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Saturday Night Live
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Maybe it's just me, but I think the current SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE is at best a mediocre show as it has been now for a long time. Without a doubt, it is not nearly as funny as it was when it first began in 1975 with the people you see on this page. There have been some funny people on the show since then, but mostly they seem to be just imitating the original cast instead of coming up with new ideas. I'm probably not being fair because, to be honest, I have not watched it much in the last few years, but, when I have, I have been totally unimpressed. |
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DAN AYKROYD
Still one of the funniest guys
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JOHN BELUSHI
It's a complete bummer that he died so young because he was one of the funniest guys ever. |
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LARAINE NEWMAN, JANE CURTIN,
& GILDA RADNER
I can understand Jane Curtin sort of fading away, but I thought LARAINE NEWMAN was great. All she's done for years now are minor roles in bad movies such as ENDSVILLE, DEMOLITION UNIVERSITY, CHOW BELLA, etc. What a waste. |
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BELUSHI & AYKROYD:
THE BLUES BROTHERS |
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GILDA RADNER
It's even sadder about Gilda's dying than Belushi's, because she didn't bring it on herself and she was amazingly funny. |
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Some funny people who have been on the cast in more recent years:
JIM CARREY
EDDIE MURPHY
MARTIN SHORT
DANA CARVEY
PHIL HARTMAN
CHRIS FARLEY
CHRIS ROCK |
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| "Jane, you ignorant slut!" |
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CHEVY CHASE
He's a funny guy, but he's not on the same level as Belushi, Aykroyd, and Murray. |
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| "Cheeseboogie! Cheeseboogie! Cheeseboogie!" |
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"Nevermind" |
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"What's all this talk I keep hearing about Eagles rights?" |
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"Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" |
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JANE CURTIN & BILL MURRAY
I think JANE CURTIN was very fortunate to be on the show with all these geniuses. She was marginal at best.
BILL MURRAY more or less filled the spot left vacant when Chevy Chase left the show during the 1976-77 season, and I think it was an upgrade. |
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"If you're good at it, you leave no fingerprints."
LORNE MICHAELS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER |
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GARRETT MORRIS
"Base-a-ball been very, very good to me."
Chico Escuela was an excellent character. Morris is now a regular on the JAMIE FOXX SHOW, which I have never seen. |
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| "It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, Roseanne Roseannadanna, it's always something. If it isn't one thing, it's another. It's always something." |
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ON LORNE MICHAELS: "He got the network off our backs...he kept us away from everybody, he gave us the independence that we needed so we didn't feel like we were under a microscope. And it worked." - BILL MURRAY |
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BILL MURRAY, STEVE MARTIN,
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POSTSCRIPT
"The remarkable thing about television is that it permits
several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
T. S. ELIOT |
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NEXT TELEVISION PAGE = SECOND CITY
TO MY MOVIES & TV MAIN PAGE
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