Saturday Night Live

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“Well what else am I supposed to watch when I'm flogging my dong...at midnight on SATURDAY NIIIIIGHT!!!!!!?”

~ Oscar Wilde on Saturday Night Live

Do you remember me? I'm David Letterman from when Saturday Night Live used to be funny.

Saturday Night Live, or "SNL" (Still No Laughs) is a washed up comedy show that is remembered for its great comedy. Today it is nothing but a rusty old trophy of a show that NBC has yet to retire. In fact if it wasn't for the guest celebrities and The Lonely Island than the show would almost certainly be canceled. It's common knowledge the the world ended when John Belushi died; therefore, SNL has no hope. How about a leigon of dubya impersonators? Michael Richards saying the N word? Well I guess if you really wanted to watch something funny you would change the channel to Comedy Central instead of watching a washed up news corporation like NBC. Seriously, man, Brokaw, fuck you.

[edit] Content

Nothing is more of a tell tale sign of no talent then when a shows writers go to governors for jokes.

Before the election of Obama the show mainly consisted of unfunny sketches of George Dubya Bush impersonators and Senator Palin rapping. Now in a post-bush world the show has once again ran out of ideas for sketches. But nonetheless SNL has plenty of original sketches like the Comedic News team right? Oh yeah I just remembered if I wanted a comedic news I would watch the Colbert Report or John Stewart. The Sean Connery/Celebrity Jeopardy days have ended, and now there's shit. But the George Bush thing that original right? RIGHT? No! The joke is on you now! They lied! But it's still running because celebrities like fucking and pretending they're funny. And we just oblige.

[edit] Premiere and Run

For a time, NBC hired male strippers to entertain the studio audiance during commercial breaks.

The original SNL cast members (from left to right): Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Jane Curtin. Some other people were on the show too, but nobody can remember them.

The show debuted Monday October 39th 1975 from Michaels' imperial palace (known only as 30 Rockefeller Center) and became a success from the beginning, mainly due to the infighting that created sketches (such as Chevy Chase's blatant Anti-Semitism, Garrett Morris freebasing accident that led to him being severely burned, and Laraine Newman's brief stint as King Henry VIII of England). The Brothers Gibb, a barbershop singing trio, made numerous appearances, launching their career.

Beginning with the second episode, fans began complaining that Saturday Night Live wasn't as funnay as it used to be. This was the beginning of a slow decline (marked, unfortunately, by Chevy Chase's suicide in 1976 after leaving the show, probably on the realization that he wasn't really that funny), due primarily to Michaels' paranoia (and an affair with Carrot Top, which led to a considerable loss of talent on his part).

To counter this, Michaels started to book more obscure celebrities in an attempt to have more free will to make fun of them. This led to Buck Henry holding the record for most times hosting at thirty-seven (though only two were put in records as actually "funny"). He also convinced the cast to start joining him in drug binges. However, this backfired as Akroyd and Belushi (after a good LSD trip) saw the light and (with the help of "Snake" Pliskin) escaped from New York and moved to Hollywood, where they made The Blues Brothers (considered to be a major religion now).

[edit] End

Jon Lovitz tries to put a good face on Great American Humor Blight of '78. He was fired two minutes later.

In May 1980, as the show finished its fifth season, the drug use by the cast made it open to attack at any time. It was at this point that Harry Shearer led a coup d'etat on the island of Manhattan, helped by other, even less funny comics such as Gilbert Gottfried, Charlie Rocket, and Joe Piscopo. The coup was successful as all the cast was killed by the guillotine. However, the "new cast," as they called themselves, were revealed to not be funny after putting on an episode at the end of the season. The group committed mass suicide in June 1980, and the show was disbanded. Inexplicably, knitting needles had been run through the eye(s) of all cast and crew. The NBC peacock developed alopecia and lost its feathers and Oscar Wilde lost his virginity that very night.

Today, the remains of Michaels' palace lay in ruin on Manhattan, and much memory of the show is forgotten by today's generation. Saturday Night Live did have a spin-off called Saturday Night Dead, though. It debuted in 1980 after Saturday Night Live ended, and is supposedly still on TV, but no one really knows because no one has ever actually watched it, possibly because it isn't funny... Except for Blizzardman-- thats funny.

In a parallel universe SNL's counterpart, Friday Night Live, is currently in its twentieth season.

[edit] See also

• Great American Humor Blight of '78
• Television
• 1970s