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Originally Posted by GGG
How many skits of SNL do you remember.
It’s always been more meh than hilarious. There are also periods in your life where whatever the SNL cast was you liked them and as your generation of cast aged out it was the doldrums. While it does ebb and flow I think people aging in and out and back in to SNL is a greater factor than any measure of real quality could be.
This same argument of SNL isn’t as good as it used to be has been made repeatedly.
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I've found that SNL's detractors look at the show completely incorrectly.
It's sketch comedy where there's a two week cycle to come up with new stuff to make a wide demographic laugh for 90 minutes. You want a balance of evergreen and topical material. Live. This is an
incredibly difficult task.
I liken it to baseball where you're a star if you hit 30% of the time.
The beauty of baseball and SNL is in how much you fail. You celebrate the hits in the minority of moments when you can.
To have a pop culture icon like SNL exist with this type of ability to fail with wide viewship is incredibly rare.
Go back to your favorite era of SN when it was 'better'. I miss Chris Farley. But if you pick a rando Chris Farley episode, at least half the sketches are complete duds.
It's pretty much always been that way with some peaks and valleys.