Entertainment
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SNL was interesting tonight. They did the show with everyone working from home. It wasn’t extremely funny but I appreciated the effort and it had its moments. Seeing entertainers in New York, people who rely heavily on their wits, struggle but stick with it through production of a show pumps me up. We are all in this together.
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@approxinfinity was glad to see it back!
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@approxinfinity I’m glad they are trying, I haven’t watched since the 90s besides here or there. I just don’t find most the people on there funny, the Davidson kid annoys the heck outta me. It was gold with Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell and Chris Rock.
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@kjayhawks whats better than gold? Whatever that is had Belushi, Aykroyd, Chase, Curtain, Newman, Radner, Morris and others. The first 5-10 years was phenomenal.
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@nuleafjhawk I’ve seen some reruns of a those, a little before my time. But they are pretty dang good.
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Saw the show last Saturday night. A few funny spots, but it sure makes a difference with no audience feedback.
A few of the original SNL cast (including Belushi and Chevy Chase) were on the National Lampoon Radio Hour and did touring shows, one of which (Lemmings) came to KU. I was lucky to get to see it at the old Hoch Auditorium (now Budig Hall). I’ve got photos from it in somewhere in one of my yearbooks.
Although the original cast was good, some of those early sketches look really dated today. It seems that SNL gets a group of really creative cast members every few years, then falls into a sort of “meh” period. Everybody seems to have their own favorite era. The last group I really liked was during the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler/Bill Hader/Kristen Wiig years.
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@nwhawkfan that was a good group. Recently, I wandered through all the Mark Twain award speeches on Youtube. They werent amazing, but they were an enjoyable watch; I like seeing behind the curtain on these people’s lives and relationships, directly from them (not the paparazzi). Here’s Amy Poehler on Tina Fey. Will Farrell’s (i think about Tina Fey?) was also good.
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@approxinfinity Thanks for passing that along. Also loved Tina Fey’s work on 30 Rock. Every episode had a bunch of laugh-out-loud lines and inside jokes (with, thank God, no laugh track).
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Watched first 2 episodes of Mindhunter today on Netflix. Very impressed. Dialog was outstanding.
