----- Original Message ----- From: "Jaimie Vernon" >> I also find that many of the actors >>are so one dimensional. That goes for >>all seasons. No matter who Martin Short >>was playing I felt like I was watching Ed >>Grimley. > > Chalk it up to the writers and Lorne Michael's desperation. Short > was parachuted into SNL with his Ed Grimley as a means to save > another bad season of SNL. Two things: the Martin Short season happened while Dick Ebersol was running the show -- Lorne Michaels had nothing to do with SNL between 1980 and 1985. Also, most fans of the show (including me) consider the Martin Short/Chris Guest/Billy Crystal season one of the better ones. Whenever I hear someone go on about awful this cast or that cast is, I'm reminded of the fact that people have been saying this since the second season: according to Tom Shales' oral history (which is really good read if you're into this sort of thing), when Chevy Chase left and was replaced by Bill Murray, people went ON and ON about how awful the new guy was, to the point that Murray eventually wrote a sketch about how he wasn't fitting in and no one liked him. I'm also reminded of the fact that I saw the 1985-86 season, the one with Robert Downey Jr and Anthony Michael Hall. I don't care what people say about the last few seasons, NOTHING can be as bad as that crap. S