Saturday Night Live
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White people hate Saturday Night Live. At least they say they hate Saturday Night Live.
Actually white people love Saturday Night Live. They watch it all the time. They just won’t admit.
Saturday Night Live is a comfort to white people. The sketch-comedy show has hardly changed since it debuted on NBC on October 11th, 1975. After 33 years and 640 shows, SNL is still airing at same time, on the same night, using the same format and some of the same jokes.
Sure the actors have changed, but that really doesn’t count since they all look alike anyway.
Saturday Night Live contains three things white people love (four if you count reruns with Will Ferrell). Those three things are: satire, parody and irony. White people like their derision delivered indirectly. Why be forthright with your opinions when you can just allude to them several times in a seven minute sketch starring Anne Hathaway.
However, Saturday Night Live is long past its prime. It’s bloated, inconsistent and antiquated. Its sketches are too long and laughs are too far apart. While it monitors pop culture, it has long ceased being relevant. It’s turned into the exact thing it was designed to ridicule.
That’s why white people love to say they hate Saturday Night Live. They have to in order to appear cool, hip and edgy. Admitting one watches SNL would be disastrous to one’s reputation. Not only that, but who wants to admit they’re home on a Saturday Night watching television?
So the next time a white person says they hate Saturday Night Live and don’t watch it, just give them a wink and say, “good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.”
1:45 pm
Everybody hates it, but they love to quote it… They become closet SNLers…
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4:27 pm
You nailed it!
For so long I’ve been wondering why my DVR is working away on Saturday night when it could be out partying with me. There is just enough to keep me hooked after all of these years, and there is also just enough to keep me from really enjoying what seemed to be so great back in the day.
If I were to go back and watch those first episodes that got me hooked as a teenager, I would probably find the SNL of yesteryear was probably much like it is today. Yeah, it’s the same as you say, but also being bloated, ridiculous and celebrating itself more than just critiquing the status-quo and bringing parody to a new level.
I hate that show. I mean, I love it. Like a girlfriend you can’t break up with, it stays with me. No wait I hate it. Damn!
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8:33 pm
It only takes me about 30 minutes to watch SNL now and 20 minutes of that is spent fast fowarding through the recorded episodes.
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7:31 am
I do NOT love it. (Ah, the freedom to lie w/o guilt.) I just, uhm, periodically watch it because someone else is and I might pass through the room at the same time. That’s all.
Signed,
A bloated, inconsistant and antiquated fan.
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12:55 pm
It’s one of those forms of entertainment that ties people together. Though it’s not funny 85% of the time and could easily be classified as a big waste of time, it’s watched because this friend watches it, and this friend watches it, and this relative watches it, so in order to carry a conversation come Monday about SNL, it has to be watched. Right?
Honestly, I only watch it when the host is one of my favorites. It’s usually disappointing even then.
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