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Bad news for SNL fans. It's not cancelled, but...

Garrett said:
On the 20th anniversary of what is considered by some (me), to be one of the WORST season's ever for Saturday Night Live, it seems an entire cast is leaving. And Weekend Update?

Read this, than discuss:
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/entertainment/15358966.htm
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Not far enough. If NBC wanted to really salvage the show, they'd do what they did in 1981 and 1985, completely flush the thing and start over from scratch. New cast, new writers, new producers. They'd save money, and breathe some fresh air into the thing.

One of my old comedy writing partners actually worked as an intern at SNL during the mid '90's, and was told point-blank by one of the writers "we can't do anything ground breaking because Lorne is so afraid of the network, he'd fire us in a minute." That, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with SNL. It's stopped being anti-establishment, and become the establishment, too timid to do anything good.
 
SNL UPDATE: THE PLOT THICKENS

pabsungenis said:
Garrett said:
On the 20th anniversary of what is considered by some (me), to be one of the WORST season's ever for Saturday Night Live, it seems an entire cast is leaving. And Weekend Update?

Read this, than discuss:
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/entertainment/15358966.htm
Click to expand...

Not far enough. If NBC wanted to really salvage the show, they'd do what they did in 1981 and 1985, completely flush the thing and start over from scratch. New cast, new writers, new producers. They'd save money, and breathe some fresh air into the thing.

One of my old comedy writing partners actually worked as an intern at SNL during the mid '90's, and was told point-blank by one of the writers "we can't do anything ground breaking because Lorne is so afraid of the network, he'd fire us in a minute." That, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with SNL. It's stopped being anti-establishment, and become the establishment, too timid to do anything good.
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Horatio Sanz is disputing reports that he was let go from the show:
http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/08/24/horatio-sanz-says-hes-still-on-snl-update/

Uh oh...
 
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When Lorne Michaels retires, will that mean Hell actually froze over? ;)

I salute that gentleman for keeping the show going. I'm sorry to hear about the cuts...perhaps there's another way to fund the show?

Ads for Universal movies in every sketch perhaps?

What ever...I hope NBC knows what it is doing...that's their farm team for future Universal movies y'know...
 
I can't believe Parnell and Kenan are going to be gone while several of the faceless drones who haven't really distinguished themselves in any way are sticking around. Hammond's been on way too long and Sanz isn't funny, so I won't miss them.

They might as well just blow the whole thing up and just give Samberg, Fallon, and Sudeikis their own pre-taped show in its place since their bits are the only reason anyone's cared about SNL for the past two seasons anyway.
 
clichemoth said:
I can't believe Parnell and Kenan are going to be gone while several of the faceless drones who haven't really distinguished themselves in any way are sticking around. Hammond's been on way too long and Sanz isn't funny, so I won't miss them.

They might as well just blow the whole thing up and just give Samberg, Fallon, and Sudeikis their own pre-taped show in its place since their bits are the only reason anyone's cared about SNL for the past two seasons anyway.
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HaS To be kept live.
This is the place for future talent to grow.
 
Yeziknoradio said:
HaS To be kept live.
This is the place for future talent to grow.
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Hardly. There are a bunch of other places - with Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell busting out, The Daily Show may have taken its place.
 
pabsungenis said:
That, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with SNL. It's stopped being anti-establishment, and become the establishment, too timid to do anything good.
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Odd that Baby Boomers, who propelled the original SNL (Chase, Radner, Curtin, Aykroyd, etc.) to huge sucess are now the ones standing in the way of a new generation. Boomers in management often fail to realize how much they've become everything they used to hate. Some of those reasons are legitimate, but, oh the irony. ;D
 
SNL died when Will Ferral left, in my humble opinion. This show has gotten so corny and dry. The hiring of Keenan Thompson was a huge mistake in my .02 cent opinion. If you want me to be honest, nothing on NBC is as good as it used to be. Only a few shows are worthy on the peacock. (Earl, Office) Let's hope this fall brings the magic back in NBC with their new shows. I'm glad to see more sitcoms are coming! Thanks for reading. Take care.

Neil
 
Up until about 10 years ago, or so, I would never miss SNL, but it seems like around that time, the ammount of lame bits kept growing and growing, until the point where I would only even smile at one or two bits in the entire show.

That was around the same time when MadTV came to be on Fox, and I think they have been beating SNL at their own game ever since. By being a taped show, they can filter out the dead bits.

If SNL doesn't improve their writing and cast, then, IMHO, it probably won't be around within the next couple of years. NBC will probably replace it with reruns of Leno & Conan.
 
The last season of SNL I truly thought was great was the 1998-99...I think that was propelled by the impeachment hearings give the show a lot of fresh material to go off of. John Goodman was wonderful as played Linda Tripp, and I believe the Oops I Crapped My Pants commercial aired at this time. Since then, there has been some bright spots, but they are now fewer and far between. :-\


Mediafrog+ said:
Odd that Baby Boomers, who propelled the original SNL (Chase, Radner, Curtin, Aykroyd, etc.) to huge sucess are now the ones standing in the way of a new generation. Boomers in management often fail to realize how much they've become everything they used to hate. Some of those reasons are legitimate, but, oh the irony. ;D
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Well said!
 
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