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You had to remind me that SNL used to be funny, huh?

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About a decade ago, they finally released the entirety of the origninal SNL. I watched it all and was actually stunned at how funny and absolutely prescient that series was. A lot of it went over my head as a kid, I just liked the goofy stuff, but there was a lot of political subtext that is worth going back to watch even now.

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This should be played everywhere as an act of subversion. Give the DEI folks strokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ

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I watched early SNL all the time...and All in the Family, The JeffersonтАЩs, etc. Without humor, society may as well be dead!

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Is there anyone in this present company who remembers Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman spoofing "Random Harvest?" Oh children, what you've missed...

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Lmao! тАЬGone With the WindтАЭ was THE BEST! I watched this show every weekend as a kid. I feel sorry for kids now. They canтАЩt laugh at anything.

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I loved that! With the curtain rod across her shoulders. ЁЯШВЁЯдгЁЯШВЁЯдг

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I saw it in the window and just had to have it.

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that makes me laugh even now

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Right on Bandit!!!!ЁЯдгЁЯШВЁЯдг

https://youtu.be/OSV-fFE45Tc?si=BqVYE67eK7CR5q1X

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I don't remember the "Random Harvest" part, but, OMG!, that show slayed me! And I was only 12.

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I do remember seeing that before. I just didn't remember the name.

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Harvey and Tim together were a riot.

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Red Skeleton and Ed Sullivan! Red was my favorite because my grandpa was just like him. Funny and kind.

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There was hilarity without viciousness. To be sure, I don't mind vicious humor when it's aimed at the correct target. But joyous silliness is a wonderful thing.

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I got Red SkeletonтАЩs autograph when I was a little girl, at the Dunes Restaurant in Palm Springs, CA. He was much older and his date was much younger.ЁЯШЙ What talent and amazing humor he gave to the world!

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I got ahold of some 'best of Burnett' stuff and showed it to my kid (well, 30 year old kid). We had a blast. My god, I didn't know how adult some of that stuff was. I saw that originally as a kid and loved Tim Conway for the 'Oldest Man' and 'Mrs Ha-wiggins' sketches. I recently caught their send up of 'Valley of the Dolls' on YouTube. Comedy Gold.

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Best of the best! Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Carol Burnett and later, Vicky Lawrence ("Mama's Family"). Tim Conway was an incredible ad libber, and the rest of the cast could barely contain themselves. Like the famous "elephant" scene...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uasRKdYZ4xQ

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My bad! I thought it already was dead.

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An actual funny skit from SNL! It must have been from the 70s.

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1975. You never know what you got till it's gone.

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dead honkyЁЯШВback when you could say things without the world melting

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No kidding.

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Heck, I'm surprised it's allowed on you tube.

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We gotta cherish these things while we can (and make secret archives...)

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Thank you

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This was always my favourite skit. Over the last 3 years I think this sums up modern medicine. Especially the last part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ

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The one with a doctor I still think about is the one where the couple goes to the doctor to concieve a baby and gets offered all these genetic options for the child,

Like 'do you want a boy or a girl?'

'A boy.'

'Do you want him to be (something with a degree) or a welder?'

'Hmmm, a Welder sounds good, good career..'

'Do you want the baby to have a normal head or a shrimp head?'

(Confusion) 'A SHRIMP head?'

' Well, the welding goggles will fit better...'

(Couple nodding together emphatically) 'Oh yes a shrimp head, that sounds great....'

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Still not funny.

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Try watching тАЬLaugh InтАЭ...this is my SNL for you!

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My parents wouldn't let me watch it, but i saw at friends houses. Pretty much all I remember is Arte Johnson (?) doing the 'verrry interesting' thing and he and Ruth Buzzi as the old people on the park bench. I also remember Lily Tomlin doing her Ernestine character, but I don't know if it was from that show or another one (like Sonny and Cher).

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I know, right?

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When we tell the little ones that TV used to make us laugh out loud until we were crying, they're gonna think it's one o' those whoppers the old folks like to tease 'em with.

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their timing is so bad. comedy 101: brevity is the soul of wit but skits on SNL drone on forever

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Sometimes a long-building story can be hilarious but the payoff must be worth it.

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i've never seen it be worth it on SNL. then again i'm one of those people who only thought it was funny in the first year and haven't watched it since

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