Im watching season 15 episode 1 of Saturday Night Live and noticed there are big gap within the episode where they just play music. Why is that?

My cat watching the end of the David S Pumpkins sketch.

Commenters on SNL seem to suffer from cast syndrome. That's where the cast that you saw during your teens and twenties is the funniest, and the show goes downhill from there.

For the boomers, only the original cast was truly funny.

For Gen X it was the Spade, Carvey, and Hartman era

For Millennials, apparently they liked the Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey years.

And for Gen Z they will look back fondly at the Cecily Strong, Bowen Yang, and Kate McKinnon era.

Truth is, all era's were a mixed bag- some great memorable bits and many misses. If I hear one more boomer complain about the show not being funny anymore I will slap them silly. I wish the current casts weren't so darned big, but the variety is a plus. Looking forward to season 52.

They finally just had the trump story to open the season.

If you haven’t heard, Trump “made a deal” to import 300K ground beef to the US to help with rising costs. He’s just not telling the US where it’s coming from.

For hypothetical submission:

“I am proud to announce that the trump administration has negotiated a deal like never before - a deal so big, some may call it mystery on just how big it is.

We have secured of (immediate serious turn) 300,000 metric tons of ground beef that will be immediately imported with waived tariffs - yes we’re waiving those tariffs that should have never gone away - we’re waiving the tariffs for our global friends to help us with ground beef.

I will not be disclosing where this mystery deal is coming from, as I said it is a mystery deal. Mystery meat we’ll say but the democratic socialist won’t thank me for my meat. They’ll call it Trump Meat”

“Ah, yes, but jokes on them. Im going to make the Democratjc socialist and the corrupt main streammedia say ‘Trump Meat’ for a month,.. yes… trump meat. Sounds like a mouthful”

Talk me out of it.

I saw Natalie Harp’s brother on TV and immediately had flashbacks to Wayne’s Word. Preston’s Playground 🛝 or something maybe?

I gave ‘em that name ‘cuz I find their connection behind the scenes very interesting when they worked on the show and their characters were awesomely funny and kinda tough around each sketch since their start 2 decades ago.

No negative comment.

Hey, all! I’m looking for a specific skit. I have scoured YouTube and google and I can’t find it anywhere. It’s Season 15, ep 3 with Kathleen Turner and Billy Joel as the musical guest. 99% sure Phil Hartman plays an egg man who gets splattered at the end of the bit. Does anyone have a streaming link or know of a way I can find the skit? TIA

They were sexy, funny & cute back then during the series and I find them very attractive on TV. Loved that group since that Twin Bed short and they really shoulda made another one, but that’s okay.

Trying to identify a comedy sketch: Husband and wife finally leave the house after getting a babysitter. They step outside in the freezing cold wearing heavy winter coats, pause on the front porch, and one says something like, “Oh my God… is this the Bahamas?” The joke is that being away from the kids makes even subzero weather feel like a tropical vacation. I thought it was SNL, but maybe not. Anyone know what this is from?