Why I Can't Watch SNL Anymore...

As I have mentioned in the past, I was a big Saturday Night Live fan ... Up until 2 seasons ago I had watched every episode of SNL from 1980 thru 2007. Good episodes and bad episodes, each season to seem to have each ... but I grew increasingly tired of SNL's writing and sketches...the Weekend Update portion of the show was the only part worth watching. SNL's sketches became just plain stupid and Kristin Wiig seems to play the main character in most of these lame sketches... The Target checkout lady...not funny and boring and now her 'Gilly' character is just as lame and not funny...or that's just what I think... Because I must be in the minority, the SNL Christmas special this year is going to be hosted by Wiig playing her character Gilly. I will likely watch this SNL like I do most of them these days...with the fast forward button used extensively and essentially not watching any of it...

I can not believe how bad SNL has gotten these days but it is just god awful ... but after having a brief glimpse of the Jimmy Fallon Show and George Lopez show it is way better ... but that isn't saying anything. Television programming as a whole in this country is getting more and more worthless every year...

SNL - James Franco Videos

Here are some videos from the SNL hosted by James Franco...

McCain Approves Open:

George and Lenny:

Yankee Stadium: Scorsese & Perez:

SNL Digital Short: Hey! (Murray Hill):

O.J. Jury Selection:

TNT Promo: The Looker:

SNL - Micheal Phelps Video

Here's the promo for the show...



Fake commercial for jar glove...


SNL Digital Short - Space Olympics


Charles Barkley Show - Bella Korolyi, Phelps


T-Mobile - Fav 5


Micheal Phelps Diet

SNL - Steve Carrell Video Clips (5/17/08)

Here are the clips from this past weekend's Saturday Night Live hosted by Steve Carrell... I think every sketch except 2 A-Holes Singing Karoakee sketch are available...unfortunately, the 2 A-Holes are 2 of my favorite characters...anyways, enjoy...

Promos for the show:


Commencenet Open:


Monologue:


Clinton/Obama Commercial:


Deal Or No Deal:


SNL Digital Short: Japanese Office


McCain in One:


Weekend Update: John McCain


Weekend Update: Al Sharpton - Jesse Jackson


Charlie Flitt Show:


CPR Class:


Bless This Child:

SNL - Shia LeBeouf Video Clips (5/10/08)

Here they are, the videos from the SNL hosted by Shia LeBeouf from this past weekend. Lots of videos available from this episode...

Promos For The Show:


Cold Open: Message From Hillary


Shia LeBeouf's Monologue:


It's A Match:


Scared Straight:


SNL Digital Short: Best Look In The World:


Weekend Update Part 1:


Weekend Update Part 2:


Vinny Vedecci Talks With Shia LeBeuof:


MacGruber: Father And Son:


He Likes You:


Girls Trying On Clothes:

SNL - Ashton Kutcher Videos

Videos from the SNL episode hosted by Ashton Kutcher, 4/12/08. Only 3 have been released, so not much available from this episode. The SNL Digital Short was especially weak...

Cold Open: Petraeus Hearings


Ashton Kutcher monologue:


Death By Chocolate 1-3:

SNL - Christopher Walken Videos

Here are the videos from this past weekend's Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Christopher Walken.

Bill And Hillary Cold Open:


Surprise Party:


SNL Digital Short: Laser Cats 3


Meet The Family - Christopher Walken goes to a family reunion.


Weekend Update: Pregnant Man

SNL - Jonah Hill Video Clips

Here are the video clips from the SNL hosted by Jonah Hill (3/15/08)....

Eliot Spitzer Cold Open:


Six Year-Old:


Digital Short: Andy's Dad:


MacGruber: The Bank


MacGruber: Paint Factory


MacGruber! (Jonah Hill)


Really!?! with Seth And Amy:


Tracy Morgan on Update: Black Is The New President:

SNL - Amy Adams Clips

Here are the clips from this past weekend's Saturday Night Live with host Amy Adams:

SNL - Ellen Page Videos

Juno herself hosted SNL this past week. What's weird is I thought the writer's strike was over but you couldn't tell that from this SNL which seemed to just rehashed several elements from last week's show into this week's episode (ie: Hillary endorsement, GOP politician on Weekend Update, Democratic Debate).

