The Real Reason SNL Stopped Making Movies
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2022
- Saturday Night Live has been a cultural staple for over 40 years. Building memorable characters that audiences would want to see week after week. The characters on SNL became so popular that Lorne Michaels finally started creating feature films around them. Movies like Waynes World, The Blues Brothers, and Coneheads proved that SNL Characters could translate from small to big screen. But over the coming years the popularity started to fade, and eventually lead to the death of seeing our favorite Saturday Night Live characters on the big screen.
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Written by Chris Teregis
Edited by Dan Smiley - Развлечения
I only learned recently that Steve Martin was never actually a main SNL cast member. He just hosted it so many times, and was involved with such iconic shit, that he feels like a main part
His 1978 episode was the most rebroadcast snl episode ever since it was so good, so that also led to the confusion.
In the 70's, he did a lot on the show as if he was a cast member.
I just learned this today. Mind. Blown.
Ive always known. But I’m autistic and snl has been my special interest since season 15
A buddy and I saw “Night at the Roxbury” opening night around 8pm. We were the only two people in the theater. No complaints from me. It made it easier to enjoy the beers we smuggled in and felt free to chat. I remember laughing a lot and enjoying it. I’ve never risked spoiling that by actually rewatching it.
haha tbh i love it to this day. i’ve seen it many times, it still makes me laugh
A night a the Roxbury is hilarious , one my favorite movies
I rewatched it at the beginning of lockdowns, it holds up.
Basically the same story but it was like 2017 at my house and my buddy showed it to me. Person I think it's a Good laugh at the '90s
Saw it for the first time last week, lots of fun!
Coneheads flopped obviously since it was based on a long forgotten sketch from the 70's. By 1993 the premise seemed dated. Yet, I still love the movie and find it's premise more relevant now than when it came out in 1993.
loved it!
I didn't hate that movie. I thought Coneheads was better than most SNL movies, and pretty underrated.
"I am...an illegal...alien."
Coneheads is one of my favorite films and my dad would watch it all the time when I was a kiddo.
Cone heads is a cult classic bro
The problem was the quality of the movies. The Blues Brothers was the best (and still one of the best comedies ever) because they made an amazing film first and foremost, and stuck SNL characters in secondarily.
The rest of the films were basically just really long sketches, not good films.
Wayne's World was also awesome, but most of the rest of these movies were barely enough for a sketch. MacGruber in particular was terrible as a sketch, and I shudder to think what they'll do with it as a full TV series.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade Indeed. There's a lot of Will Forte's work that I like, but I never understood why that sketch was so popular. That, and the Californians.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade You know season 1 of MacGruber has already aired right? I was never a fan of the MacGruber sketches but I enjoy the movie, the show is alright but the schtick doesn't hold up as well over such a long run time.
Film has also changed a lot over the last few years. Comedy movies used to be considered "safe bets" for movie studios, but many studios have moved onto larger, higher budget films. Comedies themselves have sort of shuffled on over to streaming services.
But a good deal of more recent SNL cast members have found great success with television. Documentary Now!, Portlandia, Barry, The Last Man on Earth, Brooklyn 99, Parks and Rec, 30 Rock etc were all fairly well received.
Thank you for reminding me Portlandia exists 🙏
Critical reviews of comedy movies have also historically been pretty shit. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an amazing comedy movie and positive reviews from the year it came out.
It's sort-of the same with horror movies, but I tend to agree with critics that most horror movies are awful.
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Most horror movies were always awful. Look to Movie BoB's channel for a reminder.
@@ymeynot0405 Movie Bob is awful.
"Dead Eyed Dempsey"....I need more Documentary Now! ASAP!
A lot of these movies are just five minutes sketches unnecessarily stretched out for a ninety minute runtime. The only decent ones in my opinion are "Blues Brothers" and "Wayne's World."
Coneheads was hilarious and it's a cool who's who of early 90s SNL
@@weston407 I watched Blues Brothers with my dad, and I ended up being confused. The movie was more of a goofy musical than a comedy
Night at the Roxbury is one of my favorite comedy movies lol. My brother and I would watch it daily as kids
@@inyrui same!
I still enjoy night at the Roxbury
For me the existence of Lonely Island is kinda the extention of the SNL movie line. Their movies like "Hot Rod" or "Popstar. Never Stop Never Stopping" aren't based on any sketches, but were created by people who were doing sketches for SNL. The movies are very similar in style and humour to the bits they were doing under the SNL baner.
I feel the same with Happy Madison movies. Joe Dirt and The Waterboy feel like SNL characters.
