Saturday Night Live: Was It Actually FUNNY Again?

Saturday Night Live is coming dangerously close to being actually funny again — in a reliable way.

All it takes is ditching the preachy identity politics and just going for what’s funny!

Dana Carvey has contributed his fair share, bringing a spot on impression of Joe Biden that actually makes me sad Joe Biden will soon be going away.

“Come on!  I’m being serious here!”

I haven’t watched SNL in YEARS, but ever since I started watching the Trump/Biden skits on SNL around the 2024 election, the YouTube algorithm has been suggesting other clips for me to watch….

You know how that goes I’m sure.

And so I’ve clicked in to watch a few, and I have to say I discovered a new star.

Someone who is legitimately funny and wildly talented.

I haven’t usually found the women on SNL to be very funny over the years.

I know people loved Tina Fey and Amy Pohler, but I just never found them funny, I didn’t get it.

I also didn’t think Molly Shannon was very funny….smelling you armpits is funny?  I didn’t get it.

But I was blown away as I started watching a few clips to find out there has been someone one SNL with incredible talent: Kate McKinnon.

Holy crap!!

I have no doubt that she probably doesn’t align with any of my world views, I would guess she’s probably a pretty deep Liberal, but that doesn’t come out in her skits.

What does come out is just pure, raw talent and…..FUNNY!

Funny is funny, I don’t care who you are or where you come from.

You either have it or you don’t, and she has it.

These “Close Encounter” skits had my dying as I watched through each and every one:

And her impression of Ellen is eerily uncanny:

So I have to say a massive kudos to Kate McKinnon who is LEGIT funny!

I had no idea….

But now let’s get back to politics because I want to show you the Cold Open last night with “Trump and Biden”.

And I gotta say, for the most part this was just….funny!

Poking fun at both sides and just finding funny jokes, not trying to push a Far-Left ideology!

See what you think:

The low point though, was probably bringing Alec Baldwin back as RFK Jr.

Let’s just say most people online didn’t find his jokes amusing:

Well I don’t know anything about a dead dolphin in RFK Jr. car but I do know about a dead woman Alec Baldwin shot to death. https://t.co/ldRNgI0smr

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) November 17, 2024

Alec Baldwin, the actor who murdered a woman and got away with it, appeared on SNL last night, disheveled and drunk and with his fly open #Classy pic.twitter.com/5ugUMWTm42

— Jeff Adams (@JeffAdams82) November 17, 2024

Anyway, let me know what you think….

Is SNL funny again?

Or getting close to it?

Here was last week:

FUNNY? Dana Carvey Returns To “SNL” Playing a New Character