Here are the sketches that have been released on the internet for that episode:

The open was very similar to last week's in that it mocked the latest Democratic debate between Obama and Hillary. And then to further show SNL's endorsement of Hillary, like last week (again) when Tina Fey gushed over Hillary, SNL took it a step further and had Hillary on and let her open the show...




The digital short this week (The Mirror), I think was fairly weak...they also seem to become increasingly nonsensical...which sometimes is funny but because it is becoming a reoccurring theme in these digital shorts make them less funny...


The TV Funhouse video was something I thought the show could have actually done as a sketch and be even more funny... Obama pulls out all the stops to keep Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton from 'helping' his campaign...


Guiliani gets a cameo appearance on Weekend Update, like last week with Huckabee, a politician sits in on Weekend Update to make fun of themselves a little bit somewhat humorious...


And Viginiaca, like the Dakota Fanning show, is a reocurring sketch that was never funny, imo, to start out with and yet is continues to be a regular occurring sketch...


Other sketches were The Dakota Fanning Show where Amy Poehler plays Dakota Fanning and basically 'disses' her band leader "Reggie". Page played Hannah Montana and my 12 year old daughter is constantly playing Hannah Montana songs and I couldn't recognize the song "Best Of Both Worlds" that Page sang very badly at the end of this sketch.

College of Excellence sketch was a pretty poor fake late night television commercial in which it will educate you on the best business terms which was basically phrases that involved the word 'file' and ways to redirect blame and questions to someone's assistant.

The Other Boleyn Girls was just a bad sketch that even Jason Sudekis couldn't save...basically starts out with Page as a Boleyn girl trying to get it on with the king (Sudekis) and then being interrupted by another Boleyn girl and repeat with each Boleyn girl becoming more homely until Keenen Thomas is flatly rejected and the sketch basically ends there...

Weekend Update had some moments...along with the Guiliani appearance they had Fred Arminson as a political comedian Nicolas Fehn in which he just rambles off disjointed, incomplete thoughts...mildy amusing but far from funny.


A Peter Pan sketch might have been the best one of the show, imo. Page plays Peter Pan and Captain Hook becomes upset with his crew because instead of killing Peter Pan his crew becomes mesmerized with Peter Pan.

The final sketch was Page returning from a Melissa Ethridge concert where she revels in all the lesbians and their activities rattling off all the classic lesbian stereo-types yet, denying that she has 'turned gay'.

SNL Returns: Tina Fey - Carrie Underwood

After a several month hiatus due to the writer's strike, a new SNL final hit the airwaves this past weekend and to 'ease' back into the show, they asked former writer/cast member Tina Fey back to host the show. Because I don't actually watch the show as it airs, but at a later time - hey, I have stuff to do on Saturday night - and because a sporting event went extremely late in my viewing area, I didn't get to watch the show, instead my DVR has a triple overtime high school hockey championship game and then my late local news...and not SNL... I did check out the clips this morning but I'll have to wait another month or 2 until the rerun airs to catch the entire show. But here's what I did see...

The open was actually pretty funny, mocking the democratic debate in which the media has essentially 'chosen' Barack Obama and is ignoring Hillary...


Tina's monologue, of course, referenced the writer's strike and then Steve Martin makes a cameo to 'liven' up the monologue...


The mock commercial this week was for the product "Annuale" which is a product for women that has them only experience their period once a year...but when they get it, they are crazed beasts...at least more than normally!


The mock show 'lady business' promo really didn't do much for me...seemed more stupid than funny...


The SNL Digital Short featured grandkids in movies and was actually fairly amusing where an elderly person who is easily frightened by things on television but by inserting your grandchildren into the movies and videos, things are more normal for the elderly person...


I'm going to drink your milkshake was the next sketch and I really didn't 'get it'...it had a moment or two, but overall, I didn't think was that amusing at all...but maybe I need to see No Country For Old Men...


Tina Fey had a Weekend Update piece which essentially was a campaign pitch for Hillary Clinton...


