I must be getting old.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

I, for the life of me, can NOT find SNL funny anymore. Even the Weekend Update is losing it for me. The bands are, for the most part, eh.

I guess I just ain't up with what the youngsters find funny now.

[olddots]

1. me two

and it seems like they make 5 shows a year and repeat them every other week .I think the talent is good but the producer should have been put out to pasture 30 years ago but he is too big and rich to fail so the show sucks because he owns it.

we are just wise (okay we are old and wise )

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Hush, child.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

4. "Child? CHILD?!"

[hopemountain]

3. the californicators are

very stupid...but funny. my daughter and can't stop laughing the next day about some of the lines, eye rolls, facial expressions, names of the freeways, exits and streets, & roads. but then, we know people who live that scene - which makes it hilarious.

it will be interesting to see the transition with some of my favs leaving: armisen, meyers, etc.

[femmocrat]

5. I can't understand what the hell they are saying.

Yes... I think the show will be even worse without those veterans. But I guess new ones will take their places, just like previous turnovers.

[hopemountain]

33. confession

i can't understand them either - i just get the names of the fwys, streets, and "burrito" every now and then.

[bigwillq]

6. Ugh. I hate that skit (nt)

[hopemountain]

32. lol... humorous because i do know a few people

in cali who are that shallow and speak the same way :snort: it's either from the heat & fumes rising up from the freeway asphalt or brain damage from toxic bleaching and tanning agents.

[Bertha Venation]

7. I don't want to date you

But I will date myself. The Not Ready for Prime Time Players were IT. Full stop.

[Glorfindel]

9. You're right, as always, dear Bertha

[Bertha Venation]

11. :)

[Flashmann]

8. I, for the life of me, can NOT find SNL funny anymore.

I'm older...

Last time I found SNL funny,Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman were regular cast members.

[mucifer]

10. But, Tina Fey did make a great Sarah Palin.

I was watching those clips online. I don't like watching the show.

[graham4anything]

17. and Jon Lovitz, yeah, that's the ticket.

[csziggy]

26. I'm older than that

I quit watching before any of those people came on the show.

[Flashmann]

28. I'm older than that

LOL...The time since Phil Hartman was on SNL is not my age. I was 24-25 when it first aired...

[csziggy]

29. We're about the same age, then

I quit watching about the time the original cast left. Some of them I had enjoyed when they were on Second City...

[Flashmann]

30. We're about the same age, then

Maybe...I'm a 1953 model.
Yeah,SCTV was the best!!!...I watched SNL IF I was home,because nothing better was on the other TWO channels. But yeah,before Carvey and company left I'd had my fill.The times I've caught 2-3 minutes here or there,in the years since,were 2-3 minutes wasted...Every time.
It's probably still funny and hip if you're high school-college age.

[csziggy]

31. Oh, heck - I've got a year on you. 1952 model here.

I never watched much of the Carvey period, in fact, looking at the history of the show, I quit watching regularly about the time Lorne Michaels left (1980).

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. It's seemed especially flat since around the time Amy Poehler left.

That ended a great run of female performers.

[backwoodsbob]

13. same here

I don't even bother to record it anymore

If I'm up and nothing better is on I watch but...mmmeeehhh

[Arugula Latte]

14. I wouldn't know. I fall asleep ten minutes into it.

[baldguy]

15. SNL hasn't been funny for 20 yrs.

They might have one skit a week that's worth it, if they're lucky.

[Moondog]

22. Longer than that. Much longer.

[loli phabay]

16. snl? never seen it, what channel

[Lady Freedom Returns]

20. Never seen Saturday Night Live?

Your not missing much as of late.

Comes on NBC.

[loli phabay]

21. oh the initials threw me, and no ive never seen it.

[nolabear]

18. I like some of it. I'll miss Seth and Bill Hader. They need to get gutsy again, though.

I'm not sure why they got cautious but they seem to have swapped timely satire for creating ongoing, often unsuccessful characters for the players, as if they're throwing them at the wall in the hope of finding some that stick.

I like some of the musical acts as well, but often not.

So maybe I'm half old.

[Paulie]

19. Not since the Gerald Ford pratfalls

And Samuri Deli. Or Swill. Or Bass-o-matic.

Edit: Or Colon Blow.

[csziggy]

27. Puppy Uppers and Doggy Downers!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4136

[nomorenomore08]

23. Hell, if you ask me it's even declined since the turn of the millennium.

But considering I was just a kid then, my sense of humor wasn't exactly the most discriminating...

[Aristus]

24. I don't know if this makes you older than me, LFR, or younger, but,

I haven't watched the show on a regular basis in decades.

And I don't miss it...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

25. Well...

I'm 35 going on 100. And for a while now the show itself sucked. But I always got a smile out of the Weekend update. That it till recently. Since the start of this season, it is blah.