Saturday Night Live
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“This show sucks it hard.”
~ Oscar Wilde on Saturday Night Live
“This show is live from New York.”
~ Captain Obvious on Saturday Night Live
“Every time I watch this show it's on really late Saturday night.”
~ Captain Oblivious on Saturday Night Live
“The entire cast is extremely unfunny. They should be burned at stake.”
~ Captain Understatement on Saturday night live
“Oh yeah, that's that show that used to be funny.”
~ Chuck Norris on Saturday Night Live
“Fuck Lorne Michaels. Fuck him in the ass with Tina Fey's taser.”
~ Gnarls Barkley on why Canadians like Lorne Michaels are as funny as Tom Green
Saturday Night Live, or "SNL" (Still No Laughs) was an unfunny popular television show that aired on Tuesday nights on UPN from 1975 to 1980. Originally conceived as a comedy sketch show, it thrived in its time slot, even though it quickly went downhill as it whored itself out to many different advertisers and mediocre, unknown guests (i.e. Buck Henry, Elliot Gould, Desi Arnez, George Washington).
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[edit] Origin
In 1974, a British comedian named Monty Python, best known for wearing women's knickers and doing impersonations of Oscar Wilde (an activity now punishible by death), decided to immigrate to the United States, specifically to the state of Alaska. However, during the flight, his airplane crashed, stranding him on the desolate island of Manhattan. There, all alone, he built the station UPN, from which he hoped to broadcast a weekly television program on Saturday night.
A year later, near the completion of the station, a wanderer/hobo named Lorne Michaels made his way to New York from the Canadian province of Greenland. Impressed by Python's idea for his show, he decided to take the show for his own, killing the innocent comic by tying weights to his ankles and throwing him into the Atlantic Ocean. Now set on making the show a reality, Michaels recruited a group of people that he found funny and put them together (such as John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, and Harry Shearer, though even Michaels couldn't stand Shearer's self-important attitude and forever banned him from the island).
[edit] Premiere and Run
The show debuted Monday October 39th 1975 from Michaels' imperial palace (known only as 30 Rockefeller Center) and became a success from the beginning, mainly due to the infighting that created sketches (such as Chevy Chase's blatant Anti-Semitism, Garrett Morris s freebasing accident that led to him being severely burned, and Lorraine Newman's brief stint as King Henry VIII of England). The Brothers Gibb, a barbershop singing trio, made numerous appearances, launching their career.
Beginning with the second episode, fans began complaining that Saturday Night Live wasn't as funnay as it used to be. This was the beginning of a slow decline (marked, unfortunately, by Chevy Chase's suicide in 1976 after leaving the show, probably on the realization that he wasn't really that funny), due primarily to Michaels' paranoia (and an affair with Carrot Top, which led to a considerable loss of talent on his part).
To counter this, Michaels started to book more obscure celebrities in an attempt to have more free will to make fun of them. This led to Buck Henry holding the record for most times hosting at thirty-seven (though only two were put in records as actually "funny"). He also convinced the cast to start joining him in drug binges. However, this backfired as Akroyd and Belushi (after a good LSD trip) saw the light and (with the help of "Snake" Pliskin) escaped from New York and moved to Hollywood, where they made The Blues Brothers (considered by many to be the greatest film ever made).
[edit] End
In May 1980, as the show finished its fifth season, the drug use by the cast made it open to attack at any time. It was at this point that Harry Shearer led a coup d'etat on the island of Manhattan, helped by other, even less funny comics such as Gilbert Gottfried, Charlie Rocket, and Joe Piscopo. The coup was successful as all the cast was killed by the guillotine. However, the "new cast," as they called themselves, were revealed to not be funny after putting on an episode at the end of the season. The group committed mass suicide in June 1980, and the show was disbanded. Inexplicably, knitting needles had been run through the eye(s) of all cast and crew. The NBC peacock developed alopecia and lost its feathers and Oscar Wilde lost his virginity that very night.
Today, the remains of Michaels' palace lay in ruin on Manhattan, and much memory of the show is forgotten by today's generation. Saturday Night Live did have a spin-off called Saturday Night Dead, though. It debuted in 1980 after Saturday Night Live ended, and is supposedly still on TV, but no one really knows because no one has ever actually watched it, possibly because it isn't funny... Except for Blizzardman-- thats funny. AVERYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!! SAMMMMMYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
In a parallel universe SNL's counterpart, Friday Night Live, is currently in its twentieth season.