I was surprised they didn't mention Tommy Boy before I realized that wasn't an SNL character
@@hiimjustin8826 Yep- Black Sheep and Tommy Boy feel very much like SNL movies, but they’re not.
I think what really changed the game was RUclips. When Samburg and the Lonely Island came along the style of sketch changed. In general the comedy landed has changed, people can get similar content any time any where on MULTIPLE platforms and staying relevant’s become that much harder. I like watching the different eras of SNL b/c they each have their own style (albeit to varying shades of being problematic sometimes) but audiences change and so does the style of humor, it’s not a bad thing but sketch characters regardless of the generation can only go so far. Billy On The Street is a character Billy Eichner came up with but even that’s broken up throughout the show. People can only watch straight zaniness for so long.
I agree, this video seems to be slightly implying that the change is a bad thing? I don't think it's bad just different
Yeah, the funniest content in the past decade has been prerecorded digital shorts. And the writing teams have already been doing their own thing for awhile using SNL as a platform/stepping stone to a larger audience. Most of the other SNL skits are too forgettable & formulaic to bother making a movie.
Well said.
There are some serious nostalgia goggles going on in the second half of this video. The old SNL characters were also shallow and one-note. It's why they worked better in 5-minute intervals than 90min ones.
agreed!
but there was a little bit of character deveelopment. more than we have now. one note but explored a bit more. like church lady finding new celebrities to interactd with.
I agree. I love SNL and have been an avid watcher for about 25 years and I've always found it good. Some seasons were better than others but I always admire the work that cast gets done.
@@Xara_K1
My mom, my sister (may God rest both of their souls), and I loved SNL from its beginning through the early 1990s. After that, however, it began to go downhill. It just wasn't funny to us anymore, and over the years, it became less and less funny, until finally, around 2012 or 2013, we simply gave up on it.
Ever since mom and sis passed away (in 2013 and 2015, respectively), I've never even tried to watch that show, because I figured it was going to get worse.
If you asked me, I think SNL has just about had it. (It's jumped the shark, as they say in show biz) They should just pull the plug on it and let it die a merciful death. Its fans (if there are any left) will probably be upset about it, but even the best programs have to come to an end sometime, so let it be with this once great show.
@@mercurywoodrose Explain to me the "little bit" of character development of Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer or the Copy Guy, because I don't see it. The humor surrounding almost all classic, recurring SNL characters is that the viewer knows that the character will say the thing, you just don't know when they'll say the thing. And then they say the thing and you get the dopamine payoff.
Hearing how much Lorne Michaels fought nbc for the sketches in the early days of SNL brightens my day...only for it to darken again when I remember he couldn’t do the same for Norm Macdonald.
Nailed it
There's only so much he could do. Norm was going to do what he wanted to do, and if what he wanted to do was deliberately antagonize the powers that be, there's only so much that Lorne could do.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade very very well said
@@jadedjimmy It's also why Norm was the GOAT. RIP.
Norm was particularly unsuited for sketch comedy. He was much funnier addressing the audience directly, as on Update. And -- not for nothing -- Norm's entire career was one long bit.
When Bohemian Rhapsody was played in Wayne's World, Mike Myers didn't like filming that scene because he complained that his head would hurt when headbanging so he needed Advil and the scene wasn't funny as they remembered.
Nuprin, little, yellow, different
Dammit you beat me by 20 mins 😂
Where's Laser Cats?
Not only that but Dana Carvey didn't know the lyrics to the song
What a p*** y lol
Coneheads brings back so many good memories. I still remember the Subway sandwich promotions from the 90s😂
I’m slightly confused by the thesis here.
You “wonder what we’re missing” by SNL’s failure to invest in recurring characters, but moments earlier you listed a string of painful and failed attempts to profit from those characters at the box office.
The logical conclusion is the only thing we’re missing is more terrible feature-length films. So maybe high quality 3-minute viral videos is actually the better outcome for both the show and audiences?
I *think* he's saying that there should be more focus on recurring characters for the sketches, without giving them their own movies.
SNL just sucks now the writing is terrible.
Good point. The movies after Wayne's World failed because the characters were never particularly well developed. Pat, Roxbury, etc were just one joke rehashed over and over again. If anything, the more recent season feature more creativity and uniqueness to their sketches rather than reusing the same bits every week.
Coneheads and Superstar are two movies I watched an ungodly amount of time with the family growing up. Coneheads is one we quote almost constantly.
Superstar was one of my favorites as a teenager. And part of why I think it holds up is because it's not just about a klutz who falls over constantly, it's a broader comedy about high school, Catholicism, romance, and being a mistfit.
