To be honest, the show sucks much less in the last year or so than it has for a long time. They've gotten rid of most of their terribly unfunny performers (Ana Gasteyer, Chris Kattan, Cheri Oteri, Colin Quinn, Molly Shannon, and Will Ferrell except the occasions where he was really funny) and the writing is a little more solid than it used to be. Gone seem the days where they'd have a 30 second joke and drag it out for seven minutes. Although they are still doing the Smigel cartoons, which are seldom funny.

Last week's show was not very good, and I missed the Ashlee Simpson episode, but I've seen a number of quality SNLs in the last year or so.