"Saturday Night Live" 50th Season. Starts this September 28, 2024.
 

Not many shows have reached their 50th Season. Congratulations.

I do find these new Seasons a lot less entertaining than the first years.

SNL has been a favorite of ours for a very long time. That being said, in my opinion the show has become unwatchable over the last few years. I thought that opinion was just me being an old curmudgeon who is no longer within the target market of the shows desired viewership demographic. However, many younger people I speak to also feel the show is no longer entertaining, so maybe it’s not just me. Unfortunately, political correctness and good comedy don’t match up very well.

The news segment is still often very funny. And some of the musicians are quite good. Jelly Roll should be fun tonight.

This show has been so bad for at least 10 years. Obnoxiously one sided politically.

I hadn't noticed.

It certainly has a New York City kind of approach to things. The cast is very diverse like the City.

Only in skin color and gender. Otherwise, no intellectual diversity whatsoever. The thing that actually matters and makes "diversity our strength".

Not sure what you mean. Facts are facts no matter what spin is put on them.

ever since Roseanne dan a dania died just want same for me.

Depends on who’s fact checking and how trustworthy the facts are if all facts was brought out.. :ho: sometime some facts get left out or misinterpreted…:boom: now all that has to happen few repeat and now its fact so got to be true :welcome:

So totally agree here. The good old nights at SNL have been gone for a decade IMO. Same for every Award show. Oh, the same for Network news and Network magazine shows like 60 Min, CBS Sunday, etc.
Our choice and we are pleased by it.

I may take a peek if Sandler, Chappelle or Spade were guest hosting.....but I haven’t watched the current SNL product in years. Specifically, when they sacked Norm MacDonald from the Weekend Update. Just because he was incessantly (and rightfully) trolling OJ. His boss, NBC exec Don Ohlmeyer....was a big OJ rumpswab and wasn’t having it anymore!

Even their non-political SNL stuff is not very funny anymore. Maybe all the good writers have died off, just like some of the earlier stars (Belushi, Hartman, Farley, Wilder, etc).

SNL jumped the shark many years ago.

Jelly Roll was really good last night. Liked all the nothings.

Initially, in its early years, it was hilarious and a joy to watch. Sadly, over the years, it gradually degenerated into unwatchable woke garbage.

That is longevity!!! Nowadays I only watch the intro, cold open and Weekend Update. I find the sketches so humourless for the most part. I miss funny people of the past like Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey and Kate McKinnon.

In general, most shows get stale because they are set to an original format and eventually there is only so much you can write about one scenario. The longevity of this show is that it is topical changing with the time, but this is a problem with many in our age range. Though the show keeps on changing many of us as much as we try do not.
If you're going to compare longevity, you cannot compare it to a situation comedy you have to look at it as 60 minutes where over the years the hosts have changed, and the show keeps up with current events.

I worked at NBC in the 70's and was offered to run my department on the show and turned it down because it was too time consuming, and I was young and had a life outside of work.

Watched it from the beginning...totally can't stand to watch it since it became so political sided.

It looked like Dana Carvey was there on September 28, 2024. He played a rather old man.

Loved Jelly Roll's 2nd song which should help many people.

Saturday night
 

The show lost its luster years ago when it went too politically negative and lost good talent. Should be cancelled not 50th season. Lorne Michaels need to retire.

It will probably be around another 25 years. Loved by many people.

....and that’s because the viewership has accepted its mediocrity. The lights will flicker at times but the product is a shell of its former self. There has been talk that Lorne Michaels (80) is potentially stepping down at some point but it’s not his fault....it’s the network. There are so many limitations on talent, content and budget that it’s amazing he stuck around this long. His eventual memoirs will no doubt confirm this

Matter of opinion. SNL is very popular with the 19 to 49 years old viewers. It seems like a lot of its musical guests are also aimed towards that group.

Yup...because the numbers don’t lie, right?

Seriously, I have college age kids...they may check out the cold open on YouTube but like most of their demo, they’re watching the streaming services for real comedy. The likes of Chappelle, Sandler even SNL cast off Shane Gillis...doing unfiltered, uncensored specials on Netflix or listening to Rogan and other podcasters for the real deal. To your point though, they are watching but like most with a short attention span...they’re doing so in 60 second intervals

I still love SNL - especially Weekend Update and the opening skit. The other skits are hit and miss - some good and some blah. But overall, I enjoy the show. As far as being one-sided politically, I saw them make fun of Biden, Harris, Trump and Vance. They work with the material they see and hear from politics.

I see that Jean Smart had a big role in the series 24 which I have been watching. She kind of plays the same kind of character like she did in some of the skits the other night on SNL.

I agree that SNL makes fun of everyone no matter what age, sex, political party or class.

Never really liked the show, the humor isn’t that great.

I was impressed with last night's SNL show. The beginning part was outstanding with Maya Rudolph playing Kamala Harris. The whole show was good - start to finish.

That's a quite interesting personal story. I would like to hear more.

All on a single charge?! :BigApplause::1rotfl:

I will say that some of their hosts of late I have never heard of in any way. And some once I know about them do not want to know anything else about them.

Had not heard about next week's SNL host but he looks like he might be quite good.

I don't understand the point "on a single charge"? I did not mention batteries?

For this weeks episode, Jean Smart was the host. She was the main character in "Hacks", which received a 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a comedy about her as an elderly failing comedian and her younger writer. It was on for 3 seasons. I watched the 1st 6 shows of season 1 and I like it, but then I lost interest. It seemed, to me, to be mainly for a female audience.

I loved her husband Maxwells work on Get Smart. So good! :icon_wink:

Nat Bargatze is next week's SNL host. I am not familiar with his work but it sounds like he is a clean comic. Suitable for all ages.

None of my kids (age 29-39), nor any of their friends, watch the show... So your theory may be incorrect...

He was just on last October... Odd to have him back so soon (although I really like his stand-up...)

You must not be watching the same show I'm watching...

And that was a rarity... They are most definitely one-sided in their commentary. They have been for years...