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Posted on 6/18/11 at 12:24 pm to DelU249
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when will ferrell hit, he hit big, but 95% of his skits were fricking awful.
that is just absurd, and fricking crazy. the guy has two best of with nothing but hilarious skits on them the whole way through. and there was still plenty more that they left out.
i would definitely agree, and it's not even close, that that mid-80's cast was easily the worst
Posted on 6/18/11 at 12:38 pm to DelU249
I rarely watch SNL now, but every time I watch this guy is probably the most unfunny guy on screen. He's always the same high pitched voice person every single time. He sucks
Posted on 6/18/11 at 1:00 pm to BilJ
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most unfunny guy on screen
Posted on 6/18/11 at 1:46 pm to DelU249
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Cherri Oteri
Chris Kataan
Horatio Sanz
Colin Quinn
Tina Fey (one good Palin impersonation, and all of a sudden she is funny?)
Tracy Morgan
Ana Gasteyer
Chris Parnell
Darrell Hammond (though his Clinton was the bomb)
Will Ferrell (people forget how unfunny he was on the show outside of a few skits)
Tim Meadows
Amy Poehler
Jimmy Fallon (the absolute worst
I don't know if I've ever disagreed this much with someone. Looking at the names you've listed actually makes me think that that was one of the best casts they've ever had.
Posted on 6/18/11 at 3:22 pm to Uncle Stu
Season 10*: 1984-1985
Jim Belushi
Billy Crystal
Mary Gross
Christopher Guest
Rich Hall
Gary Kroeger
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Harry Shearer (final episode: January 12, 1985)
Martin Short
Pamela Stephenson
The show was so bad that NBC briefly cancelled it but changed their minds only because they were able to get Lorne Micheals back (this was the last season Ebersol had involvement with the show). Things were so bad that they didn't even have a host for the first show of the season.
*this was also the year of the writer's strike which, mercifully, cut the season short to only 17 episodes.
Jim Belushi
Billy Crystal
Mary Gross
Christopher Guest
Rich Hall
Gary Kroeger
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Harry Shearer (final episode: January 12, 1985)
Martin Short
Pamela Stephenson
The show was so bad that NBC briefly cancelled it but changed their minds only because they were able to get Lorne Micheals back (this was the last season Ebersol had involvement with the show). Things were so bad that they didn't even have a host for the first show of the season.
*this was also the year of the writer's strike which, mercifully, cut the season short to only 17 episodes.
Posted on 6/18/11 at 3:31 pm to DelU249
What's really sad about the casts since the mid-2000's is that several of the players are very funny outside of SNL but completely bomb on the show. Case in-point: Tina Fey. Just about everything she's done outside of SNL has been hilarious and quite clever. On SNL, I can count on one hand the number of times she made me laugh. Ditto Bill Hader - I had no idea he was even remotely funny until I saw him in Superbad.
Posted on 6/18/11 at 4:14 pm to Pilot Tiger
Kenan was/is awesome in a role for tweens/young teenagers. Watching All That was a huge part of my childhood, and he was money on that show. But he just can't translate it to adult/SNL humor. It's painful to watch.
ETA: Or maybe it's like what NWHoustonTiger said and he actually is funny in other adult roles, just not on SNL. I've really only seen him on Keenan and Kel/All That and SNL.
ETA: Or maybe it's like what NWHoustonTiger said and he actually is funny in other adult roles, just not on SNL. I've really only seen him on Keenan and Kel/All That and SNL.
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Posted on 6/18/11 at 5:23 pm to drewhowie
Current cast in my lifetime
Posted on 6/18/11 at 5:33 pm to Uncle Stu
The show went to crap when Fey became the head writer. Skits were way too hit and miss at that point and it was like 90% miss. She's a solid sitcom writer, but skit comedy was definitely not her forte.
That is what hurt SNL's funniness from like 2000 till now. It started the downfall.
That is what hurt SNL's funniness from like 2000 till now. It started the downfall.
Posted on 6/18/11 at 5:51 pm to Buckeye Fan 19
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he just can't translate it to adult/SNL humor. It's painful to watch.
it think he is for young adults more than anything.
