"Saturday Night Live" Performs Stage Show Amid Strike

AP:

It wasn't live from New York as usual.

About 150 audience members in a tiny Manhattan theater were the only folks in the world to witness a totally new "Saturday Night Live" episode starring guest host Michael Cera and musical guest Yo La Tengo.

Anyone who tuned into NBC was subjected to a two-week-old rerun featuring Brian Williams and Feist, thanks to an ongoing Writers Guild of America labor strike.

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Comments

[JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin]

11:44 PM on 11/18/2007

Why should we care about SNL? The fact that it's off the air is a good thing.

The show has been consistently awful for many years. Why the fuck is it still on the air?

[JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin]

08:19 PM on 11/18/2007

Why do we care about SNL?

Watch this instead....from my good friend Dusan Makavejev

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Ki7a4XBaM

[citizenofmars]

02:48 PM on 11/18/2007

Brian Williams- Keep your day job...

[Wilsonfisk89]

02:08 PM on 11/18/2007

SNL is excruciatingly unfunny, really. Each "skit", or whatver you want to call it consists of ONE punchline, played out over seven minutes, with the players preening for laughs, often giggling themselves, a cheap attempt at eliciting laughter when the material itself yields none. It is only "funny" because it is presented as such, and the audience/sheep are conditioned to laugh. No genuine humor content, at all. Amy Poehler is amazing yet misused, same as Fred Armisen.
And I'm sorry but I feel the same way about 30 Rock. While Baldwin is consistently great, its an otherwise mundane show, again, cueing the audience as to whats funny, which is usually not very much.