tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18024118.post116028151025298196..comments2023-11-29T20:12:15.814-05:00Comments on Citizen 1,235,824: Saturday Night Live: Why Bother Anymore?Sean Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703508034749435266noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18024118.post-1162196686264233912006-10-30T03:24:00.000-05:002006-10-30T03:24:00.000-05:00long time reader, first time caller. hi, sean!yeah...long time reader, first time caller. hi, sean!<BR/><BR/>yeah, SNL has pretty much been irrelevant since eddie murphy left. and it hasn't been amusing since phil hartman died (was he still on the show at that point?).<BR/><BR/>studio 60 is well-written amd wel-meaing, but it still fails miserably... all the drama of the backstage part of the show is utterly negated by the fact the pieces of the "show" that we see are painfully unfunny and irrelevant. if you're going to base a weekly series around a the production of a comedy show, you must first be funny. all the earnestness in the world will not make me laugh if there's no punchline. maybe they could hire some actual sketch comedy writers?<BR/><BR/>i haven't seen 30 rock, so i can't comment.<BR/><BR/>BTW -- you are spot on about the new who. i finally caught the eccleston season of "dr who" on netflix and seen bits and pieces of the tennant season on sci-fi, and they are awesome.<BR/><BR/>i am assuming you have discovered the glory that is the new battlestar galactica.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18024118.post-1160418263234590472006-10-09T14:24:00.000-04:002006-10-09T14:24:00.000-04:00Good points about Lorne Michaels. My favorite year...Good points about Lorne Michaels. My favorite year was 1984-85, before he came back. Lots of people who were either already famous, or had a good track record. <BR/><BR/>I think I'm going to just stop watching completely. I'm giving up. I didn't know Michaels' owns it all, so you're right, what's the point?Sean Tubbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12703508034749435266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18024118.post-1160336381368348962006-10-08T15:39:00.000-04:002006-10-08T15:39:00.000-04:00Maybe it's also nostalgia for the times when it WA...Maybe it's also nostalgia for the times when it WAS funny... we kind of skim off the top of the crap glass of SNL, remembering when...<BR/><BR/>Kind of like eating a Twizzler, pretending it's real licorice. You eat it as if it can substitute, knowing it can, but the whole packet's gone.<BR/><BR/>Lorne needs to go. <BR/><BR/>Loved the Sisypuss metaphor.Amy-Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14949703896486202906noreply@blogger.com