for a laugh.  But then there was a stretch where Alec Baldwin as Trump opened the show every single week.  It was a predictable and total bore with the same anti-Trump jokes recycled over and over.  For the past four years, I've been waiting for the Joe Biden sketches but they never materialized until after the debate and he was essentially a zombie candidate.

So maybe the show is funny again, maybe not.  But I'm not watching so I wouldn't know.

2 comments:

Paul Sand said...

You're not wrong about Alec Baldwin, a long string of tedious and unfunny sketches. But see if you don't laugh at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2nWlXlcO5I

Eric said...

Heh, that was good.