In Jay Mohrs book he talks about a conversation he had with the head writer who said that the show has two phazes it goes through

It has seasons that are focused on the writers and seasons that are focused on comedians...the writer focused sasons almost always suck, and the show needs an infusion of a few really stellar comeians to save it. The problem I see here is that there not throwing new comedians in the mix, so the writers will run this crapfest for another year

PLUS, the show no loonger has a CRAZY FUNNY GUY, you know, Farley, Farrel, Murphy, etc...the guy who by sheer presence of his insanity can make any skit funny.

THAT statement is on the money.

Think back how many times a crap sketch was funny just because one of those guys just did something, anything, that wasn't on the script that made the sketch memorable. An example is the Deion Sanders show when Farley's pants fell down as he runs into the alien ship. It was much funnier because it was Farley. That sketch was as dumb as they come, but it became an instant classic show moment. Or the sketch with Farrel wearing the American flag thong in the office meeting. Or Belushi or Bill Murray doing anything.

Mohr's book was cool because he appeared in alot of those sketches with Farley, and he says farley would play the sketch dead strainght in dress rehersal, so there was this looming fear surrounding the cast as to what crazy shit Farley would do. ALL of it was planned.

I'm sorry if you got some weird vibe from my post. I was just agreeing with the person who first brought up the "distubing lack of love" for Maya. Like I said to each their own.

peace

They should get more cast members from Nick's original cast of "All That". Much funnier than the current state of SNL.

I'll just say he's as talented and funny as anyone else on the show.

good lord. I haven't agreed with a single thing you've ever posted....but this takes the cake

I'm a huge fan of Amy Poehler and like all of the female cast members to a certain degree. It's the male cast members that i can't stand. They pretty much all need to be replaced.

The best era was around 98-00 when their were a lot of females in the cast. This was a time of memorable characters and politics-light. Can anyone mention a memorable character in these recents years?

Best seasons were the ones with these people (and some of their characters):

Cheri Oteri - the crazy cheerleaders (with Will Ferrell) and the Divas Live bits as Mariah

Molly Shannon - Superstar, especially the one where she destroys the bathroom when Gweneth Paltrow was a guest

Ana Gasteyer - the old singer (with Will Ferrell) and the radio host (with Molly Shannon), very funny when Alec Baldwin was a guest and he said something about his famous Shwetty Meatballs and she thought she was drunk from non-alcoholic eggnog

Collin Quinn - back when he did Weekend Update

Chris Kattan - Mango, the Night At The Rocksbury clubbers (with Will Ferrell), his Divas Live bit, and his inpersonation of the Queen of England when W. Update ran "news" of her falling and breaking her bones

Will Ferrell - what can I say? Pure genious. As a cheerleader with Oteri "Sex can wait! Masturbate!"

Tracy Morgan - his Aretha Franklin inpersonation in the Divas Live bit

Tim Meadows - I forget the character's name but was a sex god apparently.


On a side note, the current cast's gem is not Tina Fey but Maya Rudolph. She is a class act. Her singing in Gays In Space was hilarious as well as her Donatella Versace, and her Charlotte from Sex And The City was funny, especially with that believable performance from Christina Aguilera as Samantha. I showed people the skit from that episode and they couldn't be it was her.

There's this huge website filled with everything there is to know about SNL over the years. It's http://snl.jt.org/ It tells you the guests, the cast, what seasons they were in, what characters and inpersonations they did as well as those the guests did. I still remember the one with Molly Shannon as Monica Lewinsky and John Goodman as Linda Tripp recording their conversation while she took a shit and ate a huge bucket of KFC. Funny stuff.