What are you binge watching?

[nelsonmuntz]

So I have Peacock channel for the next month getting it for the game and then I also recently watched the SNL movie on Netflix. Figured I’d get around to watching the original season of Saturday Night Live today and got through a bunch of the first episodes. Super cool to watch the beginning stages of that show, it really was a ground breaker. Some of the skits are kind of cheesy or dated or not really that funny, but you could see what they were trying to do with the show.

Comedy often doesn’t age well.

I think of those early seasons as almost a history lesson of a huge cultural break occurring in America. SNL and National Lampoon were revolutionary compared to the silly, and deeply misogynistic humor of shows like Laugh In that came right before it.

 

[Deepster]

Comedy often doesn’t age well.

I think of those early seasons as almost a history lesson of a huge cultural break occurring in America. SNL and National Lampoon were revolutionary compared to the silly, and deeply misogynistic humor of shows like Laugh In that came right before it.

Good call. I can’t say I laughed a ton at those episodes but I was still interested seeing how the show was put together originally. And highlighting someone like Andy Kaufman certainly pushed an envelope back then.

 

[ZooCougar]

The new Vietnam Doc on Apple is super. Episodes are short and they cover quite a few things that many people didn’t know about.

It’s mostly about the war’s impact on Americans but quite a few Vietnamese are interviewed.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Good call. I can’t say I laughed a ton at those episodes but I was still interested seeing how the show was put together originally. And highlighting someone like Andy Kaufman certainly pushed an envelope back then.

Michael O’Donoghue was crazier than Kaufman, if that is possible, and he was head writer. The show got more professional in Lorne Michaels 2.0, and I think it got more consistent.