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Intractable

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14. SNL is between 20% and 30% funny.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #9)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 02:03 AM

Dec 2025

Most of the sketches suck, but it has been that way for decades. Most sketch comedy sucks.

It's hard stuff to write. (I have tried. I suck at it, too.)

If it were written by AI, we'd call it slop.

I've seen lots over the years from SNL that was good, biting comedy. But, one can sit through a lot of acts until there's a real laugh.

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SNL cold open: Is Trump funny anymore? [View all] Sparkly Dec 2025 OP

Trump isn't funny. Srkdqltr Dec 2025 #1

and SNL hasn't been funny for about 40 years now. Conjuay Dec 2025 #2

I disagree Skittles Dec 2025 #9

SNL is between 20% and 30% funny. Intractable Dec 2025 #14

Good point. yellow dahlia Dec 2025 #3

He isn't funny, but glad SNL, late night shows, View, etc., keep pressure up. Silent Type Dec 2025 #4

I've been saying this for years now. Initech Dec 2025 #5

Nothing is funny about a President who contributed to the deaths of 200,000 lives OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2025 #6

we don't have to go back that far Skittles Dec 2025 #10

Hard to keep count. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2025 #11

But they are mostly ... wanderer54 Dec 2025 #17

yeah i know they don't count Skittles Dec 2025 #18

I hate his face, his voice, and his mannerisms. But I love the fact that he is watching people make fun of him. Whyisthisstillclose Dec 2025 #7

My hope is that the SNL political sketches reach a lot of people who don't pay attention to the news like we do here. tanyev Dec 2025 #8

I really wanted to like Cher, really i did, but no. Srkdqltr Dec 2025 #12

Not just you.. here's another one... I Cha Dec 2025 #13

With Trump the reality outpaces parody. The real world is weirder than anything Gaugamela Dec 2025 #15

He's not funny, but laughing at him is winning. meadowlander Dec 2025 #16

No malaise Dec 2025 #19

SNL's Trump impersonation is a good one (although way too thin) but if it is not funny to us (and it is not)... hlthe2b Dec 2025 #20

Making fun of a dictator, who ended our Democratic Republic, and turned Emile Dec 2025 #21

I didn't find it funny either. Borogove Dec 2025 #22