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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 3086298" data-attributes="member: 5171">Well, aside from my crush on Tina Fey, yeah. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I've got no problem with knocking the show. It's coming in with "Shrug, I haven't watched it in years," that irked me (not saying that was you specifically). If you haven't watched the show in five years, then how slow is your day that you have nothing better to do than troll a thread on the subject? I didn't keep trolling the "Surface" threads after I stopped watching the show. I don't troll "Smallville" threads, and really, I could.For my money, SNL is, like NFL football, dramatically improved by Tivo (or something like Tivo). My wife and I don't watch it live -- and I'd love to say that we're doing exciting things instead, but really, 2-year-old, so we're asleep and grateful by that time. We used to watch it Sunday mornings, but it's not always dude-appropriate, so we watch it weeknights instead.  And it's really great for watching a good sketch and zipping through a poor one.This might explain why my overall feeling on the show is still positive. If the political opener sketch is good, we watch it. If it's not, ca-click, ca-click, ca-click, and stop when the guest host walks out. Watch the monologue unless it gets uncomfortably bad, watch the commercial, watch just about everything before the first song. Skip the first song, watch the news update, and then give everything after the update two minutes to be funny.I'm looking forward to "Studio 60 on Sunset Strip" as an answer to why some lame sketches continue to be redone. I suspect it's more complex than I think -- or maybe it's as simple as "90 minutes, live, every week" that does it. I don't know.My guess is that Fey was good at grabbing new stuff and making it shine, but that she had to pick her battles and tended to okay mediocre revamps because that was the writing she had to work with. I'd also guess that it's a lot easier to write 90 minutes of Jack Black than it is to write 90 minutes of Paris Hilton or Lance Armstrong or anybody else who isn't actually an actor in any real way. (I exempt Tom Brady, because Tom Brady ROCKED, and surprised the heck out of me.) And beyond that, you've got all the actors who are used to three or four takes, or Steve Martin coming back and sucking the air out of the room.Although even the Paris Hilton episode got me the Geek Phone Sex line, which made it worth it to me.So no, it wasn't criticism that bothered me -- it was the casual "Oh, is that still on?" I've got no problem with people who, you know, watch the show complaining about it.</blockquote>

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