October 5, 2008

• SNL: Unparalleled

  Unparalleled.

  That’s right.

  I have been watching SNL faithfully since 1993.

  I remember the night my parents begrudgingly let me watch a little of it with my big sis…(she was already a fan)…it was funny.

  Really funny.

  And for some reason I just fell in love with sketch comedy. I don’t even know what it is that I love so much about it…but I do…

  The odd thing is that I’m right. I’m right to love this show.

  It turns out that Saturday Night Live is a phenomenon–a show that was started in 1975 by Lorne Michaels starring a handful of those “Not Ready for Prime-Time Players” like Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, and Bill Murray. It began because NBC needed to fill a 90-minute time slot left by Johnny Carson’s “best-of” shows that had been airing at 11:30. Johnny wanted to save those shows for weekdays while he was on vacation. Thank you again, Johnny Carson…we owe you a great debt of gratitude. Your desire for more time off has given the world a brand of comedy that CANNOT be duplicated, no matter how hard or how often people try.

  There is only ONE Saturday Night Live.

  The interesting thing about this show lately is that sometimes it is just so-so. Sometimes there are a few funny things…and sometimes you have a show like last night’s. A show where the cast, host, and writers JUST NAIL IT. You can feel it when it happens…energy runs high in the cast…and the laughter abounds.

  And it is times like last night that make all of those other so-so episodes worth it.

  So I watch, faithfully…anticipating the funny…sometimes I am let down, other times I am pleased, and occasionally–every once in a while–I get rewarded with the most outrageously funny stuff anyone could imagine.

  Thank you SNL for bringing the fun!

  Here’s a few of the funny’s from last night:

   

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