Re: SNL (Re: Free Castle Break on Steam!)

Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

TL;DR: in twenty years, we (either personally or as a culture) be
looking back fondly on a lot of the current SNL skits and wondering
why the 2050 cast is so unfunny ;-)

I remember first watching Saturday Night Live a few years after it
first aired and already people were telling me that original cast was
much better.  I beleived them too, since most of the original cast
where big name stars with movie careers by then.  How could nobodies
like Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo compare with the likes of Dan Aykroyd
or Chevy Chase?

As I continued to watch and enjoy it, I kept hearing how previous seasons
and casts were better and how far downhill it had gone.  Except now they
were talking about seasons and casts I had seen myself.  While I could
agree such-and-such a sketch was a classic and so-and-so who left the
show was really funny, I was still enjoying the show.

By the time the 90's rolled around I realized people were just going
to continue saying the show had gone downhill and whatever season and
cast they first watched was the best.  No one really had a viewpoint
where they could objectively compare the seasons.  Even me who never
thought the show was bad couldn't really see where the show had it's
inevitiable up and downs.  Just too hard to objectively compare a show
you're watching today to a show you saw years ago.

When I heard people making similar complaints about The Simpsons I just
ignored them.  Somehow both perputually downhill shows have managed to
survive even now when TV itself is in decline.

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