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I dont even watch anymore. Its predecessors set the bar too high.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html
well... if some people thought SNL wasn't funny anymore before, now its definately going to suck. Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz were the best in there IMO. Its good the Darrell Hammond is coming back, but I don't think its enoughNEW YORK (AP) -- Seth Meyers gets the plum job of "Weekend Update" anchor next to Amy Poehler in a newly streamlined "Saturday Night Live" this season, the show's creator and executive producer, Lorne Michaels, said on Thursday.
Meyers, entering his fifth season on the late-night ins ution, must replace the popular Tina Fey on the fake-news anchor desk. Like Fey, Meyers will also be one of the show's head writers.
Four cast members auditioned for the gig, but Michaels said Meyers' writing ability and his chemistry with Poehler made the difference. Meyers has acted with Poehler in a recurrent sketch about "The Needlers," a bickering couple who should be divorced.
Also like Fey, Meyers will primarily appear only on "Weekend Update" each week.
The repertory comedy will have 11 cast members this season, down from 16. Fey has gone on to make the new NBC prime-time comedy "30 Rock," bringing fellow cast member Rachel Dratch with her. Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz, who both joined "SNL" in 1997, and three-year cast member Finesse Mitc will not be returning.
The stripped-down cast was driven, in part, by the need to cut costs, Michaels told The Associated Press. Given a choice by NBC executives of making fewer shows or having fewer people, he said he chose the latter.
"The show, like a garden that gets overgrown, at a certain point needed to be pruned," he said. "We've done it at six or seven points in the past. You get a bulge in the budget."
The cast of essentially 10 players is "a great size because everyone gets enough playing time," he said.
By adding six cast members in the past two years, "SNL" went through one of its periodic transformations. But it has been able to do it smoothly, without jolting changes that confuse viewers, Michaels said. Returning cast member Darrell Hammond, for instance, has been there for a decade.
"The show has succeeded and prospered to some degree on its ability to reinvent itself," Michaels said, "and this was a time for everything to be re-examined."
One of "SNL's" biggest moments last season was the rap parody "Lazy Sunday," with cast members Andy Samberg and Parnell talking about cupcakes and "The Chronicles of Narnia." The video short became a big hit when distributed online in the days after its appearance.
Other returning cast members include Fred Armisen, Will Forte, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson and Kristin Wiig.
"SNL" opens its season on September 30, with comic Dane Cook as guest host and the Killers as musical act.
I dont even watch anymore. Its predecessors set the bar too high.
its just natural nowadays for the best cast members to try their luck in the Hollywood scene. It would be nice to have had the best ones stay longer, but then we wouldn't have Beverly Hills Cop, Austin Powers, the Water Boy, Anchorman, etc.
Fred Armisen, Andy Sanberg and Will Forte are semi-funny, the rest are painful to watch
SNL has been unwatchable for the last several years.
SNL blows. MadTV is way better, as far as sketch comedies go.
Has been that way for quit some time. I miss In Living Color, that was the greatest.
How much longer are they going to continue to beat that dead horse?
i would say mr show was tippy top.
I can't imagine how Tina Fey was popular...she was stupid. One of the worst Weekend Update anchors along with Dennis Miller and that Colin dude.
this show is still in the air?
I thought the same thing. I thought it was cancelled years ago...
Chappelle owned SNL.
They need to bring back Norm MacDonald to do Weekend Update. That is the only way I will ever watch that show again.
Geez, that's gonna suck. I've only seen a handful of episodes in the last year, and I may just stop watching it altogether. Horatio Sanz has always been dead weight as the token loud fat guy, but the rest of the losses are gonna put that show completely in the toilet. Parnell's raps were some of the funniest stuff I've seen and Rachel Dratch was one of the few funny females they've had on that show in a long time. I actually liked Tina Fey on update, though she'd go out of her way to bash Dubya, which would be fine if it were funny, but most of the time it was not.
I always wondered if this show would ever die, and it's looking more and more like it will.
, although I thought Colin Quinn was pretty funny.
When Daryll Hammond leaves, the show will seriously get cancelled two seasons after. He's the only one left that ever does good impressions (and his are really good) and he's the only one from the peak of the Will Ferrell era.
Which once again proves my theory.
Germans.Love.David.Hasselhoff.
SNL blows
SNL might as well be Terry Schiavo.
Horatio Sanz was not funny.
Wouldn't it be great if they did one season with all the stars from the past: Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Chevy Chase, Will Farrell, Billy Crystal, etc, etc, etc
it's lost it's edge. i hope it finds it again.
I love Horatio Sanz. He reminds me of my first boyfriend.
No it wouldn't. Most of those guys are way past their prime and aren't funny anymore.
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