In the 39th season of Saturday Night Live, many changes came to the TV show. With these new changes, it has gone from hysterical to just shaking your head.
Many of the veteran actors/ actresses retired in the last two seasons, so it has been left up to the rookies to carry on the skits. Which, so far hasn’t turned out as well as it could have.
“Everybody in the new cast makes it boring because they are unknown, other than Beck Bennett who was on the AT&T commercials. Now the only thing I enjoy watching is the monologue and weekend update,” senior Allie Vogus said.
Actors like Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudekis, Kenan Thompson as well as actress’ Kristen Wig and Amy Pohler were hilarious and fit the SNL job perfectly. They were a mix between funny and serious, while also trying to put on the best skit possible.
As each cast member retired, a new rookie stepped in. No matter how hard they were trained to fit the job, it will honestly never be the same. Many of the new actors and actresses try way too hard to be funny and make the entire skit awkward.
Seth Meyers, main anchor of one of SNL’s skits “Weekend Update” has recently been introduced with one of the new rookies as a co-anchor with Meyers. Which many viewers believe is foreshadowing to Meyers’ retirement from SNL due to his announcement of hosting Late Night (a late night television talk show).
The new actors and actresses include Taran Killam, Kate McKinnon,Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, Brooks Wheelan and more.
As well as the cast changing drastically, it seems that the SNL writers have run out of ideas for each skit, as well as Weekend Update. Each week, the cast and writers of SNL put something together that is decent enough to watch, but will never be as good as it once was.
Recently, skits have relied heavily on what’s going on in the present day world, and between the government shutdown or celebrities going insane, SNL has done a poor job covering the news in a lighthearted and funny manner.
Another major issue with the new season is the lack of popular and decent music choices. SNL has musical guests on their show that no one knows about and that doesn’t even perform well. There used to be the most popular artist on each show every week, and now SNL is resorting to the bands or artists that no one knows about, because again, it seems like they are running out of ideas.
Ranging from the popular Katy Perry, to a not so popular band, the new Arcade Fire; SNL has gone down in ratings from the cast in 2010.
For as long as it’s been on the air, celebrities always claim that it is an honor to be asked to host SNL. But how many time should one person host it? Last season, SNL featured a skit called the “5-timers club” and it featured the celebrities that have hosted SNL 5 or more times. The most recent inductee, Justin Timberlake, received the 5 time host honor that episode, but whens enough?
Although, some people are more adapt to change than others and like the new cast along with the new skits and ideas.
“I think the new cast is funny because they bring something new to the show and the recruiters of SNL are selective in the people they choose to be on their show. And so far, some new cast like Brooks Wheelen stand out and add their personality into the show.” junior Lee Hayes said.
Hopefully the season will turn around soon and the rookies will get the ropes of the show as well as more ideas will come to the writers as they plan the skits.