At Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:12:42 Stewart wrote:

>>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.

I did not know that....I stand corrected.

>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.

Personally, some of the funniest moments on SNL were delivered by Eddie 
Murphy -- the "Buckwheat" send-ups were priceless. I recently saw the one 
where Joe Piscapo did Frank Sinatra to Murphy's Stevie Wonder doing "Ebony 
And Ivory". Crass. Tasteless. Funny as hell. And Murphy nails Wonder's 
singing.


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