Assessing SNL’s Mid-Life Crisis

Live, from New York, it's Saturday lite

Good C1 piece today from New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman ahead of tonight’s return of Saturday Night Live with host Kevin Hart and musical guest Sia. Starting with an astute lede observation:

There is no more boring complaint than Saturday Night Live used to be funnier.

At this imminent, 40-year anniversary stage, let’s all just move on and accept the fact that SNL can never be as relevant or as cutting edge as it once and several times was.

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