I watched one SNL episode from every season

live from new york this video is sponsored by squarespace hello guys welcome back to lauren's basement michael told me he wouldn't let me out of here until i made another video about his show so i'm a big snl fan and i'm not alone I say that because of the current hostage situation. In fact, I've been watching it since I was a kid. I am one of the biggest supporters of the program. I love it for what it is. I like the format. I like the excitement of doing it. a live show and discovering new young talent and I'm always impressed by the work involved, such as building giant sets and elaborate props in just a few days each week;

That being said, there is still a lot to criticize about the show. from their questionable hosting choices to the painfully embarrassing skits they release from time to time, but nothing is more annoying to me than the blanket statement that SNL hasn't been funny in 20 years, not 50 years, hell, I don't care. They have made people laugh. Since 1932, when one-eyed Leslie did her world-famous Calvin Coolidge impression, those were the good old days, these are the kind of comments you'll hear on random YouTube videos on SNL's Instagram page or shout from someone's porch and I always have been. I'm curious to go back and see what all the fuss is about over the way these people describe the show.

It would make you think it looks like this when in reality I bet it's a little more like this and now that

every

episode

ever made is available in Peacock, a service I'll stop using the moment I'm done with this video. I thought why don't I go back and watch some of these

episode

s, only then can I give an accurate view of the evolution of the show. Here it goes, nothing. The first episode of Saturday Night Live looked very different than what would become of the show. The host was comedian George Carlin and he did not appear in any of the sketches.

He just did a few sets of monologues between them and hosted. The musical acts included two really great performances by Billy Preston. I liked a lot of his jokes, but there was one line in particular that influenced how I

watched

the rest of the episodes. Do you ever look at crowds and old movies and wonder if You're Still Dead, damn it, now I'm going to make the pilot more of a real variety show in the literal sense of the word. You had some standout songs from this classic by Andy Kaufman, who had no affiliation with the show and I came just to do this, a random muppet sketch and even a short film just placed in the middle, it seemed like the goal was to appeal to the as many people as possible and move quickly from one thing to another, just in case. the audience might start to fall asleep, this was actually one of the first things I noticed about the episodes was how short the sketches were for the most part, they were just a punchline, move on to the next, they were definitely as unpredictable as snl always has been, but this is quite a far cry from current shows where all the other sketches are too long for a pilot episode, this is a pretty funny moment and had a good flow to it, hope you understand. picked up for

season

two, okay, forget what I said about the sketches being too short.

I guess they stopped doing that. The worst of this episode was almost 12 minutes long and didn't really have a theme or joke throughout. just a bunch of quirky characters taking turns being quirky. Audiences seemed to like a lot of these sketches, but most of them didn't really do it for me. My favorite part was Steve Martin's monologue. Okay, you'll probably see a lot. him in this video because he used to host the show all the time and he's also one of my favorite comedians guess who hosted this

season

that's right o.j simpson if you don't know who oj is he was a football player turned movie star and then Nothing more notable happened, he did a pretty good job on the show, but 70s humor just isn't for me.

The initial sketch for this episode was John Belushi as a samurai and I don't understand what the part is or why. It all culminated in a great Bill Murray dance number on the show now, which is great, but I think my favorite cast member from this era is Jane Curtin. I love his delivery and I can definitely see how he ended up inspiring a bunch of younger writers and Comedians like Tina Fett, I thought this joke was hilarious about a former attorney general who was being given a two-week prison leave. to undergo hip replacement surgery, according to our sources.

Mitchell's secret plan is to systematically replace

every

joint and gland in every organ in a limb. in his body to send his new version back to prison, thus allowing the original to visit himself on weekends. This was an easy choice. Carrie Fisher hosted the fourth season. She was just coming off the success of Star Wars, which was like a space movie from the '70s. They went unnoticed, they had her play Princess Leia in her monologue and the first sketch that was set in the '50s. I love seeing the generations older generations mock even older generations.

I don't know, it's like a time capsule within a time capsule, nothing. This episode really caught my attention though, but it was fun to see a young Carrie Fisher play a lot of characters. I will say the worst sketch in this one made me feel like I was watching a Lele Pons video because everyone was just yelling who is the young man you're going to see tonight his name is ramp okay I've seen five episodes so far and I would put the hit rate between 15 and 20, which is not so good with all its pre-recorded parts or analog shorts.

