The Untold Truth Of SNL's Forgotten Season
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Date: 2020-07-14
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Okoboji
Season six was absolutely god awful terrible. The show was the same in name only. NBC made a huge mistake in letting Lorne Michaels go, all because he wanted a six month hiatus so that he could get together a new ensemble cast. After Jean Doumanian was fired and Dick Ebersol became producer, the show wasnt as terrible, but it certainly wasnt that good either. It was only when Lorne Michaels came back and was able to learn from his mistakes made in season 11 (1985-86, that SNL became funny again. The second golden age of SNL was 1986-91. If NBC-Universal put those seasons out on DVD or Blu-Ray, Id buy each of those seasons.
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Season six was absolutely god awful terrible. The show was the same in name only. NBC made a huge mistake in letting Lorne Michaels go, all because he wanted a six month hiatus so that he could get together a new ensemble cast. After Jean Doumanian was fired and Dick Ebersol became producer, the show wasnt as terrible, but it certainly wasnt that good either. It was only when Lorne Michaels came back and was able to learn from his mistakes made in season 11 (1985-86, that SNL became funny again. The second golden age of SNL was 1986-91. If NBC-Universal put those seasons out on DVD or Blu-Ray, Id buy each of those seasons.
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Brooks
I've suffered through a few of the episodes from this era, and man oh man, it's a wonder the show survived that era. It's worse than bad. In my opinion the show didn't become funny until the second half of the 80's when Carvey, Lovitz, Hartman, Hooks, Jackson, and Nealon took over. There just wasn't anyone funny on the cast for the first half of the 80's. So many of the sketches are really juvenile, and the others just, well, they're just not even close to funny.
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I've suffered through a few of the episodes from this era, and man oh man, it's a wonder the show survived that era. It's worse than bad. In my opinion the show didn't become funny until the second half of the 80's when Carvey, Lovitz, Hartman, Hooks, Jackson, and Nealon took over. There just wasn't anyone funny on the cast for the first half of the 80's. So many of the sketches are really juvenile, and the others just, well, they're just not even close to funny.
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da
I remember this season of SNL because it became must see to believe how bad it is TV. There's one sketch late in the season with Kazurinsky as this guy trying to get a girl to go out with him. He keeps doing all the wrong things and then just says Oh, Jeez! It seemed to go on forever getting no laughs before finally ending with a commercial break. But after the break it came back to part 2 of the same sketch, same catchphrase same no laughs anywhere.
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I remember this season of SNL because it became must see to believe how bad it is TV. There's one sketch late in the season with Kazurinsky as this guy trying to get a girl to go out with him. He keeps doing all the wrong things and then just says Oh, Jeez! It seemed to go on forever getting no laughs before finally ending with a commercial break. But after the break it came back to part 2 of the same sketch, same catchphrase same no laughs anywhere.
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billsav57
This really was a horrible show. I think Elliott Gould was a terrible choice to host the first show and got it off to a horrible start; he kept acting like was some sort of guru working with a bunch of amateurs. I dont know how they thought Denny Dillon would be the breakout star. The writing was awful. I think Charles Rocket was badly misused, too. Gottfried, Murphy and Piscopo couldnt break out with that material.
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This really was a horrible show. I think Elliott Gould was a terrible choice to host the first show and got it off to a horrible start; he kept acting like was some sort of guru working with a bunch of amateurs. I dont know how they thought Denny Dillon would be the breakout star. The writing was awful. I think Charles Rocket was badly misused, too. Gottfried, Murphy and Piscopo couldnt break out with that material.
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bigbabysld
back then we were kids and we would stay up every saturday night just to see EDDIE, we could care less about the rest of the show. Eddie was actually our 1st introduction into SNL, and lets be honest this was not the worst season of SNL, remember when ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL and ROBERT DOWNEY JR was on SNL for a season. THAT SHIT WAS GOD AWFUL!
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back then we were kids and we would stay up every saturday night just to see EDDIE, we could care less about the rest of the show. Eddie was actually our 1st introduction into SNL, and lets be honest this was not the worst season of SNL, remember when ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL and ROBERT DOWNEY JR was on SNL for a season. THAT SHIT WAS GOD AWFUL!
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Gin
I went to the US as an exchange student for a year in 80/81, and the one thing I was really excited about was finally getting to see the mythical SNL. only to be bemused, confused and disappointed, and thinking that the show was clearly unfunny and overrated. Im actually relieved to see this and realise that I just lucked out for that one season
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I went to the US as an exchange student for a year in 80/81, and the one thing I was really excited about was finally getting to see the mythical SNL. only to be bemused, confused and disappointed, and thinking that the show was clearly unfunny and overrated. Im actually relieved to see this and realise that I just lucked out for that one season
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Noah
SNL has been awful for decades. I gave up on it in the 90s and a few times a year when visiting my elderly parents they will turn it on, but never watch more than a few segments before tuning away in disgust/disappointment. I think their generation is the only one that even remembers the SNL golden age and refuses to give up on it completely.
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SNL has been awful for decades. I gave up on it in the 90s and a few times a year when visiting my elderly parents they will turn it on, but never watch more than a few segments before tuning away in disgust/disappointment. I think their generation is the only one that even remembers the SNL golden age and refuses to give up on it completely.
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doggfacejr
Jim Carrey and John Goodman actually auditioned for that season. Imagine if they had been hired. I think they would have gone on to the 81-82 season along with Murphy and Piscopo. And then if John Candy and Catherine O' Hara had joined the cast that following season as originally planned, talk about a dream cast.
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Jim Carrey and John Goodman actually auditioned for that season. Imagine if they had been hired. I think they would have gone on to the 81-82 season along with Murphy and Piscopo. And then if John Candy and Catherine O' Hara had joined the cast that following season as originally planned, talk about a dream cast.
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Steve
In 1980 I was telling a friend how bad I felt SNL had become, and she argued But they just started-you have to give them time! This argument was so wrong-headed that I wasn't sure how to reply, but I should have said THE NETWORK DOESN'T WANT THE SHOW TO BE GOOD! THEY WANT LOWEST-COMMON DENOMINATOR JUNK!
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In 1980 I was telling a friend how bad I felt SNL had become, and she argued But they just started-you have to give them time! This argument was so wrong-headed that I wasn't sure how to reply, but I should have said THE NETWORK DOESN'T WANT THE SHOW TO BE GOOD! THEY WANT LOWEST-COMMON DENOMINATOR JUNK!
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