My feed is overwhelmingly saying Burr was terrible on SNL last night, but I haven't watched it yet but have it on my PVR, and plan to watch later. I'm a big Bill Burr fan, so I'm probably biased, but I thought the opening set was good. Definitely not even close to his best sets, but some funny stuff in there.
His set was meh. But Burrs whole thing is to say something silly that makes everyone quiet and awkward until that’s funny, kinda hard in a short monologue like that. Him and Bargatze both I felt seems uncharacteristicly nervous during their recent monologues. It’s supposed to feel
More like a show intro and comedians doing just a few pieces from their most recent set usually doesn’t work as well.
Everything else was great though. Rorschach, the bald musical, Buffalo Wild Wings. I thought it was all pretty good.
I've never really been a fan of stand-ups coming out and just doing their act to start the show. It seems to happen a lot more in recent years whenever a stand-up hosts. I prefer the monologue to show something different from the host.
I always enjoy the "Real Bostonian" commercials. I looked up their previous ones, and was surprised to see the first one wasn't with Burr but was actually Casey Affleck for Dunkin. The second one was Burr with the Sam Adams Pumpkin Spice beer. The recurring character is actually Mikey Day in a Patriots hat and high-vis vest. He was Affleck's friend in the first one and Burr's son in the next two.
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Burr's standup is so basic. No good setups, long themes, just him hyuk'ing at his own predictable jokes, hoping if he walks the offensive line close enough, he'll get a few laughs. He's just not a great comedian. He's fine acting in the skits he doesn't write himself.
I've never really been a fan of stand-ups coming out and just doing their act to start the show. It seems to happen a lot more in recent years whenever a stand-up hosts. I prefer the monologue to show something different from the host.
I always enjoy the "Real Bostonian" commercials. I looked up their previous ones, and was surprised to see the first one wasn't with Burr but was actually Casey Affleck for Dunkin. The second one was Burr with the Sam Adams Pumpkin Spice beer. The recurring character is actually Mikey Day in a Patriots hat and high-vis vest. He was Affleck's friend in the first one and Burr's son in the next two.
I loved the Bill Burr's cast had a Quebec Nordiques logo on it.
We're unlikely to ever get the backstory... but at least I have a question if I ever get a chance to meet him.
One of my favorite comedians.
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SNL has been pretty bad for years. I’ve tuned in a handful of times in recent years and it’s always been cringey. Back in the day everyone was made fun of and was pretty ruthless. Now it’s the same silly targets and is pretty heavily one sided political. It’s pretty predictable. The actors aren’t too funny as characters either. It really should be a once a month show to focus on quality.
SNL has been pretty bad for years. I’ve tuned in a handful of times in recent years and it’s always been cringey. Back in the day everyone was made fun of and was pretty ruthless. Now it’s the same silly targets and is pretty heavily one sided political. It’s pretty predictable. The actors aren’t too funny as characters either. It really should be a once a month show to focus on quality.
It's just been a few years of a thin cast which happens every so often as seasoned people cycle out. Some strong players have left in the past 3-5 seasons.
The new three cast members are very forgettable. They need to add 3-4 good talented cast in the next season or so. And while it's always been political, that side of it has been pretty weak sauce I think since Jost and Che took over head writing. They're just not very political people compared to their predecessors, Meyers and Fey.
I'm hoping Fey takes over for Michaels after season 50 and it gets some new life.
SNL has been pretty bad for years. I’ve tuned in a handful of times in recent years and it’s always been cringey. Back in the day everyone was made fun of and was pretty ruthless. Now it’s the same silly targets and is pretty heavily one sided political. It’s pretty predictable. The actors aren’t too funny as characters either. It really should be a once a month show to focus on quality.
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.
I don’t think it would be better monthly. If you ran tests on audiences and cut and added and modified based on response you could make it better but that would lose what makes it fun and it no longer would be the same show.
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SNL has been pretty bad for years. I’ve tuned in a handful of times in recent years and it’s always been cringey. Back in the day everyone was made fun of and was pretty ruthless. Now it’s the same silly targets and is pretty heavily one sided political. It’s pretty predictable. The actors aren’t too funny as characters either. It really should be a once a month show to focus on quality.
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2020-2022 SNL lost: Aidy Bryant, Kate MacKinnon, Cecily Strong, Alex Moffat, Vanessa Villasenor, Chris Redd, Pete Davidson, Kyle Mooney, Leslie Jones and Beck Bennett.
You can like or not like any of them but it's a lot of seasoned players, with a few all-timers. And 2017-2020 Lost Moynahan, Jones, Killam, Pharaoh and Bayer.
With Keenan being an outlier, the current new crop is Sherman, Yang, Gardiner, Hernandez and Fineman. Nwodem, Johnson, and Desmukes have their moments. The rest have a lot of ground to gain fast or they'll get replaced. It's just a paper thin cast with really just 2 standouts in Sherman and Yang (IMO).
SNL has always had waves and has never been shy about replacing cast members. I hope it keeps going regardless of if it's in a lull or not. To me it's like the news, or the weather, it just belongs on TV. It's a pretty remarkable thing Michaels created from scratch and has kept alive for 1/2 a century.
Watched the new Jason Reitman movie Saturday Night, which follows the 90 minutes leading up to the very first airing of SNL in 1975. It's really well done, very funny, and the casting is spot-on for the most part.
Only caught part of the show this weekend, but the Gladiator 2 musical was hilarious.
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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.
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.
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Two week cycle? They meet the host on Monday and pitch sketch ideas. IIRC, they work all night Tuesday and Wednesday to have scripts ready for table reads. Then, they do re-writes right up to going live Saturday. It is amazing how much they do in 5 days, and you wonder if there might be a better way to do it.
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Two week cycle? They meet the host on Monday and pitch sketch ideas. IIRC, they work all night Tuesday and Wednesday to have scripts ready for table reads. Then, they do re-writes right up to going live Saturday. It is amazing how much they do in 5 days, and you wonder if there might be a better way to do it.
For some reason I thought they moved to a two-week cycle. Regardless, 90 minutes of live comedy in one week is insane.
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This was on X, but not on the show. I thought it was hilarious. How it didn't make the cut while some of the other skits did is a mystery to me.
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