What was your favorite era of SNL?

[Newark88]

Believe it or not, I've always been a fan of SNL since a lil kid back in the 80's. My favorite era will always be the 90-93 era with Chris Rock, Farley, Spade, Sandler, Mike Myers. My 2nd favorite is when they rebounded back from wackness around 96/97. Early 00's and the last 4 years have been cool too.

 

[Sonny Corinthos]

All the seasons are on netflix shyts ill those dvd sets are like 80 bucks a pop...another reason netflix is too good to be true.

To me the earliest seasons are the best has the more un pc comedy and all the greats were hilarious. Bill Murray, Joe Piscapo, Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy all were hilarious on snl and went on to have great careers.

The only era I cant stand is the late 80s and the middle part of the 2000s

 

[RajWatts]

chris rock/sandler/spade/farley era is definitely my fav. after that it was garbage for a few years but picked up with the will ferrell/jimmy fallon/tina fey era.

i cant front the last couple years have been some of the best SNL writing and sketches I've seen. Now with samberg and wiig gone they better have some new superstars on deck or it could go back to being garbage

 

[Swiggy]

The Rock/Sandler/Farley/Myers/Carvey/Hartmen era was the GOAT

The Ferrell/Oteri/Shannon kliq was aight and had it's moments, but wasn't seeing the previous gen.

 

[RajWatts]

jay pharoah has potential to blow up and be one of their main players, his impressions are on point but he needs some better writing

imagine if SNL brought on Affion

 

[Joe Sixpack]

All the seasons are on netflix shyts ill those dvd sets are like 80 bucks a pop...another reason netflix is too good to be true.

To me the earliest seasons are the best has the more un pc comedy and all the greats were hilarious. Bill Murray, Joe Piscapo, Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy all were hilarious on snl and went on to have great careers.
The only era I cant stand is the late 80s and the middle part of the 2000s

I agree.

The 90s era with Phil Hartman, Chris Rock, Spade, were legendary too.

Will Ferrell was off the hook as well..

 

[Newark88]

The last 4 years (from the 2008 election season onward) has been really good. But a good amount of the core cast from this recent era are not coming back in the fall, so we'll see if they can keep up the momentum.

 

[Danie84]

The era with Oteri, Katan, Ferell, Collins, Gasteyer, Fallon, Rudolph; early Fey and Poehler.

I know I butchered the names.

 

[re'up]

I started watching at a friends house in like 5th/6th grade, I don't even remember how, if it was just on TV, or maybe he had watched it before, but after that, we watched it EVERY weekend, thirty min of 'Mad TV', the straight to SNL. This was probably mid to late 1997, by 98, Will Ferrell, Norm Mcdonald was doing the weekend updates, who was like a comedy god to us, Chris Kattan (Roxbury skits, Peepers), Tim Meadows, those were the golden years for me, but a good part is the nostalgia. We were obsessed with it, taping episodes, impressions. It was such a big deal to us as kids, all of us laying on couches, or on the floor in the living room, staying up late, just cracking the fukk up. I could kill hours of my life just watching snl from that era.

I was like that til, maybe mid 01, 02, in HS I was never home at 1130 anymore, and I kinda stopped checking for it, I don't think it's very funny now, but I've gotten a few laughs on the rare occasion i check for it. My Dad said though, every generation thinks THIER snl is the best one, which makes sense to me.

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

dont sleep on the og 70s joint with chevy chase, dan akroid, steve martin, stanley from martin, ect.. I used to watch the reruns and they had some pretty good episodes.

 

[feelosofer]

The OG cast was the best generation,

but the early 90's with Chris Rock, Spade, Carvey, Mathews, Farley and Adam Sandler

the mid 90's would be #3 with Will Ferell, Chris Kattan, Mathews, Oteri and them

 

[Newark88]

The OG late 70's cast was before my time, but I have caught some of the reruns in the past. I started paying attention to SNL when Eddie Murphy was on there and a lil while after that, Damon Wayans was on the cast. I was like 6/7 around the time. During 93-95 (aka my high school years), I was RARELY in the house on Saturday nights, so I wasn't paying attention to the shows like that. But the shows I did catch from that era were weak. Around 96, I started paying attention to it again whenever I had a chance to be home and it started getting good again.

 

[Newark88]

bump

 

[feelosofer]

The OG late 70's cast was before my time, but I have caught some of the reruns in the past. I started paying attention to SNL when Eddie Murphy was on there and a lil while after that, Damon Wayans was on the cast. I was like 6/7 around the time. During 93-95 (aka my high school years), I was RARELY in the house on Saturday nights, so I wasn't paying attention to the shows like that. But the shows I did catch from that era were weak. Around 96, I started paying attention to it again whenever I had a chance to be home and it started getting good again.

I remember the Eddie Murphy years, I thought dude was one of the funniest dudes ever. But yea, I was a little to young to really appreciate the OG cast, I saw them in later years and got to see how brilliant they were. I'm probably the most connected to the Chris Farley, David Spade years because that was an epic run, that was from like 91-96, 5 years of brilliance, especially the early years when they were kids and guys like Phil Hartman were on their way out.

 

[Newark88]

I remember the Eddie Murphy years, I thought dude was one of the funniest dudes ever. But yea, I was a little to young to really appreciate the OG cast, I saw them in later years and got to see how brilliant they were. I'm probably the most connected to the Chris Farley, David Spade years because that was an epic run, that was from like 91-96, 5 years of brilliance, especially the early years when they were kids and guys like Phil Hartman were on their way out.

Nah, 90-93 is what your referring too. 93-96 season were trash because a lot of the core cast left. Only one who stayed was Farley and I think Sandler. It didn't start getting good again til 96-97 season.