Charles Barkley "Scared Straight"
 

From this weekend's SNL. Caution at work:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/119798/sat...cared-straight

Yep.....SNL is still not funny.

this......and hasn't been since mid-late 90's

I thought the "wet willie" was pretty amusing...

A laughed my ass off through that on Saturday.

Yea I kinda felt it was one of the stronger episodes they've had in a while. Granted that's not saying much since SNL just hasn't been the same in a number of years. That being said Barkley was funnier than I thought he'd be as a host.

that was the first live SNL i'd seen in like 10 years..


and WOW is Charles Barkley fat...

SNL is great! Stronger than ever!

FYP.

Except for Justin Timberlake.

Give it on up to Homelessville!

What are you smoking? I want some. SNLs glory days are far behind them. Every now and then of course they'll still have a strong episode. Saturday's with Barkley was an example of this.

I just don't understand how people do not think that shit is funny. I thought that SNL was awesome.

ROFLROFL:clap:

I think you are just rooting for SNL and trying to find something that's funny. I watched it and it was pretty good, but it was crap compared to what the show used to be.

Not horrible, but not memorable. Not like the Bass-O-Matic or the Killer Bees and stuff like that.

Maybe they're getting better, though. That would be good.

FAX

One thing I noticed is that Charles Barkley doesn't memorize lines well. A cue card holder assassination would've shut the show down.

heh..in 20 years someone will post on Chiefsplanet:

Man, SNL sucks now.....i remember the glory years of Fred Armisen, Will Forte' Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson and Kirsten Wiig

MacGruber?

Agreed. That's what I'm trying to say as well.


I noticed this as well. You could constantly see him thinking about what line he was supposed to say next. Not very good acting at all. He was a good sport about it all though.

He ain't gonna say show me the money, he say blow me FO FREE!!

I found the 'Scared Straight' skit with Taylor Swift to be much funnier.

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I tend to agree. My theory is that people tend to remember the funny skits and ignore all the crap that has ALWAYS been in the middle of the good stuff. So, when considering how good it is right now, they are comparing the current show (with all the crap) to their perception of the old shows (with only the good stuff).

yes, someone will...
but that doesn't make them right

I Never watch it.

Maybe ... maybe ... however, the problem with that theory, Mr. DaFace, is that the show with Ackroyd, Belushi, and Murray rarely had any bad stuff.

FAX

Good point. Very true as well.

I'm gonna go with 'Mr. FAX has forgotten the bad stuff.' Even, perhaps if Mr. FAX is young enough, 'Mr. FAX has never seen the bad stuff.'

I'd even submit, on a purely hit to miss ratio, the Farley/Sandler heyday had a better on base percentage. Even in the most humdrum of sketches, those two would do something, a glance, a tonal inflection, something where you said 'at least those guys are there.'

I haven't watched SNL in a long time. I used to try to watch it, always knowing that it was supposed to be funny, that I was supposed to like it...it was SNL after all. But, with the exception of a few memorable skits...

...SNL does now and has always pretty much sucked.

Hmmm. Okay, perhaps selective memory is at work in my poor, tired brain thing.

However, can you name one, single SNL skit featuring Ackroyd, Belushi, and Murray that stunk up the joint? Granted, the burger, burger, pepsi, pepsi deal seems a little tiresome, but still humorous.

FAX

Eh, I've never liked Kenan Thompson... he's annoying, and this one is no different. There might be a few decent jokes in there somewhere, but it's like looking for a laugh in a Pauley Shore movie.

I agree. The original SNL cast was great and did groundbreaking stuff, but a good portion of it was still unfunny. The late 80's/early 90's cast was probably the best.

No I can't, because I haven't committed them all to memory. Beyond being too young [well, not technically, I was 4-5 when it debuted] to see them all live, we didn't have a TV from when I entered preschool to HS.

But I have seen a few uncut full episodes over the years and recall there was a good deal of filler to be seen. The characters might've given them some spark just on star power, but they'd be watered down variations of their 'classics' or a situation that just laid there, or a reference [political or pop] that had long since passed.

Certainly, the Samurai sketch couldn't have killed all 185 times they trotted it out.

And so you note, the tiresome if humorous cheeseburger cheeseburger sketch . . . is counted amongst the CLASSICS. Wouldn't be surprised if, a few weeks later there was a similar sketch 'Suvlaki. . . suvlaki'

Definitely. People always remember the "glory years" as the time when something was new and exciting to them, and then eventually it got old.

My dad thinks SNL was the best during the Belushi era, I think it was the best during the Myers, Carvey, Farley era, and my little brothers think the current SNL cast is hilarious because it's all they know.