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Any SNL watchers still here?

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Any SNL watchers still here? #1
Posted: 3/13/19 at 4:04pm
Anyone still watch this show every week? Or every new episode at least? Always been a massive SNL fan. Admittedly, not the best season this season but we shall see. They just announced their next slate of shows. Sandra Oh w/ Tame Impala, Kit Harrington/Sara Bereilles, and Emma Stone/BTS. Should be a fun month!
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Posted: 3/13/19 at 5:06pm

I still watch every week. It's hit or miss but I usually find a few skits from every episode that I find funny.

I thought John Mulaney's recent turn as host was great. Loved the bodega sketch.

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Posted: 3/13/19 at 6:02pm

Been a steady viewer since the " Not Ready For Prime Time Player" Occ work meant I had to miss an episode but still pretty faithful.  the ones w John Mulcahey  have been some of the best IMO

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Posted: 3/13/19 at 6:48pm

We've become more faithful viewers again now that they've started airing new episodes at 8:30pm here on the west coast (I guess to honor the LIVE part of SNL). Usually we manage to hang on through Weekend Update (by far our favorite sequence week in and week out), then fall asleep well before the final cast hugs. 

With the Vulture recaps we can usually watch all the good sketches we slept through the night before.

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Posted: 3/14/19 at 9:16am

I've been watching since 1975 when it was first called NBC's Saturday Night. It was an odd show at first, almost amateurish. But it quickly became watercooler talk and very popular. Outstanding cast and skits — Samurai DryCleaners (Samuari anything actually)... Unsafe Christmas Toys... Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger... Pepsi. Belushi, Aykroyd, Chase, Radner. When Andy Kaufman was on he shook things up for audiences, making SNL truly cutting edge.

Then a malaise and some bad years, boring. But loved the jolt Eddie Murphy, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Adam Sandler, Jimmy Fallon, and Tina Fey brought to the game.

Currently, Alec Baldwin is doing an amusing Trump. But right now the show is more or less in a malaise again because of a less than stellar cast. I tape episodes now and skim through them. While I am a John Mulaney fan (saw Oh, Hello on Broadway twice), I thought he raced through his monologue too quickly and the show was dull except for the Bodega skit, which was fun.



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