"Saturday Night Live" ran out of steam a looooong time ago, and the producers think of it as some American institution that must be preserved at all costs. That much is evident by the fact it has moved to another, much less watched network. NBC made a good decision to get rid of it, and the public view that it is a "pop-culture phenomenon" has gone straight to the producers' heads, long after the fact. Skits are now based on the lamest of jokes. The band must have considered themselves underused, and now they compose overblown theme songs that are mostly used only once.
I stopped watching SNL when Nicolas Cage hosted somewhere around 1990, and did a skit called "Tiny Elvis". Cage, as Tiny Elvis, was bluescreened into a shot where he is resting under a lamp on an end table. Rob Schneider and someone else were talking to him, and Tiny Elvis would say, "Look at that table! That thing is huuuuuge!" Whereas Schneider and his friend would laugh hysterically for about two minutes straight. Then Elvis would say "Look at that ball! That thing is huuuuge!" Even more laughter. After enduring that witlessly repetitive and extremely pointless skit to its end, I turned off the TV and went to bed, vowing never to watch the show again. I occasionally watch glimpses of even more insipid sketches as I surf through E! and Comedy Central, and I wonder why Lorne Michaels is still kicking this horse so long after it died.
I am so astounded at the unintelligence of about 98% of the skits, I have now placed a personal moratorium on any movie or TV show featuring SNL alumni, especially Adam Sandler. We seem to be inundated by this humor in movies now, and I have no clue what possessed people to produce not one but two "Wayne's World" movies, and that landmark bad idea, "Stuart Smalley Saves His Family"(That skit was never entertaining to begin with).
Put the show out of our misery. Please.
I stopped watching SNL when Nicolas Cage hosted somewhere around 1990, and did a skit called "Tiny Elvis". Cage, as Tiny Elvis, was bluescreened into a shot where he is resting under a lamp on an end table. Rob Schneider and someone else were talking to him, and Tiny Elvis would say, "Look at that table! That thing is huuuuuge!" Whereas Schneider and his friend would laugh hysterically for about two minutes straight. Then Elvis would say "Look at that ball! That thing is huuuuge!" Even more laughter. After enduring that witlessly repetitive and extremely pointless skit to its end, I turned off the TV and went to bed, vowing never to watch the show again. I occasionally watch glimpses of even more insipid sketches as I surf through E! and Comedy Central, and I wonder why Lorne Michaels is still kicking this horse so long after it died.
I am so astounded at the unintelligence of about 98% of the skits, I have now placed a personal moratorium on any movie or TV show featuring SNL alumni, especially Adam Sandler. We seem to be inundated by this humor in movies now, and I have no clue what possessed people to produce not one but two "Wayne's World" movies, and that landmark bad idea, "Stuart Smalley Saves His Family"(That skit was never entertaining to begin with).
Put the show out of our misery. Please.
