The churn at SNL

[Mik]

Not sure I understand the issue here. The coming and going has been the norm for SNL since its inception. It's been the springboard for a whole lot of careers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/saturday-night-live-returns-acknowledges-concern-over-churn/ar-AA12uGbX?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=40deb90dcd044cd686bec0e925d114a5

[Jolly]

Nope, they do a few years and then move on.

[George K]

[Mik]

@George-K I cannot believe someone actually graphed that

[Jolly]

I know I'm a dinosaur, but has anybody in the last decade achieved any level of stardom? Or last 15 years?

[Horace]

@Jolly said in The churn at SNL:

I know I'm a dinosaur, but has anybody in the last decade achieved any level of stardom? Or last 15 years?

Pete Davidson is carrying on the tradition of self destructive pop cultural sensations.

[George K]

@Jolly said in The churn at SNL:

Or last 15 years?

Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader, Amy Pohler, Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen.

[Jolly]

Fey was last on in 2006. Meyers would work, he was last on in 2014.

The other guys, I don't know.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in The churn at SNL:

@Jolly said in The churn at SNL:

Or last 15 years?

Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader, Amy Pohler, Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen.

Sudeikis id the only one in that list that I can actually say I’ve found amusing.

[Copper]

I recognize most of the names in the first third of the list.

And almost none in the third third.

[Horace]

I have loved Kristen Wiig in everything I’ve seen her in.

[George K]

@Jolly

Sudeikis is starring in Ted Lasso - Three Emmy awards
Bill Hader stars in "Barry" a very dark comedy (?) about a hitman.
Tina Fey's been all over TV, and yeah, that's 16 years, not 15, LOL.
Armisen - "Portlandia"
Maya Rudolph (Minnie Ripperton's daughter, btw) is currently starring in "Loot." an Apple TV comedy.

So, yeah, there's been successes, to be sure.

However, I have to agree, for the most part with @copper.

[Doctor Phibes]

Music nowadays is terrible too. And don’t get me started on modern fashion!

[89th]

There have definitely been some core "groups" that generally started and stopped about the same time, and I would argue made some of the better seasons of SNL... late 70s, mid-80s, mid-90s, and late 2000s... but there is a larger cast it seems lately, with changes, so it does feel less consistent.

I think also SNL faces an insane amount of streaming/alternate pressures that no longer makes it a weekly staple of entertainment that some used to rely on it for.

That being said, I watched a little bit of it last weekend for the first time in probably 10 years. Ironic.