I was watching Saturday Night Live tonight. Maybe the writers should
have stayed on strike.

On Feb 23, 8:49 pm, replyonuse...@emailprivate.com wrote:
> I was watching Saturday Night Live tonight. Maybe the writers should
> have stayed on strike.

Saturday Night Live has sucked for well over a decade now.

In article <0712s31ibreh033dc0617k2sensqe65422@4ax.com>,
replyonusenet@emailprivate.com says...
> I was watching Saturday Night Live tonight. Maybe the writers should
> have stayed on strike.

That show has not been funny since Tim Kazurinsky left it.

That was before some people reading this were even alive yet.

Forge <forge@killallspammers.youneedageek.com> writes:
>In article <0712s31ibreh033dc0617k2sensqe65422@4ax.com>,
>replyonusenet@emailprivate.com says...
>> I was watching Saturday Night Live tonight. Maybe the writers should
>> have stayed on strike.
>
>That show has not been funny since Tim Kazurinsky left it.
>
>That was before some people reading this were even alive yet.
>

Or some would say since Dana Carvey left,
or since Eddie Murphy left,
or since Chevy Chase left.

Tim who?

scott

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:47:48 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

>Forge <forge@killallspammers.youneedageek.com> writes:
>>In article <0712s31ibreh033dc0617k2sensqe65422@4ax.com>,
>>replyonusenet@emailprivate.com says...
>>> I was watching Saturday Night Live tonight. Maybe the writers should
>>> have stayed on strike.
>>
>>That show has not been funny since Tim Kazurinsky left it.
>>
>>That was before some people reading this were even alive yet.
>>
>
>Or some would say since Dana Carvey left,
>or since Eddie Murphy left,
>or since Chevy Chase left.
>
>Tim who?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443730/

58 episodes.


>
>scott

The show's been on for over 30 years. It had GREAT stretches (the first four
years, the early 90s) and years/casts that've sucked to being a disaster
(the Lorne Michaelsless years of the early/mid 80s). We're certainly in a
lull. Who's on there now that you'd put in Hartman's league? Or Mike Myers'?
Or the original cast? Nobody's close now. Hammond WAS funny years ago, but
he's stale. And Seth Meyers (and most of the rest of the cast) was never
funny to begin with. How the heck did Lorne Michaels find this guy worthy of
the covetted Weekend Update?
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>I was watching Saturday Night Live tonight. Maybe the writers should
> have stayed on strike.

Benjamin Pavsner <pavsnerp@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> The show's been on for over 30 years. It had GREAT stretches (the first four
> years, the early 90s) and years/casts that've sucked to being a disaster
> (the Lorne Michaelsless years of the early/mid 80s). We're certainly in a
> lull. Who's on there now that you'd put in Hartman's league? Or Mike Myers'?
> Or the original cast? Nobody's close now. Hammond WAS funny years ago, but
> he's stale. And Seth Meyers (and most of the rest of the cast) was never
> funny to begin with. How the heck did Lorne Michaels find this guy worthy of
> the covetted Weekend Update?

Where are the minor leagues for comics to learn and practice and work
their way up to SNL?

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:10:12 -0600, Mark Nobles
<cmn-nospam@comcast.net> wrote:
>> The show's been on for over 30 years. It had GREAT stretches (the first four
>> years, the early 90s) and years/casts that've sucked to being a disaster
>> (the Lorne Michaelsless years of the early/mid 80s). We're certainly in a
>> lull. Who's on there now that you'd put in Hartman's league? Or Mike Myers'?
>> Or the original cast? Nobody's close now. Hammond WAS funny years ago, but
>> he's stale. And Seth Meyers (and most of the rest of the cast) was never
>> funny to begin with. How the heck did Lorne Michaels find this guy worthy of
>> the covetted Weekend Update?
>
>Where are the minor leagues for comics to learn and practice and work
>their way up to SNL?

Your local comedy club.

I THINK the Groundlings (where many castmembers , like Phil Hartman, came
from from the 90s on) are still around. And the UBER comedy troop, Second
City, is definately still around.
"Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:270220082110123811%cmn-nospam@comcast.net...
> Benjamin Pavsner <pavsnerp@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> The show's been on for over 30 years. It had GREAT stretches (the first
>> four
>> years, the early 90s) and years/casts that've sucked to being a disaster
>> (the Lorne Michaelsless years of the early/mid 80s). We're certainly in a
>> lull. Who's on there now that you'd put in Hartman's league? Or Mike
>> Myers'?
>> Or the original cast? Nobody's close now. Hammond WAS funny years ago,
>> but
>> he's stale. And Seth Meyers (and most of the rest of the cast) was never
>> funny to begin with. How the heck did Lorne Michaels find this guy worthy
>> of
>> the covetted Weekend Update?
>
> Where are the minor leagues for comics to learn and practice and work
> their way up to SNL?

Natalie Teeger <replyonusenet@emailprivate.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:10:12 -0600, Mark Nobles
> <cmn-nospam@comcast.net> wrote:
> >> The show's been on for over 30 years. It had GREAT stretches (the first
> >> four
> >> years, the early 90s) and years/casts that've sucked to being a disaster
> >> (the Lorne Michaelsless years of the early/mid 80s). We're certainly in a
> >> lull. Who's on there now that you'd put in Hartman's league? Or Mike
> >> Myers'?
> >> Or the original cast? Nobody's close now. Hammond WAS funny years ago, but
> >> he's stale. And Seth Meyers (and most of the rest of the cast) was never
> >> funny to begin with. How the heck did Lorne Michaels find this guy worthy
> >> of
> >> the covetted Weekend Update?
> >
> >Where are the minor leagues for comics to learn and practice and work
> >their way up to SNL?
>
> Your local comedy club.
>
I thought that was what they've been getting, but they just don't rate
with the original cast. The old guys had much deeper experience and
training in improv. Stand-up doesn't give them the right kind of
playing off each other and that's what chemistry is all about. And yes,
I realize that very little of SNL is improv, but a lot of it is
chemistry.

Benjamin Pavsner <pavsnerp@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> "Mark Nobles" <cmn-nospam@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Where are the minor leagues for comics to learn and practice and work
> > their way up to SNL?
>
> I THINK the Groundlings (where many castmembers , like Phil Hartman, came
> from from the 90s on) are still around. And the UBER comedy troop, Second
> City, is definately still around.

Good to know, thanks. Do you know how many of the current Not Ready for
Prime Time Players are veterans of those groups?