MAINTAIN LOW TONESSS!!!
"I FIND YOU UNACCEPTABLE!" Is one of my FAVORITE Beldar quotes.
Great video! Love to see this kind of content, I'm running a Nerdstalgic marathon !
Little note, The Blues Brothers weren't SNL characters, they where official musical guests, the band was already playing gigs outside of SNL before the first tv appearance and the rights belong to Dan Aykroyd and Judy, Belushi's Wife
It wasn't even about whether audiences were seeing them: Lorne Michaels wanted his own production company (he'd already produced the 90s Lassie remake), but all he owned was SNL. Meanwhile, 90's NBC wanted more sitcoms like "Just Shoot Me" for breakout ex-SNL stars, so starting with "Coneheads", it became a three-way Lorne/Viacom/Paramount six-pic deal: SNL performers were told to concentrate on marketable running characters, participation in any spinoff movies would be mandatory, and they'd have to accept at least one sitcom pilot script if offered.
Night at the roxbury and superstar were great films for my young teenage self lol
The early 90s cast is what I like to call the “super cast”. You have so many comedy heavy weights and amazing writers during that time. I don’t think SNL will ever be that great again
SNL movies come in one of three categories:
Successful: The Blues Brothers, Wayne's World, (to a lesser extent) Wayne's World 2
Underrated Gems: Coneheads, McGruber
Dumpster Fires: Everything else.
I agree with everything you say, but haven’t seen McGruber.
Now I gotta see it.
Cone heads was my favorite 🤩
@@corbindioxide6253 macgruber is actually one of my favorite movies and always laugh just as hard every rewatch
@@egodrunk Yep. It’s a done deal. It’s my pick for movie night this Friday 😏
@@corbindioxide6253 It's one of the most god-awful things ever committed to film. It's not even in the so bad it's good category. The people involved with its production should have been run out of the industry on a rail. I have no idea why they're now making a TV series when neither the movie nor the sketches were any good.
It's a real shame Night at the Roxbury failed. It's such a great flick and remains one of my mutually loved favorites with my sister. Both she and I went to see it in the theater together back then.
Also... I really didn't think Blues Brothers 2000 was that bad. That opening scene kills my heart.
Emilioooooo! (I like night at the Roxbury it’s hilarious)
@@KatieLHall-fy1hw haha We still quote that scene all the time. Along with, "Idiots! Morons! Useless!"
"Did you grab my ass??"
"Sir, from where I'm standing that is a physical impossibility"
"I know your tricks, Dewey..."
In highschool we all had the dance down and would frequently quote the movie 😂
Chris Farley and David Spade were totally hilarious and Tommy boy and black sheep. I wish they would have done more comedy movies with Chris Farley and David Spade together they were comedy gold.
That’s really something out of anyone’s control though, considering Farley’s death. It actually makes me pity Kevin James; you can tell with every single Happy Madison movie he does that he is just being used by Adam Sandler as a stand-in for Farley.
@@Gemnist98 Huh. Never saw it that way but you’re totally right. James is funny and could pull his own weight- see King of Queens, Here comes the Boom, and his YT channel. He’s capable of his own style separate from Farley, but Sandler has often used him as a loud, big guy like Chris. That said, it looks like Sandler’s finding a new direction after the 2010’s- which were probably his worst decade. He’s realized that he can actually ACT and did Uncut gems, and now Hustle- which weren’t really comedies, just good uses of his talent.
There is a difference between a character that can carry a sketch and one that can carry a film. Figuring out what makes one film work and another not, is rarely rocket surgery. Writing is the key ingredient. One of the huge differences between the original Blues Brothers and the sequel is the writing. Yeah, John Belushi not being there didn't help, but even had he been, it would not have been a great film.
Damn, this is most positivity for modern SNL I’ve ever seen in a RUclips comment section that wasn’t on SNL’s channel itself.
Mad TV deserves more love than SNL does.
I loved Mad Tv as a kid but the writing was complete trash compared to SNL
I saw MacGruber in a theater at Naval Station Norfolk when I had just gotten back from a three month underway. I was the only person in the theater at the time and it was hilarious. I had a blast watching it. I didn't know it was related to SNL (which I don't care for) and I normally would watch a movie without seeing the trailers beforehand.
Movies at base? So cool! What did you ride, if I may ask?
Nothing like base theaters. I remember San Diego’s when I was an E-3, a ticket cost about nothing. I still go to Oceana’s very once and while.
Observing that SNL isn't funny anymore is one of America's favorite pastimes. I've been doing it since 1980. Though, that stretch from '88 to '92 was pretty damn good -- better even than the 70's seasons. Haven't watched it much in 20 years.