Posted on 6/18/11 at 7:24 pm to Pilot Tiger
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most unfunny guy on screen
I happen to really like Jean K. Jean.
Zut Alors!
And I think "What's up with that?" is pretty funny too.
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it think he is for young adults more than anything.
And I've been watching SNL pretty much since Belushi, Aykroyd, Curtin, Radner, Newman, etc.
This post was edited on 6/18/11 at 7:27 pm
Posted on 6/19/11 at 1:15 am to Geaux2002
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The show went to crap when Fey became the head writer. Skits were way too hit and miss at that point and it was like 90% miss. She's a solid sitcom writer, but skit comedy was definitely not her forte.
That is what hurt SNL's funniness from like 2000 till now. It started the downfall.
We agree on something. Particularly every word posted here
Posted on 6/19/11 at 1:26 am to DelU249
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Cherri Oteri
Chris Kataan
Horatio Sanz
Colin Quinn
Tina Fey (one good Palin impersonation, and all of a sudden she is funny?)
Tracy Morgan
Ana Gasteyer
Chris Parnell
Darrell Hammond (though his Clinton was the bomb)
Will Ferrell (people forget how unfunny he was on the show outside of a few skits)
Tim Meadows
Amy Poehler
Jimmy Fallon (the absolute worst)
1998-2006 was the worst jerry...the worst
someone may have pointed this out already, but some of these people were never on the show at the same time. on a side note, i disagree with you on many of these.
Posted on 6/19/11 at 1:44 am to ashy larry
it's the same era...
98 was the absolute worst, and not one person on that list was consistently funny on SNL People really get caught up in their success after SNL...this was the worst of the worst. Maybe those early 80s casts were worse, but it is preposterous to call this cast or eara of SNL performers funny...98 was absolute garbage
98 was the absolute worst, and not one person on that list was consistently funny on SNL People really get caught up in their success after SNL...this was the worst of the worst. Maybe those early 80s casts were worse, but it is preposterous to call this cast or eara of SNL performers funny...98 was absolute garbage
Posted on 6/19/11 at 8:49 am to DelU249
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Fox Mulder
an individual's ability to judge humor is usually quite subjective, but yours is fricked. There are certain truths in life, one of them is universally acceptance of what is and what is not funny. But somewhere along the line you must've been kicked in the head or dropped as a baby, because in this thread alone you've somehow managed to separate yourself from all the others and lost any and all credibility from now until the end of time.
Please, tell us what you think qualifies as funny
Posted on 6/19/11 at 8:58 am to Geaux2002
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The show went to crap when Fey became the head writer. Skits were way too hit and miss at that point and it was like 90% miss
People always say this, but I think Tina was a fine head writer. The show has always been hit or miss; nostalgia seems to make people forget that even in the Sandler years there were still boring or bad sketches. And saying 90% of her sketches were a miss is simply unfair and untrue.
Posted on 6/19/11 at 9:06 am to akcheat
I seem to remember that during Sandler/Farley years, they had this fascination with the "vomit" machines. There seemed to be a projectile vomiting skit every other week for a couple of years.. It got really old and was never really funny.
Even Eddie Murphy and John Belushi had shitty skits. It wasn't all Samurai, Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood, Blues Brothers, or Little Richard Simmons (and that was only good for one skit).
Even Eddie Murphy and John Belushi had shitty skits. It wasn't all Samurai, Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood, Blues Brothers, or Little Richard Simmons (and that was only good for one skit).
Posted on 6/19/11 at 9:21 am to DelU249
The worst SNL cast is the one that is on SNL right now. I can honestly say that I don't so much as crack a smile during a few of those episodes. I agree that SNL has always been hit or miss, that some sketches will bomb because it's impossible to be laugh-out-loud funny for the entire episode. But today's present cast just SUCKS! They miss on practically everything. The only time I have ever cracked up and laughed out loud to an SNL sketch in the last few years was Justin Timberlake's Homelessville sketch.
Posted on 6/19/11 at 10:45 am to Uncle Stu
I'm sorry, but if you enjoyed that era of SNL, you have poor taste in humor...just pitiful taste
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