Am I the only one who just doesn't find SNL funny?

[Doodley]

Maybe it's because I hail from a little place called England and our humor is different there, but my (American) wife thinks it's hilarious. All I see is a lot of obnoxious personalities being obnoxious with jokes that are not funny.

[Ocelot II]

1. It hasn't been more than occasionally funny in at least 30 years.

[montanacowboy]

2. It used to be funny

it was at the top of its game but not so much now. The writers suck.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Connie Conehead

Roseann Roseanne Danna, Cheeseburga. Jane you ignorant slut. I could go on.

[montanacowboy]

13. My all time favorite

cheeberger cheeberger pepsi pepsi - John Belushi - I remember laffing my ass off. Those were the days.

[a kennedy]

20. Even the later "two wild and crazy guys". Absolutely loved these guys....

[BOSSHOG]

24. Jane You Ignorant Slut

Comedy 50 years ago. Today, the norm.

[samnsara]

22. nevermind

[elleng]

3. No, it's a long time since I've watched it, and last times I passed by it,

I thought WHY?

[LT Barclay]

4. Last time I watched, it was hours of childish humor with occasional brilliant satire. But now with DU

someone always posts the good stuff and I don't suffer through the cast trying to drag one sight gag out for 5 minutes.

[JT45242]

5. Generally update desk is good...

Usually the open is good...

Everything else is hit or miss. Many skits are a good idea, but cannot sustain the 5-10 minutes they try to get out of it.

It has been inconsistent for years.

So, it's not just that your from England.

[doc03]

11. If you can stay awake long enough to watch it, last night I changed channels before

the Weekend Update. The musical acts are horrible aren't there any singers that don't grab their crotch twenty times.

[samnsara]

23. OMG the skits portraying NY Gov Dave Patterson

..on week end update. Wandering about..showing graphs.. Hilarious!

[Traildogbob]

7. Gotta say

I laughed my ass off at the Besvis Butthead segment with Ryan Gosling a few shows back.

[marble falls]

8. How could American humor ever top Benny Hill? ...

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[TBF]

9. Mr. Bill was super funny -

but that was a long time ago ... it goes through phases where it's funnier but totally depends upon the cast. English humor is definitely different.

[Silent Type]

10. Same here. But, back in the day -- like in my late 20s (1970s) -- it was great, especially at the time that weed made

me laugh.

[peacebuzzard]

12. I used to love the skits with Gilda Radner, the Steve Martin skits, way back when

But it has been decades since I remotely found SNL amusing. I also do not do main stream broadcasting.

I do not feel like I am missing anything. Cheers!

[PSPS]

14. It is still viewed as "funny" to younger people

One's sense of humor changes as they get older. To those who watched SNL in the beginning with Chase, Aykroyd, Belushi, etc., not only was it a new concept but the audience was comprised of young draft-age people who were celebrating Nixon's departure and the end of the war. It's fifty years later and that demographic's sense of humor has changed, has other things to worry about, and finds contemporary humor hard to relate to since popular culture has changed.

[IcyPeas]

15. I always record it. Sometimes the musical guest is good.

And weekend update... meh. I can fast forward through the introduction naming all the actors... there are so many people in the cast it takes ages to introduce everyone.

I don't know if it's the writers or the actors/comedians but it's just so bland now. Once in a while they do something funny... I also liked the skit with Beavis and butthead as mentioned above.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Lorne Michaels has allowed Saturday Night Live to morph into Fridays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridays_(TV_series)

To critics like Shales, Fridays remained a "fanatically low-rated rip-off of Saturday Night Live" until the bitter end. Reviewing the prime-time special, he said, "Surely six of the most dispiriting words in television are: 'Fridays will continue in a moment.'"

Read More: 40 Years Ago: 'Fridays' Stumbles to an Unfortunate End | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/fridays-final-episode/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

[hlthe2b]

17. Funny very sporadically--especially in recent decades. Can have biting political humor that is not LOL funny, but...

can be at least amusing.

I do get that there are differences in British and American humor though. While I am a long-term fan of the former dating to Monty Python and others, I don't always appreciate the slapstick physicality often seen in British humor, so there is that. Then again, I was only occasionally amused by Lucile Ball--her original show, which frequently relied on physical humor as well--even while I appreciated her talent. Monty Python had a sarcastic edge that brought a mirror to society's hypocrisy and idiocy. So even when it indulged in physical humor, a more analytical "cerebral" message was usually being advanced--the kind of humor frequently advanced by The Onion here.

But, yes, SNL has only sporadic instances of laughable humor now and even those are frequently reliant on gross (childish) antics.

[Traildogbob]

18. To be fair

I no longer sit with friends, not married with kids and smoke bongs for a few hours in anticipation for the SNL Ackroyd cast to come on at 11:30. When we bellied laughed at each others stupid jokes before the show even started. A random fart would have us on the floor laughing.
Yes, had to grow up, now things are not all funny.
Too many real life things tamps down humor.
But I agree , some skits are very good, some guest hosts, like Wiig, make a show really good and sometimes I just wanna see the music guest, like Foo Fighters.
Many times PBS at that hour over rides SNL with Austin City Limits, Cavern Sessions and other all music shows for me.

[bif]

19. Haven't watched it in years for that very reason.

It got unfunny a long time ago!

[samnsara]

21. early SNL was genius as was the cast...

..I think they are heading that way again.