It's still fine, people just don't know how to disassociate something they liked from their child hood to something from today.
I got tired of my American cousins and aunts and uncles telling me that SNL wasn't funny anymore coz I have always just loved it bcoz I liked when they took chances and I love the current cast over the last 5 or 6 years, so I picked 2 episodes from each season for us to watch over the course of a little over a year and we came to the conclusion that SNL has always been hit or miss, with some seasons just more hit or miss than others.
@@Xara_K1 Someone else did a whole RUclips video about watching at least one episode from every season of SNL and came to the conclusion that SNL is very much like baseball. Most of the skits strike out (or ground out or pop up out), there are a few singles and doubles which are amusing at the time but not particularly memorable, some are home runs which are good one-and-done sketches that may be remembered during a particular season but may age badly over time, and you get a few which become iconic gems (Rosanne Rosannadanna, the Samurai man, the Blues Brothers, Eddie Murphy characters Buckwheat, Velvet Jones, Gumby, and Mr. Robinson, the Church Lady, Wayne's World, the Chris Farley Chippendale skit and Man Living in a Van Down By the River motivational speaker, the cheerleader skit, the More Cowbell skit, Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impersonation, Kristen Wiig's woman with the tiny hands skits, the Lonely Island musical skits, Stefon on Weekend Update). He also said that certain seasons are up and down as well, with some years being well remembered for their strong casts, but also a couple of really disastrous seasons (1980-81 and 1985-86).
Holy crap. I had never even heard of "It's Pat" until this video.
OK, but why did they stop making comedy?
Growing up with SNL movies coming out consistently was great, even several of the flops are movies I'm grateful for, Ladies Man, Night at the Roxbury, Wayne's World 2, Coneheads all got a special place in my heart.
This is an excellently researched and put together exploration. But, there is one hole that I think is worth discussing because it gets a bit lost in the narrative.
Many of those SNL movies were “financial” failures, but they were absolutely not “cultural” flops. Breezing past the failure of Stuart saves his family and Pat is fine. But, the financial failures of the late 90s flicks like Superstar and Night at the Roxbury were totally different. These movies were popular with teenagers and did well on TV. In fact, many millennials (some are in these comments) are happy to tell you their friends rode around doing the Roxbury head nod or the girls in high school used to yell “SUPERSTAR” randomly in awkward moments. Everyone had a Ladies Man impression. These were very popular characters that struck a cultural nerve. They just didn’t put asses in the seats in theaters. Still, many of them are still some of your friends and families favorite movies.
I just think it’s important when telling the story of SNL movies to acknowledge that many of them have cult-like followings, despite not translating that into box office success. McGruber was the most recent but certainly not the only.
You call it "developing characters", i call it "stretching every comedy premise way too much"
Dude your insight is very much appreciated
Peacock is now making a Please do not Destroy a movie starring SNL writers and Conan O'brien.
A Night at the Roxbury and Coneheads are *classics.*
WHAT IS LOVE??
the blues brothers is easily one of my all time favorite comedies, my family also enjoyed the coneheads when i was young.
Coneheads is a very underrated movie. I watched it recently and it’s enjoyable even if you never saw the SNL sketches
Wayne's World was the first movie I bought with my own money on VHS.
It was the first movie I paid for my family to see (I was a 13 year old paper boy. ...DONT STEAL MY NEW MOVIE IDEA!!)
My mom didn't understand it but, she was my ride and got to get out of the house for a little while. 😂
Last time i was this early I ended up with a child .
This legitimately made me laugh
SNL could use you
Superstar with Molly Shannon was my fav as a pre teen lol it’s goofy but the pepper mill is still a solid dance move to keep in rotation✌️
The "real reason" SNL stopped making movies isn't because SNL was chasing viral videos. SNL stopped making movies because they flopped over and over. As for the bits getting shorter, they're just creating content for the modern era of consumption.
I've seen virtually every episode of SNL and every single movie. I'm a super fan. The show is comedy and culture evolving.
Yep, out of that list, there were two legitimately good movies worth watching unironically. Several more that are OK, but not great, and then there's a few that should have been buried in that landfill next to all those ET games.
Even back in the day, it was always a stretch to take content from SNL and pad it out to a feature length film.
A lot of the old ones really didn't know when to end and would have been better off a minute or two shorter.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the scrapped Dieter movie.
HBO show “Succession” needs a video from you!!! Please!!
i think you are correct. case in point: game show parodies. premise based. not character based, exept for wiigs broadway star. very one note. premise is similar to situation, thus they are moving more towards the sitcom model of ridiculous premise, rather than comedic characters that can respond to somewhat ordinary situations in a fun ny way, or whose choices lead to silly situations, rather than them being dropped into silliness.
