Channel Frederator Blog

You can really tell that Saturday Night Live is jumping on the bandwagon of cheesy Internet humor, which is smart considering the growing demographic. Though I admit I laughed pretty hard at this, it is just kind of sad to see the direction humor is going these days. SNL has not been that funny in a long time and the Digital Shorts are one of the few things that make me laugh on the show, but it just feels like these days we’re replacing smart humor with stupid humor. I guess I just long for the days when it was the actors and their characters that made SNL funny, like Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley. I probably couldn’t tell you the name of one actor or one reoccurring character from the past four seasons of SNL, except for the Falconer skit, which hardly got any play. It will be interesting to see how our sense of humor will change with the overflow of technology and the capability of anyone being able to get themselves out there and its impact on networks and TV programs. On the bright side, it’s nice to know that if you want to be a writer for SNL you don’t have to graduate from Harvard anymore, or have a college degree for that matter.

-Hadley