Has it come to this? Saturday Night Live, America’s long-reigning arbitre de l’élégance1 is being laughed at by the great unwashed for its fat-assed bourgeosity and likely fear of offending “big stars”? That ’tis true ’tis pity, and pity ’tis, ’tis true. Last Saturday SNL ran the “cold opening” shown above, banally riffing on the…
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Lorne Michaels is funny!
For the past 40 years, Lorne Michaels has been a veritable King of Komedy, helping American TV to grow up with the more than legendary first four seasons of Saturday Night Live back in the seventies and then returning to helm the show from the mid-eighties to the present. But in all that time, I’ve…