SNL sucked in the early years, 1975 to the mid 80’s, although we did get the coneheads movie out of it, which was awesome. Then SNL got hilarious until the early 2000’s, hasn’t been good since. It’ll never be like what it was when it had Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, David Spade, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Will Ferrel, Tracey Morgan, Jack Handy’s Deep Thoughts, there were so many hilarious people on there back in the 90’s era, even in the early 2000’s, then it went to shit.
It wasn’t really an exhaustive list.
Norm was the best weekend update guy there ever was. He had a bizarre sense of humor but it was good shit on and off SNL. Jim Bruer, Chris Kattan, Tim Meadows, and several more greats deserve a mention. That decade had phenomenal talent.
Do you remember the show Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn? I didn’t miss an episode of that show ever, they had some of the best standup comedians on there regularly, but it was a political show, I loved it. That was back at the height of standup comedy too, so every one on there was a riot with their banter back and forth.
Eddie Murphy had a some good skits, but until the latter half of the 80’s, there really wasn’t numerous cast members that were hilarious, so in the early half of the 80’x the episode had to be loaded with Eddie or else it wasn’t that great. I love Chevy Chase and Bill Murray, awesome in old movies, but there wasn’t much I saw out of the 70’s SNL that cracked me up. If I was born in the early 60’s I’d probably feel different about that, but I wasn’t, they were before my time so those reruns always bored me.
I liked early SNL but their skits were often "hit or miss". You'd find them funny or just flat. They did a lot of drugs back then, eh? Things that are funny when you're smoking tons of pot in the writing room may not be so the day after.
I do agree though, that lineup was their "Golden Age" for sure. It really fell apart badly after that.
SNL sucked in the early years, 1975 to the mid 80’s, although we did get the coneheads movie out of it, which was awesome. Then SNL got hilarious until the early 2000’s, hasn’t been good since. It’ll never be like what it was when it had Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, David Spade, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Will Ferrel, Tracey Morgan, Jack Handy’s Deep Thoughts, there were so many hilarious people on there back in the 90’s era, even in the early 2000’s, then it went to shit.
Chevy Chase and Bill Murray in the 70s and Eddie Murphy in the early 80s?
Eddie Murphy was arguably the best cast member of all time.
He named SNL cast members and didn't mention Norm.
It wasn’t really an exhaustive list. Norm was the best weekend update guy there ever was. He had a bizarre sense of humor but it was good shit on and off SNL. Jim Bruer, Chris Kattan, Tim Meadows, and several more greats deserve a mention. That decade had phenomenal talent.
Colin Quinn turned out to be a darkhorse for me.
Do you remember the show Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn? I didn’t miss an episode of that show ever, they had some of the best standup comedians on there regularly, but it was a political show, I loved it. That was back at the height of standup comedy too, so every one on there was a riot with their banter back and forth.
Eddie Murphy had a some good skits, but until the latter half of the 80’s, there really wasn’t numerous cast members that were hilarious, so in the early half of the 80’x the episode had to be loaded with Eddie or else it wasn’t that great. I love Chevy Chase and Bill Murray, awesome in old movies, but there wasn’t much I saw out of the 70’s SNL that cracked me up. If I was born in the early 60’s I’d probably feel different about that, but I wasn’t, they were before my time so those reruns always bored me.
I liked early SNL but their skits were often "hit or miss". You'd find them funny or just flat. They did a lot of drugs back then, eh? Things that are funny when you're smoking tons of pot in the writing room may not be so the day after.
I do agree though, that lineup was their "Golden Age" for sure. It really fell apart badly after that.