More Cowbell!

I kinda farted around today. I cleaned in a half-assed way. Cooked dinner in the same half-assed way. I was too busy watching 101 Most Unforgettable SNL Moments on E! I used to be a huge fan of SNL. Grew up on it. I haven't watched it much in the past couple of years. But then, I don't watch much tv anymore. I have my shows and that's all I watch. But I have so many fond memories of the old SNL. Eddie Murphy, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Steve Martin, John Belushi... I adored and worshipped them. Comedy was something everyone in my family admired. I didn't realize just how risque a lot of that humor was at the time. I turned to my mom and said "You let me watch some raunchy stuff there, you know? Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, Cheech and Chong.." and she said "They were raunchy, but they were damned funny!" And now she wonders about my sense of humor.

Anyway, back to SNL. I found out a nifty little tid bit of info while watching 101 Most Unforgettable SNL Moments. It debuted exactly one day before I was born. Pretty damn cool, huh? I thought so. They didn't get all of my favorite skits in on that list, but they got a good amount of them. I was busy laughing most of the day. They were pretty damn cutting edge back in the day. They couldn't get away with half of the stuff they did in this day and age. Let's take some of Eddie Murphy's characters for examples. Buckwheat. One of my favorite of his characters. Hilariously funny. There's no way he would be allowed to do that today. Very un-PC. Also, his White Like Me skit. This is where Eddie gets made-up as a white man and goes around town. He's suddenly given all kinds of perks because he's "white". Very funny. No way you'd see that on today's SNL either. Have we gotten too carried away with PC? Or are we more about the pretty than the personality? I don't know. But I do miss my old SNL. The new one isn't funny and hasn't been for a long time.

Look at me, I'm getting all nostalgic and old ladyish. "Back in my day.."