Rudy Park by Darrin Bell and Theron Heir for March 06, 2023

Why is that kid up late enough to watch SNL?

Randy’s right. Aykroyd, Murry and Belushi is when SNL was funny.

Certainly not much funny now. RIP Gilda Radner.

Saturdays episode was incredibly funny, my wife and I laughed through the whole thing…

Rudy and Randy have a point. SNL appeals to a certain demographic which i no longer belong to. I got busy with other things and then one Saturday realize that I hadn’t seen it in years. So i tried it again and it just seemed lame.

It’s kind of like the funny pages. Sometime you need to slog through a lot of lame stuff to find a few good ones.

Humor is generational, like music. The comedy I grew up with is still funny to me, but I just don’t care for most of today’s humor.

Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che is by far the funniest part these days.

It’s said that The Golden Age of Everything is Twelve or Thirteen: that is, your awareness expands so rapidly at that age that the thrills and pleasures you discover then can never really be eclipsed in your mind. (The saying was first coined with regard to The Golden Age of Science Fiction in particular, apparently by Peter Scott Graham.) Even so, I don’t think there can be much doubt that there are periods of SNL that stand up (and stood up when first broadcast) a lot better than others.

My usual smart-aleck response to these sorts of exchanges is, “it’s gone downhill since Chevy Chase left”.

That makes Randy awfully old.