If you want, it's almost impossible to see them because of how bad they look, this one in particular was basically what every kid does when he gets his first camera for Christmas. Oh, I enjoy sketches that feel really good. Steve Martiny, I think he has a particular style. This part is timeless in which vandals kept playing pranks on a Roman army who liked them, ordered anchovy pizzas and made them pay for it. It was pretty dumb, I liked it, but in just a few months, things at snl were about to get weird. In season six, the show was turned upside down.

Lorne Michaels left because he was feeling burned out, and his successor fired the entire cast and replaced them with 15 new people, 12 of whom only lasted one season. The program changed too dramatically. He was hated by the people who stayed. to see it and ratings plummeted over the next year. NBC almost canceled snl entirely, which would have made this video much shorter. Every time I hear someone say that snl hasn't been fun since the 70s, I now imagine them watching them. this season and then I canceled the show forever. I

watched

the first episode and it feels like a strange dream.

It's so strange to see something that looks like Saturday Night Live but not recognize a single face besides Elliott. Great, there's something so amateurish about the whole thing. It almost feels like I'm watching a political episode of the whole thing, it probably didn't help that they introduced newcomer Charles Rocket as some sort of cross between Chevy Chase and Bill Murray, which is an incredibly high bar to cross, especially for someone so uncharismatic. and bad at jokes, hey, how's that? Rings of Saturn, no wonder they only allowed him to do five episodes of Weekend Update before adding a co-host to the mix.

Hamilton Jordan created the new Secretary of State-designate and his wife pictured this week. it's hammond higgs oh no she sucks too anyway i can't decide if my favorite sketch was the nose wrestling competition or when these shoes had sex should i censor this jesus? It seemed as if they were simultaneously trying to distance themselves from snl. In the past, for example, they rebranded the weekend update as news while also holding on to everything they could to offer recognizability to viewers across the country. life. Sure we may not have Bill Murray anymore, but we do have his brother.

I would describe this period as the era of wordplay because, wow. Did you love those? A crazed reindeer can inflict slavery. Honestly, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that Eddie Murphy could have single-handedly saved the show. He was one of the only cast members to survive this season and obviously ended up being. one of the biggest stars people think of when they talk about snl, danny devito turned in an 82 and they included him in a sketch called the whiners, can you guess what they like, but he'll stick out and i won't have room for my feet, it's true, they want it to still be cold now imagine watching five minutes of this platform moranis organized an 83 but not only, I have never seen duel hosts before oh please God, no, not the crybabies again, thank you Finally Robin Williams organized an 84 and they let him do the weekend update, which had again been renamed this time as SNL News.

I think they were just looking for any excuse not to have their regular host brad hall do it because it was boring once again eddie practically runs the show on his At this point I can't imagine how much worse it would be without him hey speaking of Lauren and snl's back, it's finally good again. Just kidding, season 85 is almost an even bigger disaster than 1980. Did you know Robert Downey Jr. was in the cast this year, huh, it's pretty crazy how forgettable his time here was, but the whole theme of this season is crazy, the main difference between this and the sixth season is that this time they tried to play with the absurd, winking at the audience as if to say yes, this season is a little weird, but we know it's weird.

NBC asked me to read the following statement about last year's entire season. It was all a dream, a horrible, horrible dream and I think his self-awareness just worked. here because they were able to get back to being pretty solid again. '86 was Dana Carvey's first season and she stood out immediately. Also kevin nealon joined victoria jackson phil hartman in 1987. they hired three new writers bob odenkirk greg daniels and conan o' Brien which is like an all star team. Some of the sketches from this period are so silly I feel like they must have been written by Bob or Conan.

I feel like I remember seeing this a long time ago, but they opened season 14 with a sketch about a bank that makes change, but they basically keep listing different combinations. We won't give you change you don't want. If you come to us with a 100 bill, we will not give you 2,000. Five cents unless that meets your particular exchange needs and works because of how serious it is, we'll give you change equal to the amount of money you want to exchange, because I actually ended up watching several shows from 1988 because this was easily my season favorite. So far Matthew Broderick's monologue was great, he turned it into a lesson in how to do a monologue and then I don't know why I like this one so much but they did one where he was nervous about going to a nude beach but his friend assured him hey, in five minutes you'll completely forget that you're naked and then the rest of the sketch was like that.