And then Mike Huckabee also had an appearance on Weekend Update...and the more I have seen Huckabee on the comedy talk show(s), the more I like him. He has a good sense of humor and isn't scared to laugh at himself.

Again, I missed the show but these are the elements I did get to watch and it doesn't seem like too bad a show with a few sketches that are alright and a few that aren't alright...

Lazy Sunday

(Originally posted 12/21/05)

Just found the video for the Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg SNL rap sketch "Lazy Sunday"...

I think Chris Parnell's raps are pretty good as well as funny...

And most importantly:

Mr. Pibb + Red Vines = Crazy Delicious

UPDATED 12/14/07

NBC has had all of it's videos removed from unauthorized sources and started it's own video service through Hulu.com...which is good/bad. Bad because all my video links that I've posted in the past of SNL sketches are no longer viewable. Good, because hopefully now that I am using their service, they will remain on my blog! Here's a repost of Lazy Sunday...

SNL: Brian Williams

Yes, I know I am behind in reviewing the Brian Wiliams SNL episode...but with last week's episode being a rerun with Bon Jovi and the writer's strike in full swing, odds are we will be seeing plenty of reruns for a while...also, because local programming went long and my DVR stopped recording at midnight, I did miss the last 15, 20 minutes of the show...

But, overall, I think the Brian Williams show has likely been the best SNL of the season so far... none of the sketches were insanely funny, but they also weren't just stupid, which is what many sketches are.

Of course the show started with an Amy Poehler as Hillary Halloween sketch. Pretty unfunny and to insure it not ever being funny, ended with Barack Obama getting to say "Live From New York..." to kick the show off.

Williams monologue was alright, as he mocked his appearance of being a news man reading words off a teleprompter, they show you that he is a news man reading words off a teleprompter...

Maybelline for men...a fake commercial that is trying to increase makeups demographic by 50% by appealing to men. The commercials this season have all been not very good, including this one.

I was actually somewhat impressed at Williams' performance...playing the fireman character during Bronx Beat wasn't too bad and it seemed almost natural for Williams. I think I've mentioned this before, but does Amy Poehler have to be in every sketch? Bronx Beat has been done before... in fact, I enjoyed it better when it involved Adam Sandler and Jay Mohr and part of the show was a give away (like free dinner at a steakhouse) if you gave the fink of the week (or something like that) 'a beating'.

Next up was a Publisher's Clearing House prize give-away sketch where the entire sketch is Kristen Wiig providing the humor as Brian Williams is an excitable, mult-million dollar winner. The sketch seemed a little too long and after a while, it just seemed as if Wiig was a little over-exaggerating to the point of not being funny...there is a fine line between just the right amount of physical comedy for a sketch and over-the-top. Wiig was precariously close to over-the top.

The SNL Digital Short was a look at a 'typical' day for Brian Williams. Although many of the gags in the short seemed predictable - like Williams leaving an encouraging message to someone but is actually left for himself to listen to at the conclusion of the day - but was still pretty good. Having Williams throwing pennies out of his window at Matt Lauer and Al Roker was likely the highpoint of the sketch.

The Weekend Update was fairly unmemorable... Armison did have a somehwhat funny bit about the writer's strike... we producers make $20 million and the writers make $200,000, we are not sure if they can find anywhere in the middle... I admit that I am not fully informed as to the exact numbers involved in the writer's dispute, but this sketch did seem to best simplify the situation...the writers are getting screwed and want to get some residual money from continued profits from their created content...seems fair to me...

There was a quick iPhone spoof which wasn't too bad and the last sketch I got to see was a democratic debate sketch that didn't have Hillary or Obama featured in it, but essentially all the 'losers' sitting around talking about how they were going to attack Hillary. Overall a pretty weak sketch.

According to the episode recap, I missed one sketch and the musical act Feist...which means I probably didn't miss much but will have to wait for the rerun in a week or two to catch the final minutes.

As a final comment on Brian Williams' performance, I had read that he would do his nightly news each night and then work with the SNL crew almost all night for the week leading up to his show. I think he really wanted to put forth his best effort and I think he did really well.

