Americans SNL?

I don't think it's been funny since the 90s. Maybe early 2000s.

I love Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island. But that's about it.

The Domingo skit that went viral not long ago was just awful. Not funny at all.

The recent sketches done by Nate Bargatze were amusing and clever. I do like his comedy though so may be biased.

My only issue with SNL this week is having those two lunatics Reynolds and Lively there.

They were there making light of their current situation. I mean, we all know Blakes lying out of her ass but I didn’t think they’d openly be so brazen about it.

The alien abduction sketches are so funny but much of if just leaves me a bit meh.

I was 18 and living at college in the US. I found Faulty Towers on BBC America. My roommate sat stony faced the whole way through.

It’s fine. I spent four years avoiding clapping at any old shit, my roommates 6am bible studies and syrup on my bacon.

We may be cousins but we are cut from very different cloth

I’m Canadian and love it.
Kate McKinnon and Ryan Gosling space alien sketch kills me!

Also Colin Jost and Michael Che for the weekend update is hilarious.

I like British comedy and American.

I also love Corner Gas which is very Canadian humour, and this hour has 22 minutes.

I imagine it's a bit like an American listening to Dead Ringers and wondering what the hell is going on.

Back in the day I loved it. I grew up watching re-runs of Dan Akroyd and Steve Martin, Martin Short, Bill Murray... it was where they all started.

When I was in school and uni it was mandatory viewing. They always had the best political impressions and the fake newscast was brilliant when Phil Hartman or Kevin Nealon were doing it. I know Wayne's World and Happy Gilmore spin-offs weren't as popular over here, but some of the sketches from around that time still crack me up.

Absolutely agree with the racial element - there's this one taking the piss out of Tyler Perry type film but for white people - it was hilarious but I doubt many outside the US would properly understand the references.

American here.

The humour is largely American-centric and often includes subtle nods to certain types of people/ stereotypes that exist in American culture or shared American type experiences.

One that had me rolling recently was the Ariana Grande game night sketch. They have really captured some motifs that are popular in older American cinema and culture, as well as a certain mom / personality type.

Another one had Nate Bergatze winning a competition making soul food which was hilarious due to the way it reflected certain race issues and stereotypes in America.

Not sure that either of these makes sense to an English viewer.

It might be similar to my experience watching Gavin and Stacey. It's amusing, but I am very certain I am missing some cultural context that makes British people love it so much.

The White Lotus parody, the Christmas Candle and a couple of others have had me a puddle on the floor, but that's because they were super niche and specific. As others have said, they are so hit and mostly miss .

I used to really like it but it has always been hit and miss. I like seeing big stars throw themselves into doing something really daft. Daniel Craig for example always seems up for anything. The past couple of years have been a bit rubbish though.

It's often clever-funny, rather than hysterical-laugh-out-loud funny, but I like it. A lot of the political humour probably needs US contextual understanding to appreciate properly but the Melaniade skit was brilliant (and Bronx Beat, Girlfriends Talk Show, most of the songs, etc...)

I love the SNL highlights I see and it really makes me miss proper extended sketches on British shows, and performers that get a chance to really develop themselves. Most comedy series have a high proportion of 'misses' per show imo.

I don't think it's culturally that different from modern British humour tbh, we all watch the same movies.

It still has absolute gems - the recent “Washington’s dream” sketches are up there with the best of them

also “almost pizza” and their take on Pandora bracelets are classics

Am I missing something - audience cue cards.

I don't think SNL is particularly funny anymore although they've had some great comedians over the years. I particularly like Kate McKinnon and Melissa McCarthy was brilliant as Sean Spicer.

Yes me too and I wouldn't have said I don't understand US humour.

But I don't get SNL. I guess there will always be formats/shows that elude us. I can't imagine Little Britain travelling particularly well, for all that British humour is popular around the world.

But generally, the US is a completely foreign country with very little crossover humour wise. Very little.

Wow. I love some American comedians, films and sitcoms. Frasier, Seinfeld, Schitts Creek, The Big Lebowski, Always Sunny, Anchorman...

Where are you watching it? I’d like to give it a go, the only sketch I think I’ve seen was the ‘meet your future wife’ one.

But generally, the US is a completely foreign country with very little crossover humour wise. Very little.

It's definitely a cultural thing! When I moved to the UK 15 years ago I did NOT get British humour either! I never got the grasp of the sarcasm, and found it totally unfunny.... it has changed now over time

I'm American and SNL was awesome in the 70s and 80s, but now it's just predictable and boring. I stopped watching years ago.

I'm old and I used to like SNL 40 odd years ago when you had the likes of Chevy Chase, Dan Ackroyd and Mike Myers in it but haven't watched the newer ones.

I don't either and I'd say I have quite a good sense of humour. I've only ever found 2 of clips I've seen funny. One is a mash-up take off of the Sopranos and the Carrie Diaries, showing 3 main Sopranos characters as high schoolers. That was funny and made sense if you liked the Sopranos, which I do. The other is Nic Cage doing the week in review along side Andy Samberg impersonating Nic Cage. Very on brand and a good send up. Again, helps that I'm a fan.

I've seen plenty of the "cast" be funny or act well in other roles and some of them are great impressionists, I just don't find the stuff on SNL funny, probably due to the culture gap. That said the Blues Brothers started life on SNL and I adore that film - but it took on a life of its own and they performed as musicians on SNL- no "comedy" so no cultural knowledge really needed to enjoy the musical performances.