I'd like you to meet uh doug, hey doc, hey doug, hey guys, pretty small penis, it's so big. Simple idea, but I thought they pulled it off pretty well. Want to see my photos from Barbados. Sure, there I am with some friends on a catamaran. The penis looks great. I think that's how a lot of the good sketches from that time could be described. simple ideas that were well executed tune says that the driver cat is another of my favorites the driving test do you think tune sizzle passes his driving test i don't know the written part is quite difficult maybe he will make up for it in the driving part, Damn, I wish I could help you.

There's also the long white beard commercial that you can use sarcastically when you're trying to show someone what kept you waiting in 1989. Rick Moranis presented again with a monologue that he took my breath away. Breathtaking just watching it, but my favorite sketch was at the end where the new MLB commissioner meets about how they are going to honor the former commissioner who had died a couple of months before. I request that the players on each team wear black armbands with Bart's initials in honor of this great man, but then they keep listing more and more things they will name after him until it becomes totally ridiculous and Bart's favorite position in the left field will be known as bartland usa.

I can definitely understand why people consider the late 80's to be one of the first golden eras of snl, there was a great mix of talented writers and performers who were open to silly ideas that I think are still funny today. It also helped the show revive its reputation after a tumultuous start. decade, it didn't take them long to transition into their second golden era, which was the early '90s, the cast now included chris farley chris rock adam sandler david spade mike myers, all of whom became huge stars in one way or another yes I'm being honest, although I think thisperiod is a little overrated.

Chris Farley was electric, everything he was in was better because he was in it, but other than that I feel like people assume this period was good because of names like Adam Sandler. It was really funny back then, that was 10 years ago. You see, he and snl have a similar reputation in that a lot of people think they're not funny now, but they used to be funny and I don't know if Adam Sandler ever was. how funny, he's extremely likable on the show and I think that's why so many people gravitate towards him, but he's not a great joke writer and a lot of his iconic characters from that era seemed like something a teenager would come up with.

I think he's made a couple of really good movies, some pretty good movies and a handful of fun songs on snl, but the best thing he did was surround himself with more talented people. Some of his most beloved sketches from this era are the ones where Chris Farley is doing 100 of the heavy lifting and that's okay, it's an ensemble show that's how it works, I just think his contribution to snl is a little overstated due to the notoriety that comes with his name. I also feel like the writing fell flat here despite all the talent in the cast not named Rob Schneider once they found a character.

I liked that they took it to the ground, a tradition that, to be fair, has continued since the first time Chris Farley did it. Matt Foley is probably one of the best SNL sketches of all time. The physicality of him, the other actors slowly break the palpable emotion of the audience. It is impossible. watch this without smiling, but then they did it seven more times in three years and each time it became a little less funny. In general, I feel like the sketches stopped being as creative as they were in the late 80s, like they were taking fewer risks. a lot of stoner guys and transvestites, which was like a comedy cheat code at the time, we would just put one of the guys in a dress and that's the whole joke, the outlandish and risky ideas were becoming more and more rare, but when They did Come on, they were great, Phil Hartman, as the unfrozen caveman lawyer made me laugh.

Sketches like this will always be more memorable than the teenagers telling their mom to shut up or the guys hiding marijuana and antiques who put your weed there. and you put your weed there, you put your weed there, you know, I take it back, maybe the smartest thing Adam Sandler ever did was be in the same room as Rob Schneider, who makes everyone around him look funny in comparison despite to have such a big star. -In 1995, the show was in danger of being canceled once again and NBC forced Lauren to fire Adam Sandler and Chris Farley, I think because at the time they were making more money than everyone else.

Luckily for them, it took them an entire season to find replacements in tim meadows molly shannon chris cattan daryl hammond anna gasteyer and of course will ferrell who became the new face of the show, I wouldn't say they hit their stride right away , though he stood out pretty quickly, but it wasn't until a couple of years later, when the sketches started to become more consistent, Steve Buscemi was introduced at 98 and in his monologue he tried to prove that he wasn't just a serious actor doing improvisational comedy , okay, audience, uh, let's try another location, a daycare, that sucks surprisingly.