NBC is no longer posting clips of their shows on YouTube, so to get videos of the episodes is a little tougher and rumor is that NBC is going to provide the clips again but using their own site rather than YouTube. But I did find a couple of clips, enjoy them while you can...

SNL 2007 Season: 3 Episodes, Watch Them Again

The only bright spot with me being a little bit busy here lately is that I haven't had to use any of my spare time to watch any new SNL's lately. Is this how network shows operate these days? Have 3 new episodes to start out the season and then repeat all three episodes again? I am almost confident we will see these same episodes at least one more time this season...seems extremely weak to me.

SNL: Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi hosted this last week's SNL and I was surprised to hear/see that the Foo Fighters were booked as the musical guest...so that means only one thing...lots of music and fewer sketches than normal because Bon Jovi was sure to perform at least once, if not more, along with the Foo Fighters.

The show starts out with, guess what, an Amy Poehler sketch. It is a 'flashback' sketch to the 1980's and Amy dreaming about Bon Jovi and John magically appearing in her bedroom to give her words of advice about the future. Isn't this just a rehash of the Seth Rogan monologue except now it is an actual sketch? The writers of this show are lazy and lazier.

John comes out for his monologue, which as anyone could have guessed, which was just a transparent intro to Bon Jovi playing a song...must have new album out, huh? Richie Sambora fucked up his one line...Bon Jovi did cover it well. What is ironic about this monologue is that it begins with Bon Jovi stating how he was only on the show for the comic/acting part and not for any musical portion, yet in less than 2 minutes they are performing a tune.

Then was what is becoming a SNL staple, an unfunny, mock gameshow. I'll give this one credit, it wasn't as unfunny as other recent mock game shows, but still, not funny.

Then was Darrell Hammond as Al Gore in Gore's 'trophy room'. This sketch was really lame and got old quick. It begins with Al showing all his awards he received from his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth" and goes on to show all the awards that Al won that didn't involve the movie...which were immunization records, a participation award for punt, pass and kick as well as O.J. Simpson's Heisman Trophy that he bought. Overall, pretty boring... I have really tired of SNL's attempts at mocking politicians.

Andy Samberg's digital short "People Getting Punched Just Before Eating" was probably the best item in this last week's SNL, even though the ending was pretty lame. And I continue to say that this is Samberg's best stuff and they should just relugate Samberg to his digital shorts just as it seems as if the only time you see Seth Meyers now is on Weekend Update.



The Vinny Vedecci sketch, which was on last season and not funny, makes an appearance in this episode and still lame. It is just a sketch where they can allow the host who is pimping a new album, movie or show be 'themselves' and Vinny (Bill Hader) speaks Italian and lack of comedy ensues.

Weekend Update was nothing spectacular. Maya Rudolph had a part as a 'immigrant' that was to become a new writer due to an impending strike. If there is indeed a writer's strike on SNL, I doubt it could get worse with any fill-in writers.

Iconoclasts sketch seemed like it would have a funny premise and I actually liked Kristen Wiig as Bjork but Keneen Thompson in any sketch is almost a buzzkill right there, and it just didn't pan out. Again, Wiig as Bjork was mildly entertaining and then after her setup, Thompson's line would kill any momentum the sketch had.

I did enjoy Jason Sudekis as Dane Cook mocking the MLB Playoff promos. Just short and ridiculous enough to make you laugh...and maybe short enough is the key here! Sudekis is probably the funniest guy on the show that gets any consistent airtime.

The final sketch of the night was almost as obvious as it gets...making fun of how the band named itself Bon Jovi. Again, fairly unfunny and seemed as if the show was just trying to fill time in between Bon Jovi songs and Weekend Update.

The show then concludes with, yes, a Bon Jovi song. The Foo Fighters got to play one song and Bon Jovi had 2 songs...why even book a musical act unless your intention is to give the writers a week off.

SNL, Seth Rogan

This season's second SNL seemed a bit better than it's premiere...maybe because it didn't have any carry-over sketches and had an actor as the host...but still nothing too hilarious happened this week either.

