I smirked at the opening joke. But yeah, in true SNL fashion, it's toothless. In this case, they repeated the same joke, with a bunch of nonsequiters. Pretty typical.

SNL has never been funny, at least not in my adulthood. For instance, I got chummed by YouTube, and hooked into watching Tiny Horse, which was embarrassing for both the actors and viewers alike. The the skits play like pre-recorded improv.

> Hard to comprehend how we've gone from Norm MacDonald being so relentlessly bold he was fired, to this sterility, in 30 years.

Is it, though?

Wouldn't it be more strange if the former didn't eventually lead to the latter?

Listen to a Dario interview. I think it's pretty on the mark

I didn't watch the OP. I just know most actually controversial content almost never makes it to broadcast these days.

Hating on AI or its CEO doesn't seem very risky or controversial (for now [0])

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824686

Or George Carlin - perhaps it's just me, but modern shows aren't that funny anymore.

Dario?

30 years is a long ass time. Did you miss what happened to the Simpsons over 30 years?

Man, the Simpsons stopped being funny a few years in, I have no idea what they’ve even been doing since then.

"A few years" is like ten, in their case. Homer v New York is like season 9 or 10

But it falls off very quickly after that, that it's still on the air today is elder abuse

I think they are joking. I would be surprised if someone thinks that 30 fucking years are too little time to something to change