Saturday Night Live cuts Horatio Sanz, Chris Parnell, and that other guy.

Chris Parnell schtick got old fast, what this another ridiculious rap song, he might as well just have done a bunch of "white people are different then black people" jokes. Everyone who works on SNL is pretty lucky, all they have to do is turn out one funny thing every 2-3 show and everyone slurpps it up like free kool-aid. With cable TV looking to fill so many timeslots with original programing anyone with a ounce of talent is quickly given their own show without having to resort to sharing facetime on a show who's premise completely died somewhere around '94.

 

Those animated clips used to be funny,but they have gone down the drain, just like Weekend Update, the cast, the show...

 

Yup, every single year people say SNL sucks. Ever since Eddie Murphy left, I've been hearing people say it. Yet SNL keeps chugging along pumping out stars after stars.

The thing about SNL is there might only be 1 or 2 good skits ...and the rest of the show is garbage. It's ALWAYS been like that ...even in the Eddie Murphy days. But when SNL does something good, it is really really good.

For example, the semi-recent Debbie Downer skit. That was a classic.

So SNL is like your favorite sports team. There are some highs and many lows.

I just tivo it and FF through most of it.

 

They weren't exactly cut. SAnz, and Fey left to work on 30 Rock. I am not sure about Parnell, but I thought he was funny. I liked Horatio as well.

Bill Hayder and Samberg are both funny as well. Though even with those people I like, good skits seemed to be the exception rather than the rule.

 

I stopped watching when Danny Kaye left.

 

He did go to work on it. Whether it was as a writer or actor, I don't know.

 

I don't think it is the cast being degraded so much as the fact that society has become so much more used to irony/satire/parody over the past few years that their thunder is stolen.

MAD Magazine used to be a big deal, til the Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy came along.

Same with SNL - its brand of humor was unique.....until it wasn't anymore.

For the record, I thought Horatio Saenz sucked ass.

 

SNL is designed to be watched with a dvr. If you can fly past the crap and get a few good skits it can be worth your while.

 

From the Tina Fey, Horatio Sanz, Amy P at a comedy show I went to. Maybe they were kidding about Sanz being part of it.

 

I'm going to miss Parnell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_lZeaGGyG0

 

Over the years there have been a few diamonds in the rough, but honestly SNL hasn't ever been consistently funny since the original cast. That was some brilliant comedy, week in and week out.

 

Chris Kataan? Maya Rudolph? You aren't exactly making a good case for SNL here pal.

 

I enjoyed Horatio. Losing TF is a giant blow...er...calm down DonnyMost...

SNL always cycles, and sometimes they don't recognize the talent they have. Julia Louis Dreyfuss was not on the 'inside' so never got skits... Chris Rock, even Eddie Murphy were underutilized (does anyone even remember Ben Stiller on SNL?)

 

I think I'm in the minority here but I actually liked Horatio Sanz. He pretty much always played the same character, fat clueless lout, but it often worked. I particularly liked his Khalid Sheikh Muhammed immitation which I thought was a great spin on the mugshot of him.



"Look at me I'm a damn bear..!"

 

SNL was pretty good last season, so I'm looking forward to this year. "Lazy Sunday" was awesome!

 

I liked Horatio overall, but it's his time to go. Finesse was barely on there, but i don't think it was a travestly like with Chris Rock. Chris Parnell has been pretty steady in my opinion and I think they should have kept him. He was fired once before and came right back in the same season, so it's no surprise that with having to make a cut because of budget reasons, Michaels would have Parnes in his sights.

 

Ditto. I'm going to miss that guy.