The show started off with Andy Samberg as K-Fed...as one could have almost guessed. I don't particularly like Samberg overall but do give him credit when he plays a wigger-like character such as K-Fed.


Rogan's monologue wasn't anything special...him reading a monologue he composed when he was 13 because he knew he would one day be hosting SNL...


The 'commercial' this week was about a 3D Ultra-sound which played on the idea where a man needs to view content on state-of-the-art display with high-def, 3d and picture-in-picture. The spot was mildly amusing but I wouldn't say side-splitting funny.


Next up was the 2007 Douchebag Championships which was a sketch that's sole purpose was to highlight Amy Poehler as Sharon Osbourne, Fred Arminson as Gene Simmons and Andy Samberg as the reigning Douchebag champion. Each of the characters was mildly amusing because of the characters each of the actors/actresses played was over the top.

There were several "MacGruber' spots placed throughout the show and I have to admit that I liked the previous MacGruber spots when MacGruber and his team's demise came because they would squabble over an item that MacGruber needed to defuse the detonator...this week, it was MacGruber trying to over-come a mid-life crisis in each episode that prevented the team from reaching safety... not quite as funny, but for being a short, quick to the point sketch, they are mildly entertaining.


Seth Rogan and Kristin Wiig played dorky twins in the next sketch...apparently the 'funny' part of this sketch was Kristin say "I said we!" I thought this sketch was lame and lamer...


Darrell Hammond then had a solo bit playing Fred Thompson. I've kind of grown bored with these type of sketches...the premiere had Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton and now Fred Thompson...making fun of politicians is easy, but to merely write up a comical monologue that seems to reiterate the same jokes throughout doesn't seem that funny to me anymore.

Weekend Update was next and it was up and down...a cameo by Chevy Chase had him doing a bit on politics and his shtick doesn't seem as witty or good as it was, oh let's say, 30 years ago. Of course he got a tremendous ovation from the crowd but what he did after that ovation surely didn't warrant the thunderous applause. I do enjoy the Really?!? With Seth And Amy portion of the Weekend Update, the interview with Mets manager and GM was lame...


America's First Colonists was the next sketch which basically was a sketch about how a colony in early America vanished because their founder Jack Stone (I do believe) met with the Indians and was introduced to pot...so the whole sketch was about the colony all becoming a bunch of stoners and thus, not having enough food for the winter. Pot-humor can be done better.

Then was maybe the best sketch of the night...maybe not the funniest, but I think the best... Seth Rogan played Rawlf the dog and Andy Samberg played the Swedish Chef, both of Muppet fame. I don't know if I have ever seen a parody of the Muppets done with actors/actresses but this was done real well. They did a song together, complete with Animal on drums (Bill Hader) and the saxophone and hippie chick.


The show wrapped up with sketch about the old-time southerners where Seth Rogan is Mad Joe and Maya Rudolph is a southern bell... the whole sketch was Rogan's character talking about how he cools off his balls... nothing extremely hilarious here...

The musical act was Spoon, who I knew nothing about. They weren't too bad but really didn't do anything that made me want to listen to them more.

SNL Season Premiere, 2007-08 Season

Something I mentioned at the end of last year's season, I think a regular feature on my blog will be critiquing Saturday Night Live. What are my credentials for this? Well, I've seen every episode of SNL... starting in 1980 I would either watch live (or taped) each and every week and in the early 80's (I think it was WGN) the early years of SNL were reran nightly which I watched religiously as well. There is no question that SNL has had it's ups and downs with it primarily being a down time right now... But let's get on with it...

The season premiere of SNL featured LeBron James as host and Kanye West as the musical guest. SNL has often had athletes and other non-acting/comedians as their hosts and for the most part, these episodes are forgettable and this was no exception. The show has to try and fit the non-funny, non-actor into their sketches which a person can tell that the sketch was written to work around the host. The opening sketch was Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton stating how she will be elected president next year... I didn't find it too funny but more a statement about what New Yorkers and network television have already determined to be fact...so it was more making fun of the popular sentiment of this country... Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton was the only part that was mildly humorous.


LeBron then comes out to do his monologue which was not-funny and went to a pre-taped segment to give LeBron a short time in front of the cameras alone.