My favorite sketch in this episode was a fake trailer for a Disney movie where they turn the Titanic into an animated musical for children. Don't mention Titan or your son will hate you when he grows up. I always hated these animated skits. The worst sound to hear in the middle. of the show was this one because I knew I wasn't going to like it, but this one was okay when the weekend update came. I was very confused when colin quinn showed up. I thought I was familiar with every weekend update host. Apparently I was wrong, Norma McDonald.

He was fired mid-season because he made too many O.J Simpson jokes and one of the NBC executives was a friend of OJ. If that story is true, it's funnier than anything this guy has said in his two years on the show, finally in '99, Toby McGuire was the host, which I thought. It was strange because I didn't think he became a big star until Spider-Man came out a few years later. He did a couple of impressions. The audience really loved it. nothing, the question was right, anything and you were wrong and you screamed when the bell saved you.

He was a natural and Will Ferrell was also really great in this episode. There's a reason he's the defining member of this cast if he had to choose. I would say the two worst parts of this episode were Jimmy Fallon as Hillary Swank. I'm a girl, you know? and this sketch featuring a Cherio Terry character named Nadine. Now, if you're a little older than me, you might be thinking, wait, I remember that. character, she's the one who calms down now ma'am, I loved those sketches and I would just say I might go back and watch a full sketch, although I did enjoy her performance here.

I don't love that the joke is just that they tell her to calm down now like 30 times more. The comedy style is one of my least favorite parts of snl and I think something has plagued the show for the last three decades. Okay, there's a difference between repeating a joke but adding to it each time and just saying the same thing over and over again. This happened again and again in the next episode I watched with Conan. I was very excited about this. I didn't even know he had been a host, but one of the first sketches they did was him as a molecular man where he kept repeating his catchphrase. and I get that the joke was that he was giving away his identity every time he said that, but it was still a little annoying, okay, although they made up for it by doing this sketch where he's a doctor.

Hello, Mr. Berenwa Brown, who has to break the news to your patient that to save his life during surgery they had to remove his stain, are you talking about my fleshy bastard? you slaughtered me Horatio sans is so good at this if he didn't sell it as well as him it wouldn't have worked at all but his devastation is hilarious oh he can't work he lost this was another fantastic cast although most of them didn't become in big movie stars like the cast of the early 90s, were they all? really fun artists who were perfect for this show, you had rachel dratch, maya rudolph, tracy morgan, chris parnell and tina fey, they started updating with jimmy fallon who i guess just woke up from a nap, britney spears episode on 2002 was really good, she nailed Barbie, which may not sound like a compliment, but she was really funny in this, right down to the arm movement.

I also liked this sketch about a news show where everything kept going wrong and the rest of the episode was forgettable. Will Ferrell moved on from snl later. this season, but I think he left the show in very good hands with fred armisen and will be joining at the same time in season 28. You know how much I would love to see Al Gore, John McCain or Jeff Gordon, presenting what happened here. This time I went with another Britney, Murphy. I actually like Jimmy and Horatio's Leatherman sketches, but you won't believe it. In fact, they broke character during the process.

I've never seen them do that before. Two of the most popular SNL sketches of all time came when Lindsay Lohan hosted in 2004, but I was more interested in seeing the Olsen twins host the season finale together in New York Minute, a very good movie , did you know? Never mind, Tom Brady hosted season 30. Wow, is there anything? this guy can't do it i'm the shambling bear don't ask me why oh comedy maybe he really is human after all for some reason season 31 barely exists online the longest episode available is only 26 minutes and a third of I'm Dane Cook, get up.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't super excited for this episode as a kid and watching this turtleneck sketch again brought back a memory I forgot. I actually told my friend about this parody. The following Monday I praised both him and Dane Cook as the funniest thing I had ever seen. Everybody makes mistakes. The best part of this episode, at least the one that has survived on the Internet, is this digital short pizza from Tacotown, that's what I call a taco and that brings. I, to the most formative years of my snl memory, did they say about snl?

Everyone's favorite cast is from when they were teenagers. Well I was 12 years old in 2006 so this was my favorite part and the reason I wanted to make this video was actually. Go back and watch these full episodes to see if they're really as great as I remember them or if I'm doing what the generation before me did with the Adam Sandler era and wouldn't you know it, these episodes aren't perfect either. . My own brain has lied to me. I chose the Matthew Fox episode because I've actually been watching Lost recently and I wanted to relive what it was like when that show was America's biggest cultural phenomenon.

