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| From | "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com> |
| Subject | Re: SNL |
| Date | Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:50:33 -0500 |
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> From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
>> Why? The current cast is the strongest one they've had since I was a
>> teenager (the Myers/Carvey/Hartman era, my pick for the best and most
>> consistent period), has more strong female members than it's ever had
>> before, and the show invariably has at least a couple of utterly
>> hilarious sketches per episode.
The news segment is unwatchable - Tina Fey is a pretty funny person but has
a horrible habit of mumbling past the punch line (something Jay Leno started
to do more of when he took over TONIGHT - he didn't do it as much as a
stand up comic...but I digress). Jimmy Fallon was worse next to her but Amy
Poehler mugs as much or more than he did.
>> Speaking of DVD releases, I would love to see Shout! Factory release
>> box sets of the early SNL seasons, because it would put paid to one of
>> the biggest ongoing TV myths: the first five years of SNL were AT
>> LEAST as uneven as any seasons since, and quite often descended into
>> absolute crap. Seeing these episodes distilled into 30- or 60-minute
>> packages has caused people to forget the 30 to 60 minutes of garbage
>> that have been excised. Well, that and the usual boomer nostalgia.
Your nostalgia will suck just as hard, young Skywalker.
There isn't an era that was seamlessly brilliant, but the first five years
is as fondly remembered for the pure shock value (are they actually doing
that?? ON TV???) as it was for the writing/performing (which was pretty
solid, drug haze aside). But despite my fondness for that era, I think Phil
Hartman was the best thing that ever happened to the show - Ackroyd is a
close second, and Farley, Carvey and Myers were way up there too. Fallon is
not at the bottom - he'd have to dig under Sandler, Downey and Hall (A.M.)
for that.
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