Angry Dog Food was the first of this year's mock commercials, which are oftentimes the best part of the show...this one was mildly amusing when showing the rabid dogs, especially the smaller dogs, but overall, not funny.

Then a came Kristin Wiigs 'lying' character. This sketch just reminds of the John Lovitz character/sketch where he would lie...'Yeah, that's the ticket and I'm married to Morgan Fairchild!" In the '80's and I was in my teens I thought it was funny...now 20 years later I think this sketch is lame and weak. They had this character on several episodes last year and I thought all were extremely lame...the show seems to try and work more of Kristin Wiig into the show, like her Target checkout lady as well but both these characters are not even amusing to me...just the same joke over and over and over and over and over again...boring.


A promo for High School Musical 3 was SNL's next offering. Not even memorable... I don't think I found any part of that sketch even remotely funny.


Then came Andy Samberg's pet project, the SNL digital short of him singing a song about his affection towards the Iranian president (I am too lazy to look up how to spell his name). The SNL digital shorts with Samberg are hit and miss and I think Samberg should just be relegated to that portion of the show because most of his characters within the sketches are lame. But this SNL short was a miss for me... the lyrics seemed to repeat far too often and the entire song seemed too long. Half way through the video I was saying...Ok, I get it, what's next?

Then came the Lyle Kane sketch which is a dorky white guy (Will Forte) hosting a lame talk show on BET. If this sketch was just to make LeBron look like a dork, it succeeded. If it was trying to be funny...it failed.

Weekend Update, again another segment that oftentimes can make the episode at least worthy of watching because Seth Meyers is in it, was really forgettable. I was surprised to see that Amy Poehler cut her hair, the first sign of a woman thinking to herself that she wants to be respected for her mind rather than her body...not sure if that was totally the case there Amy. Keneen Thompson as O.J. - not funny and a total waste of time as was the 'interview' with the Iranian president (again, too lazy).

The Best Of Solid Gold was a mock commercial that featured the Solid Gold Dancers... I give it the same critique as the Lyle Kane show...that if the objective of this sketch was to make LeBron look like a dork and now like a fag, they succeeded. I did smile when LeBron had a huge cape that he would open to reveal the rest of the Solid Gold Dancers and then close again around them after they concluded a song...but that didn't make up for the rest of the sketch.

The Ambiguously Gay Duo was the Saturday TV Funhouse episode and these typically have been my favorite TV Funhouse characters but like the rest of this show, it failed to deliver. Usually there is more innuendo involving Ace and Gary being gay whereas this episode had them only playing charades and wagging their asses at each other...not really funny at all.

106 & Park was just a vehicle for Kanye West to 'seriously' answer questions about him pouting at various award shows and then to make fun of himself... The set for this sketch looked extremely close to the set that Deephouse Dish took place on and hopefully, since Deephouse Dish didn't happen it is the last we've seen of Deephouse Dish.


And somewhere in here is the PSA sketch featuring LeBron and Jason Sudekis as a crew member for the PSA that 'played high school ball' and after doing his best to try and sabatoge LeBron's performance by throwing the basketball at LeBron's head, he and LeBron go one-on-one with LeBron giving Jason a fore-arm shiver. If any sketch had any potential out of the show it was this one...why? Because LeBron seemed relax, didn't have to play character and Sudekis' character is funny.

The show wraps up with Jason Sudekis being a guidance counselor for LeBron James as a high schooler. I thought Sudekis was good, and LeBron had few lines. The sketch was pretty obvious, LeBron was seeing his guidance counselor about whether or not he should go to college or enter the NBA draft. Sudekis proceeds to tell LeBron that if he wanted a diploma he sell his to him.

Sudekis, Hammond and Meyers are the best actors on SNL and seem to get the least amount of airtime. Amy Poehler, who last season seemed to be in every freakin' sketch, only was in a few this first episode. She has some good characters but none in this episode. She did play Dakota Fanning in the 106 & Park sketch, but that was a bit part.

Kanye West, I couldn't give 2 shits about so I fast-forwarded over much of his two performances on the show.

