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SNL (Saturday Night Live) should change its name to (SNWILONIS)

Every now and again, I try to watch Saturday Night Live. I've been largely unimpressed with the sketches in recent years, but will try to watch it once every month or two to see if any needed improvements have been made. I watched it last night, largely due to the rock band Muse being the musical guest. They were great, but as for the show itself? For lack of a better word, it sucked. The Weekend Update seems to be the most consistently funny segment on the show. The sketches, though, made me cringe at times and in the off-chance that one exceeded my progressively lowering of expectations, my reaction was typically something like this - "Eh, that wasn't awful." Yeah, I'm thinking the name of the show should be altered from SNL to SNWILONIS, which stands for Saturday Night Whether It's Live Or Not - It Sucks.
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  1. HippieGirlOctober 8, 2012 at 3:52 PM

    I liked the episode from May 19, 2012. Mick Jagger was on it and it was kind of cool. I've never seen Mick do stuff like that. Kinda weird seeing him do funny stuff

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  2. The RozOctober 8, 2012 at 4:45 PM

    Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to check that out. I meant to watch that, but think I was out of town that weekend. I imagine it had to be a tad odd seeing ol' Mick hosting SNL as opposed to just being the musical guest.

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  3. HippieGirlOctober 9, 2012 at 7:43 AM

    Yeah, it was weird seeing him do that, be host and sing. But he wasn't the only one performing. Arcade Fire was performing with him. They did some old Rolling Stones songs. And I have to say that I like it better when Mick does them with The Stones. Arcade Fire makes them too freaking weird and heavy metal-y. They did the song The Last Time and they played almost so fast that Mick had to keep up and I could not understand him and when they did It's Only Rock and Roll, crap, I could not understand a word Mick said.

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  4. The RozOctober 9, 2012 at 10:25 AM

    Huh, well, that's kind of strange. I think I too would have preferred to see Mick with The Stones as opposed to Arcade Fire. Perhaps I'll just have to bypass the musical performances of that show and just check out the sketches.

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