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The season premiere of Saturday Night Live was last Saturday.  Unfortunately I was not able to watch it live, so therefore I’m a bit late in talking about it.  It’s currently beginning its 37^th season and it’s still going strong. Well, sort of.  Many people have different opinions about SNL, especially older people.  Anytime you ever mention the show to an adult they will always respond with something like, “Oh, that show used to be good!” or “The writing was way better back in my day,” or of course the response “my generation was the best one.”  We all think our generation on SNL was the best. So get over it! One thing I would like to stress to these critics is the fact that comedy is always changing to fit the demographic.  This show is all about American culture, which is evolving every day.  Do you think the same people that were watching it in the 80’s are still watching today? No! So why do you want the show to still act like they are? I don’t know.  Us young kids are watching SNL now, so you need to give it up.  Or, try to keep an open mind.  I know, you’re going to miss pin heads, Wayne’s World, or the church lady, (yes, I am just reciting random skits that I know off the top of my head) but there’s only so long that you can stretch bits like that out.

Speaking of the church lady, last year one of the SNL legends Dana Carvey hosted.  In his monologue he brought up this same topic, suggesting that there is more than one good generation. Of course then he slipped in that his was the best and sang a song about it. But we get that he’s obviously joking and that people need to loosen up about it and for gosh sake’s stop complaining! Here’s a clip of the monologue:

Watching the season premiere of SNL got me really excited.  I remember 3 years ago (wow has it really been that long?) when the presidential elections were going on and it was a really fun year.  We got to see the great Tina Fey impersonate Sarah Palin alongside other great actors, such as Amy Poehler as Hilary Clinton and Katie Couric, Fred Armisen as Barack Obama, Will Ferrell as George W. Bush and many others in awesome political sketches.  For me, that really made the presidential election exciting.  So what political skits does this year have in store for us?  Well, it’s not the election year so we’ll have to wait for next season. But don’t worry! If you saw the premiere, or any SNL show for that matter, you know there is almost always a political sketch.  Last Saturday was no exception with the cold open of the republican candidates in yet another debate. Not making fun of how many debates SNL has, but how many these candidates have (I mean come on, how many has there been?).  I really enjoyed this sketch, not only because it was written well, but because the actors did a really good job of portraying the character.  The makeup, I might add, did a fantastic job.  Some of them really looked similar to the actual candidate.

The rest of the episode was pretty good, but there definitely have been better.  It was interesting to see Alec Baldwin hosting for a record of 16 times, breaking Steve Martin’s record who paid him a visit during the monologue.  By the way, the monologue was not very good which surprised me considering the great actors incorporated. Oh and also somehow Seth Rogen got mixed into this too.  The premieres and finales are always supposed to be great, but this one just somehow didn't suffice.  Of course it had it’s great moments such as the Baldwin impersonating Tony Bennett on the Weekend Update and the fake perfume commercial with the very funny Kristen Wiig.  


Maybe not the perfect start to the season, but I'm not worried. Whether SNL has a skit that flops, or a clip that goes viral, it's going to be here for awhile, and it's always going to have something that makes us laugh again.