Overall this episode is unfortunately carrying on the trend from last season...that is almost totally sucking. There really wasn't one part of the show that I felt was humorous and SNL shows have usually had at lest one sketch or element that was worth viewing. But, possibly on the bright side, with this first show being a total bomb, imo, they can't get too much worse...can they?

Really?!?

When Michael Vick was busted with marijuana last year SNL had a pretty good segment during their Weekend Update... his dog-fighting happenings all happened while SNL was on vacation over the summer so hopefully a follow-up segment is in order... and if you missed the first one, here it is...

Saturday Night Live

Something I should start doing, just for my own amusement, would be to review SNL...and I just might start doing that...for you see, since I was young, I have watched Saturday Night Live and have formed an 'instant opinion' of each show...some good, some bad. Having said that, I did watch the Sunday night special regarding Saturday Night Live in the 90's. The special itself wasn't too bad, but I really didn't care for the shortening of the skits...and not that they were shortened but that they were too short. If they wanted to show an abbreviated sketch, that's fine...but to show just a quick snippet only has the viewer wanting to see more. The show itself was interviews with people that would reminiscence about each season of SNL in the 90's and was essentially a 'look at how great SNL is' type show. Which leads me to my primary theory, that SNL of late is crappy. But as this show pointed out, in 1994-95 SNL had some of its lowest ratings ever and you look at the cast and it had Adam Sandler, David Spade, Cris Farley, Phil Hartmen, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey and Cris Rock. An overt move to guilt people into turning SNL back on because you don't want to miss any potential star developing on SNL. Watching SNL lately, there might be one or 2 funny sketches in the entire show with the rest being lame. And after watching this retrospective one of my initial impressions was that this was a clear attempt to try and bolster SNL ratings for next season because I find it hard to believe that people were entertained watching this past season of SNL.

1-10-07 Headlines

Dems in power, universal health care sought again. Is it me? Or does it seem like anytime the Democrats get into power the first 'issue' they run too is universal health care. The out of touch, disconnected politician this time is Ted Kennedy. If these morons knew how much health care costs the average American they would realize it is an impossible dream to have quality care for everyone. How about starting off with making it affordable? No, that's not good enough for pie-in-the sky politicians...

Ripken and Gwynn make the Hall Of Fame but McGwire not even close. In what seems as some justice...for now...Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn both get elected to the Hall Of Fame. But what is the story is the fact that Mark McGwire got less than 24% of hof votes (needing 75%) to make it in. This is why the whole steroid era sucks. First of all the fact that two really good ball players, and both seemingly decent fellows, getting voted to the Hall Of Fame but they are not really be talked about, it is the fact that a steroid user didn't make it...that is the headline. Next, how long will the roid-boys be snubbed? Some have said that the hof voters are purposely 'sitting' McGwire for a few years but that as time goes on, they will likely change their mind and vote him in eventually. To me, that is just plain lame. Voting him eventually is all that he (and Pete Rose and Barry Bonds and the rest of the cheaters) is really hoping for, to be immortalized in the baseball Hall Of Fame and he was willing to cheat to make sure that happens. MLB becomes a bigger joke every day.

Coughlin to remain as Giants head coach. All I've heard on the sports talk scene since the Giants lost to Philadelphia is how Tom Coughlin must and will be fired at the end of this season. All season long he has had players criticize him and I thought he would be happy to leave...but apparently the rumor is that he is going to remain.

The Australian Open starts next week. Always billed as the 'First Major Sports Event Of The Year', tennis' Australian Open begins play next week. A really nice event if you are out late on the weekends and get home at 1 in the morning and want to watch a live sporting event. Otherwise you will watch reruns of matches you already know the results for...which is why this might be the suckiest major sport event of the year.

Senior Al-Qaida chief might be dead. So has America successfully killed every Al-Quida member except Osama Bin Laden then? Seems like it..

Football rules the ratings. The Saturday night Cowboys-Seahawks wild card game during prime time was the highest rated wild card game in history... wonder how long it will be until the NFL has their playoffs exclusively during primetime? Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday for the first two rounds would be my guess...