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SNL Isn't Getting Any Better..... (Original Post)
global1
16 hrs ago
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LetMyPeopleVote
(175,895 posts)1. I agree
Tonight was weak
Doodley
(11,720 posts)2. It's an exercise in being obnoxious.
IcyPeas
(25,002 posts)3. They've only been on for 50 years... give them time...
Aussie105
(7,682 posts)4. Like walking on the edge of a giant toilet bowl.
Sometimes it is risqué, sometimes it is funny, and sometimes . . . they just fall in.
The sketch ideas inventors and script writers are trying their best, bless them!
Don't mind watching it at times, but haven't seen the latest.
MIButterfly
(2,230 posts)5. I only tune in to watch Weekend Update.
At the risk of sounding like an old fuddy-duddy, the hosts and musical guests are usually people I never heard of and the rest of the show isn't all that funny to me. I even forgot to watch it last night. Looks like I didn't miss anything............
global1
(26,447 posts)6. They Need To Rename It From SNL To IPT.....
In poor taste.
Time for Lorne Michael's to hang it up.
I can see why he lost so much talent this last year.