I would like to say that I have been watching Saturday Night Live for 40 years, but 1. I am only 26 and 2. It never really took off in England so I have had to heavily rely on the internet for my fix. I have probably been watching the show religiously for about 3-4 years and thanks to YouTube I have now been able to watch rerun after rerun of old clips to satisfy my comedy needs. This show is genius in it's simplicity. Its a sketch show if you want to skin it to its bones. They have a celebrity guest and a musical guest every week, the sketches are about pop culture and are extremely uptodate.
I will of course always be thankful for this show for introducing me to my future wife, Miss Amy Poehler. This show has spewed out star after star; Kristen Wiig, Tina Fey, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, John Belushi to name a few. It is the holy grail of the stand up world to become a featured player on this show and it is easy to see why.
It is an amazing platform for female comediennes in particular, it punches the face's of people who say women aren't funny week after week. These women are comedy Einsteins, for me they are the stars of the greatest sketches this show does and also in a lot of cases the writers of the sketches (Tina Fey was a head writer before she left).
As I do I thought I would list a few sketches that I find particularly hilarious and make me chuckle on a daily YouTube binge. I only hope this show gets a time on English television because we are missing out on a lot, I mean a lot. I know some jokes won't transfer over here as they can talk about American Sports and Politics, but the other stuff outweighs it 10 to 1.
So here is my lil' list;
Kaitlin at The Mall
Horatio Sanz and Amy Poehler
Jacob
Vanessa Bayer
Bronx Beat
Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph
Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started A Conversation With At A Party
Cecily Strong
Target Lady
Kristen Wiig
Super Showcase
Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Vanessa Bayer
Drunk Uncle
Bobby Moynihan
Retired Pornstars
Cecily Strong and Vanessa Bayer
Heshy
Nasim Pedrad
Stefon
Bill Hader
Girlfriends Talk Show
Cecily Strong and Aidy Bryant
That is just a few of the gems of Saturday Night Live. There are too many sketches to mention, and I will wake up with regret that I didn't showcase others. It is just such and incredible show. It just celebrated 40 years, heres hoping for another 40.
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