I like skits related to loss and I always thought the MTV4 show they did was pretty funny. In this one Maya sang a song called Tiny Moves where she did little dance moves but the rest of the show flopped in 2008, Shia Labeouf was the host which made this a pretty easy choice for me, part of the fun of snl is how they preserve specific moments from the heights of these celebrities' stardom. I also remember liking this episode. There were three really great sketches, an old game show that turned into a murder investigation, a little scary. Keean and this one where Shia and Andy buy drinks for two women who have a huge crush on them.

Well, why choose one when you can have them all? Oh, you mean an eight-track, when it rains, it pours, so I never really liked Vinnie's. Vecchi's sketches while he was growing up because he didn't understand them, but seeing them as an adult I appreciate them a lot more, especially how Will Forte never has any lines, but he's always in the background eating spaghetti. I have to take away a couple of points for having them. probably the worst digital short of the hundred they made there's a reason I don't remember this talking about young celebrities at the peak of their stardom a long haired zac efron presented in 2009 and did a bunch of sketches that snl The YouTube page I've probably recommended to you at some point that there's a bar that doesn't have cards, which Zack and Andy think is really cool until they realize there are eight-year-olds here.

Oh, oh, watch out guys, they're gerbils, gerbils, that's just the opposite. From Cougars there is Troy Bolton returning to East High School to warn everyone that no one sings in college and that everyone at this school received a terrible education. I learned that I don't have to play into the stereotypes people have about me. I can be a jock and a dancer what's the capital of texas uh texas city texas city yeah and finally this one with fred armisen next season had my favorite of jon hamm's three time hosts, although this is one of those episodes that It's a little hard to rewatch because it's too long, political, cold, open, boring topical sketch that's obviously not topical anymore and now that that's out of the way, we can move on to fun stuff like this sketch that always makes me has charmed with musical guest michael buble called ham and bubbly a pork slash They started a champagne restaurant where you slowly realize that John is holding him hostage.

If you can find a better place for pork and champagne, keep it to yourself. Then there was a commercial for the closet organizer, which is just Will Forte in a blue suit, Star Dockers. water, all he needs is two meals a day and a small bucket to relieve himself, then you forget about it for a minute, watch this sketch with fred armisen as a distracting courtroom stenographer and then they finish the show with something I've never done. seen on snl i know you from somewhere are you on tv? a call back to one of the sketches from earlier you're the damn closet organizer aren't you Marbles Pies Pies season 36?

Emma Stone was the host and she is one of those people like Jon. hamm and ryan gosling who elevate the episode every time they're with some guests, you have to work and give them little bits and pieces and not too many wordy lines, so it's always nice when the hosts can do a sketch on their own, especially When the show was trying to navigate the cast rotation this season, it had Abbey Elliott and Paul Britton, two people who never had much of an impact on anything. This weekend's update was great too, they had Stefan and also John Mulaney as himself, something he did twice while Writing for the show, I love watching any movie starring an animal because the animal doesn't know it's there. in a movie.

Daniel Radcliffe was really good in season 37. They did a Harry Potter sketch where he's been to Hogwarts, but. he doesn't want to accept it, but my favorite was probably spinning the bottle, making sure it lands on me. I'll try. Bobby Moynihan was amazingon snl and I miss him a lot. Who do you come from? I fell from the sky JK from the forest. and finally season 38 was the last season for fred bill and jason sedakis so this really was the end of an era obviously bill and fred were dynamic performers who had a massive impact on the show but i think jason was also an big loss, it's easy. overlook the importance of the regular guy in the sketches, you don't always realize how valuable they were until they're gone, since then they tried to fill those roles with taryn killum and mikey day, but jason was so affable to him that I don't think that they've been able to completely replace since he left anyway, I chose the Bruno Mars episode and outside of the monologue song, a sketch about the creepy animatronics and the surprisingly serious sad mouse, there was nothing here to stand out. and now they're all gone, sometimes when I think about modern snl, I think you know they're still in a transitional period, they're still figuring things out and then I realize it's been like nine years already and rewatching The shows from 2013 onwards I realized that many of them aren't even that bad or at least not much worse than the shows I've spent the last three weeks watching.

