Is it time for NBC to cancel "Saturday Night Live"

Thirty years and it has seen lots of ups and downs, but with more cable stations and others doing satire as well or much better than SNL, is it time to put the show to bed?

Last time I watched the show was just because they had Jackie Chan on. Afterwards we actually felt ill. We thought about writing Jackie a letter of appology.

At this point, I don't think even a wholesale cast and writer change would help. "SNL" just has been on too damn long. They could do a wholesale cast and writer change and completely re-vamp the format of the show (opening skit, monologue, Weekend Update, musical guest, really lame skit, musical guest again, unbearable to watch final lame skits). Of course, then it wouldn't be "Saturday Night Live"

Best just to kill it.

even though I very rarely watch it anymore. After all, it's been around since I was a kid.

Maybe they should fire the whole cast and all the writers and start over with people who can actually do edgy comedy.

... their own reminiscing about how hilarious it used to be in the past. They remember the skits that the loved years ago and forget all the skits from the same time the sucked.

Its just not funny.

Internal age is still undetermined though.

... your age in respect to the pop culture at the time.

I'm in my mid twenty's. I hear people reminisce about how funny the show was back in the 70's, or during the Eddie Murphy years. When I watch those episodes though I rarely laugh.

I laugh like crazy though when I see episodes from the Dana Carvey/ Phil Hartman years through the Adam Sandler/Chris Rock/Chris Farley years. I quit watching for a few years when it was really horrible but I started watching again during the Will Ferrell years until now and I still find it funny.

Some time in the past they shifted into using the one joke sketch. I actually blame Al Franken for this. Basically they will keep doing the same joke over and over again in the hopes that someone will laugh. They will grind a concept into the ground.

The problem comes from an increasing reliance on commitees to write the jokes. It kills off the spontaneity and originallity as the jokes get stuffed through lowest common denomenator demands.

Add to the mix that the advertisers get nervous around edgey material. So it gets tamed down over time.

Capitalism and art mix badly. The drive for capitalism is to make money. The drive for art is to communicate. They often come into conflict with each other. Over time capitalistic driven works of art trend towards lowest common denominator. It loses its edge of trying to communicate ideas and instead tries to fit a demographic.

But I may not be qualified to give an opinion. I stopped watching it years ago when I thought it couldn't get any worse.

I just think they need to get a whole new cast/crew and writers.

so yes. Also this stop the supply of former SNL cast members, crippling the un-funny comedy film industry.

What else would they put on at 10:35 on SAT. night?

The only time I laughed AT ALL last season was when Will Ferrell came out on stage and played cowbell with Queens Of The Stone Age.

As long as it has an audience, it will be on the air.

It pulls more viewers than Fox News, or CNN, or MSNBC.

When your competition is made-for-TV movies starring Joe Don Baker, you could run a test pattern and get better ratings.

It's so not funny.

Right after Eddie Murphy left.

Well, who am I to say? I don't watch it.