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Dignan: Good lord, I'd hate to see the other 25. They must be depressingly unfunny.

Yeah, Dignan, but if you ever thought, "man, that skit looks like it was written in about ten minutes" you now know that it probably was!

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Tony: Did they also investigate why the show continues to suck in recent years?


Actually, Tony, here's a little-known secret. The show has always sucked. But at first you were too young to notice, and after that selective memory has made you forget some of the dreck of the past.

Actually, in my opinion, the show is better now than it was a few years ago. In fact, around the 23rd-24th season it was so damn lousy that I thought they were just holding on so they could do a 25th anniversary show and then kill it off.
It's not as good now as it was in the mid-late-80's or as it was in the late 70's.
But it's certainly much better now than it was in the early 80's. It stank so bad at that point I have no idea how they ever made it to the 10th season. (Case in point: if you ever catch a re-run from that era, notice how many cast members justly remained unknowns. Also note how every single skit from that era is based on the (flawed) premise "if I say something three times, that makes it funny; and saying it five times is a laugh riot.")

Today, Tina Fey is funny, and they've managed to pare off some of their more annoying cast members over the last few seasons.