David Marcus: At age 50, SNL should wake up and go back to joking

I have something in common with “Saturday Night Live.” We are, somehow, now 50 years old. On Sunday nights, those who aren't ready for Primetime players are holding birthday parties at live shows from New York (unfortunately not for me).

As we turn the sun for 50 years, we have a desire to look back at what went wrong in the past. What absolutely doesn't work for SNL and late-night comedy TV writing is the relatively recent, obligatory heart-wrapping.

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This issue began at the turn of the century when flexible social constraints of political correctness had been shifting to the rules of cold hardness. In other words, I was informed of the age where “it's not interesting.”

What this means for SNL, and like “The Tonight Show,” the main goal of the joke is not to cause laughs, but to make society better or something better.

In the case of SNL, the show not only censored itself in the 21st century, but also censored its own past. The best example of this is when NBC Universal banned video on the classic skit from 1977.

For a moment, Bond plays herself in a talk show where she talks about the way IQ tests are racially biased. Asked for an example of biased questions, Bond stated: “Question 1: You were invited to a cocktail by a trust fund officer. The cocktails start at 4:30, but must appear at 6am formal dinner at the Yacht Club.

Garrett Morris (Photo by NBCU Photo Bank/NBCuniversal via Getty Images; Photo: Leon Bennett/Ga/The Hollywood Reporter by Getty Images)

The whole thing is hilarious, but the reason it rubs from existence is the final punch line, with Morris asking where the idea of ​​black intellectual inferiority comes from. Dark black skin.

Decades later, Bond added that the sketch made him feel uneasy and “believed to be at risk by the tiny line between comedy and the tasteless taste,” but honestly, what? He added that he must have said that. The obvious point of the punchline is that it is ridiculous to judge a person's intelligence based on skin color.

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This is the perfect example of awakened attitude that choked most of the laughs from late-night TV comedies. Instead of burning, sometimes abrasive comedic insights, they rehash the progressive shiboles about the orange guy and rehash a good vaccine into a good vaccine.

When you look at the funniest and most successful comedians of the last 25 years, they tend to be people willing to violate the supposed taste. People like Dave Chappelle, Norm Macdonald, Ricky Gervais, and more recently Shane Gillis, have been in the hot water over what is known as offensive material.

In the “Saturday Night Live” case, producer Lorne Michaels went back to his words, and there were some indications that things were changing despite his decision to appear in Kamala Harris a few days before the election. . You can even make it across the entire line of scrimmage.

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A recent sketch featuring President Donald Trump was almost impossible four years ago, perhaps four months ago, to laugh at Hamilton superstar Rhine Manuel Miranda This is a good example of a touch that is easy to play with.

Sadly, the same cannot be said about Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Myers in the world where nocturnal obsession with abusing Trump has become everything they do. As Johnny Carson once said while roasting Don Rickles, “Don is a great comedian. I love his jokes.”

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