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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yogizuna who wrote (21856)	12/7/2004 4:01:23 PM
From: Tim Bagwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Boy those were the great days of SNL when humor was crafted into interesting little stories. The Billy Goat Cafe skit was one of the most memorable. I actually visited the BGC years ago when I was in the Windy city just because it was made famous on SNL. These days, the humor on SNL is crude by comparison. They seem to have adopted a principle that if you repeat the same lame theme over and over enough times in a skit, that people will find it amusing no matter how dull the wit. And the characters that graduate to the box-office are just dumber than spit. So, if SNL is the leading edge of comic wit, it bodes a sad state of affairs for things to come. Then, they carry the principle to a Bobble-esque level of perversion by routinely scheduling repeats in an apparent attempt to double-down on a mind-numbing dose of repetition. Of the most interesting programs to ever air on 60 Minutes was a segment a couple weeks ago on the behind the scenes weekly process of producing an SNL show. I was actually impressed to hear that the cast works entirely through the night early in the week to hammer out the skits for that week. Then, working on little sleep, they get together over a big lunch and hammer out details as a large team. They spend the remaining time rehearsing the skits to work out details just hours before the final order airs on Saturday evening. It's certainly deserving of high marks for effort and work ethic. But I wonder if all that sleep deprivation and stress dulls the imagination over time?