The cast is still extremely talented, although perhaps not always used in the best way. way, but this period had kate mckinnon bobby moynihan edie bryant vanessa oso who was super underrated and taryn killum had some really fun characters that killed every time a lot of this, although I appreciate it more in hindsight, I was less excited to watch snl in that moment and often didn't and yes I think the quality went down a bit but that had more to do with the fact that I was like 20 at the time and was more critical of the things I watched so I completely understand why that people older than me did the same thing with the mid 2000s cast that I grew up with, so 2013 to 2016 is kind of the modern era of snl but pre-trump and I feel like it was right when they were beginning to find its comic base. here comes alecbaldwin again, i've talked about this before but one misconception people have is that snl got political in 2016 as if that's not something they've done before in recent weeks.

I've seen them make fun of obama hillary clinton jimmy carter. ronald reagan al gore mitt romney george bush one and two and now they make fun of biden kamala harris will become the first vice president to appear as a wax figure in madame tussaud's wax museum while joe biden is the first wax figure in become president and Sure, like a lot of people, I prefer non-political skits, but let's not act like this is something new they're trying. It's like saying I liked snl until they started having musical guests personally. My biggest problem is how snl handled the issue.

The Trump era was just that they hired, of course, they're going to do sketches about Donald Trump, but you have all these new cast members on the show trying to make a name for themselves and then you upstage them all by bringing in Alec Baldwin to play me. to the guy who was already getting 24/7 media coverage, so I understand why this would make casual viewers of the show think that one has become more political now and two, the current cast isn't very well, both are the result. of this, but despite being often overshadowed by alec baldwin and jim carrey, i think the current cast and writers have done a pretty solid job, michael and colin are great together even though it took them a couple of years not be terrible at updating and although kyle doesn't always have a big role in the show, i think beck has been a perfect cast member because of how versatile melissa villa lady is she is constantly funny bowen yang already looks like a star in the making and now they have This guy who people text me saying they thought it was me just because we have the same face name and hairstyle but of course I couldn't talk about modern snl without mentioning this what I have What to say right now might be a little embarrassing. saw me not lying that looks like cap this episode was horrible i hated it it was so hard to watch i was actually relieved when chad showed up i hate chad but even in this terrible episode there were some bright spots that i thought about in the sketch how all of our conversations sound the same now it was spot on I went to an outdoor dinner and won the indoor dinner I'm brain damaged but I'm not going to sit here and say it was a good episode because it wasn't I don't think they should have had it in the first place, Although I understand why they did it, that's just what SNL does from time to time, someone controversial will host, whether it's Rudy Giuliani in 1997, a former board game mascot, Donald Trump in 2015, or Elon Musk.

Wait, who is this guy who makes self-driving cars and self-exploding spaceships, but he's not a comedian? This is going to be embarrassing, so then more people than usual will see him, he will be the talk of the town for a day and a half and everyone will choose. worst sketch of the group to post on twitter and satisfy the snl brigade sucks and it's a shame, though not a surprise, that this episode got all the attention because they followed it up the following week with keegan michael key, an iconic sketch artist which brought the exact opposite energy of the show and then a season finale with Anya Taylor Joy that had so many great parts.

I think this was actually their best episode in years. I love this rehash of an old game show where they keep having to cut parts out. because the celebrities in all of this turned out to be terrible people, i loved beck bennett like my favorite celebrity, vin diesel, when the movie isn't loud enough, when the movie is too loud and the whole weekend update segment was hilarious and culminated in what I suppose it will be. will be cecily's farewell after nine years on the show there is a very specific group of people who say snl isn't funny anymore they haven't done anything funny since chris farley left but every now and then they will say this is the funniest thing snl has done in 20 years this is the funniest thing snl has done in 20 years this is the funniest this is the funniest this is the funniest how many times can you say that before you realize maybe the show is still funny at times and my hyperbolic tagline isn't as accurate as I thought so if we're asking the question it's even worse now than ever the answer is no it's the same as it's always been the difference is that in 1992 if there was a terrible, unfunny sketch and there were people who forgot about it the next day, a big part of the reason why there is this generation that remembers the 80s and 90s with rose-colored glasses is because these sketches were retroactively seen in form of the best of dvds and abridged reruns on vh1. where they condense the episode into the three funniest sketches and the rest quietly disappear from the face of the earth today, it takes five minutes for a sketch to be copied on Twitter and the quote retweeted into oblivion.

