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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus
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That was surprisingly funny and contemporary
That bit would still kill today,
And yea i was thinking about SNL the other day, and how it is a generational show, i was internally comparing SNL with Mr Show trying to find out why Mr show is so much better and it all came down to the cast members and their brand of humor.
SNL is not only a sketch show that changes from generation to generation it's also a mainstream sketch show, it has to be topical and it has to keep in the viewers so they have to pander to the mainstream humor of today, Andy samberg is a good exmpl of that kinda humor.
His Lonely island humor is part of this new brand of humor emerging nowadays, internet humor.
it's dumb and stupid, it's instant gratification in a Gif, the content is not funny it's just said in a funny way.
Mr show however, focused on a funny idea that is also interesting.
here is an exmpl