Every failure that occurs in the program will break. shattered not necessarily because it's so much worse than ever, but because it's so much easier now to get over all the stuff, like 70 of which is the Internet, Twitter, and my YouTube channel. Nostalgia is a drug that makes us misinterpret our memories. It's human. nature looks back and looks at things more fondly because the old is good and the new is bad and because of its longevity snl will always be a victim of this but most of the time it is an illusion I guarantee this will come back to happen in another decade when people are like this. snl hasn't been funny since the 2010s.

Remember kate mckinnon and cecily strong, beck and kyle? Those guys were stars. This new cast sucks and they do too many sketches about President Carlson. When did he become so political? My point is not that you. You're wrong to not like Saturday Night Live. I love the show and I'll be the first to admit that it sucks at times and I admit that it can feel a little strange to defend something with a success rate that would only be impressive if this were baseball. Time is valuable and if staying up to watch this show live isn't worth it for you, I can't blame you.

All I'm saying is that if you're going to criticize the show, at least try to do it with a minimum of nuance. I agree that at this point there are dozens of other sketch shows and even independent YouTubers who make sketches funnier than what you'll see on a random episode of SNL and I think it's natural to want to compare those things, but it's a little unfair when You consider the process of how they are made, most sketches are worked on for weeks or months at a time, written, rewritten, recorded, edited, rewritten again until they are perfect and if something doesn't turn out the way the writers expected. will probably never see the light of day snl doesn't have that luxury the writers are up for 19 hours straight on tuesday trying to come up with an idea good enough to make the host laugh and then they cut it down to eight or nine on wednesday and that's more or less what ends up on the show, so if any of the sketches seem like the crazy ramblings of someone who's dangerously sleep-deprived, that's probably because they are.

I'm pretty sure the only reason the Wario courtroom sketch happened was because Elon said he wanted to play a Mario character and then a couple of writers spent like an hour and a half trying to make something funny. like I said it can seem quite strange to defend something that is often not good, I like to think that I have very good taste when it comes to comedy so a lot of people when they find out that I enjoy this show say that you really like this, just know that most people who watch snl criticize them too.

I don't just sit there laughing. I get angry at every joke, regardless of whether it's funny or not, but it's like being a fan of a sports team: they're not going to win every game, some seasons are better than others, and it sucks when you see your favorite players move on to a team. different, but no matter what I almost always find something to root for, there are nights where it's like that episode was a little harsh but Kyle really shined or Chloe had those two really funny sketches and that's part of the reason why which I enjoy watching, it's fun. supporting these young comedians and watching them improve over time and come into their own and then one of them ends up in a big movie a few years later and you're like, "I remember seeing you when people were saying who is this girl who sucks?" but you always believed that you were there from the beginning and I understand that that kind of thing doesn't matter to a lot of people but I like it snl it's not the pinnacle of comedy but it's not the worst show ever made and if you still feel that I'm absolutely sure that the old programs were perfect and the new ones are shit.

I encourage you to go back and watch a random full episode of your favorite season and you will see that your memory is playing tricks on you. I've rambled for six hours. Damn I hope you like this video, I spent almost the entire month on it so I would appreciate it if you commented something like, you suck, you idiot, broken like you, that would mean a lot to me, that being said, I have bills to pay. and NBC will probably put a copyright strike on this video, so enjoy this word from today's sponsor. Hi, I'm walking by here and I'm the founder and CEO of pictureofhotdog.com, the winner of this year's website award, I know it, I know it, I see it. your comments painted a picture that hotdog.com hasn't been funny since the 90s and I'm sorry, I agree, so to try and recapture some of that vintage magic I've decided to add a new 90s outfit that I had before he left. bald as ever couldn't have created this website without the help of today's sponsor, squarespace, squarespace is the best way to create the website of your dreams, whether it's an online store where you sell clothes for insects or a blog about the What do you want to write.

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Oh, Lorne. Uh, I made the video Lauren Lauren, you're here, I guess I was at my house the whole thing.this time, so I didn't need to make this video, well, see you tomorrow.