MacGruber is one of the best comedy films ever made, the show is pretty good too. If you haven't seen MacGruber go watch it right now.
Dude thank you. I constantly try to get my buddies to watch this movie, and they just dismiss it as some stupid SNL movie and won't watch it. It is hands down one of the funniest movies ever made.
It's ok at best lmao
It really isn’t tho lol
It's one of the worst movies ever made.
@@ikmor Yep, I hated the characters, I hated the premise and few if any of the jokes were actually funny. I get that just about anything can develop a cult following, but this was easily the worst film that SNL ever did. IIRC, it was also one of the most recent, if not last.
I don’t know about “failed”, but Wayne’s World 2, A Night at the Roxbury and Superstar all were profitable.
Idk about the numbers but I think the budget they release doesn’t include marketing so you really have to at least 1.5x your budget to break even
Coneheads 💗 Just watched this week again 😎
ARE WE GOING TO FORGET ABOUT THE LONELY ISLAND???? Popstar Never Stop Never Stopping was hysterical! I think it was a flop in the box office too, but man that movie is funny.
Yeah nobody heard of it even if it was free on crackle.
I loved It’s Pat. it came with a VHS/ TV combo my parents got for our minivan for a road trip and we watched it over and over. My parents hate It’s Pat 😂
_"Oww! My nuts! ...That was my lunch."_
😂
I refferenced It's Pat in a paper on Judith Butler once. I was talking about the Zero Moment of Gender, the time between meeting someone and figuring out their gender. And how the entire premise of the sketch is that people are stuck in that moment that's normally a split second and it drives them nuts.
The MacGruber movie is probably my all time favorite comedy movie. It's either that, or The Jerk with Steve Martin.
Yes. One of the funniest movies ever made
Right on. The Jerk is definitely the best. I still always sing the thermos song.
I"m sorry, but that was a terrible film written to titilate 10 year olds. On no level does that movie work, and it's not even entertaining the way that Plan 9 from Outerspace was. It's just bad.
Lorne Michaels: It's not about keeping the bees, it's about sending a message
Oh no, it's Mr Bill!
I lived for that.
Had a Mr Bill tshirt for years till it fell apart around the plastisol.
One thing you didnt take into consideration is the fact that comedy movies dont do very well nowdays so theres no reason to chase that market anymore. Also the fact that they along with other sketch comedy shows have to compete with sketches on youtube, instagram and tiktok so they have to chase that viral hit with every sketch to draw people in.
The Ladies Man was one of my favorites as a kid
I had no idea Night at the Roxbury failed. I remember people watching it and loving it even back then. I've never looked up the Box office numbers though
It's hard to turn a 5-6 minute sketch into a 90 minute film so what they should've done was make a movie centered around 2-4 normal characters who get into some out of the ordinary situation maintained by encountering various SNL characters throughout the film to help move the story along to the resolution of the main arc.
Wayne's World and the Blues Brothers worked mainly because they just took the characters from the sketches and mostly only brought along other bits that actually made sense to incorporate. Most of the rest of the movies barely had enough to justify a sketch.
25 years ago my dad was complaining, going on about how "Saturday night just isn't as funny as it used to be". Personally? I don't watch it. I mean, I watched a bit the summer of 92' and 93' because school and virginity. But! Besides that, I don't watch it. I don't know anyone who does. Implying that maybe I know enough people to make that expressed sentiment a viable metric... that would be incorrect. So. I don't watch Saturday night live AND don't know a lot of people who also don't watch Saturday night live.
Glad we sorted that one out. Thank you for your time.
I always felt like an Irwin Mainway movie would be amazing, I think it's a big missed opportunity. I also think that a Stefon movie would've worked if written by a trusted screenwriter.
They could make short films about Ms. Rafferty. I'd watch that lol
Even if he’s the most beloved Weekend Update character, I really don’t think a Stefon movie could work. He’s just a gay guy that recommends stuff around NYC. What story can you can make from that? Him pursuing Seth Meyers?
@@Gemnist98 See, I don't agree. Of course it would not be about his love with Seth or him recommending clubs. I just feel like he's an interesting character (rather than a one note gay stereotype) and they can write a good story around this character that is not conventional and is a weirdo and is an outcast. Like, I've seen comedy movies written around a larger than life, cartoonish character and it sometimes works perfectly.
@@stacysgrapesoda800 So, basically Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, where Tim Burton took a character Paul Reubens did for burlesque shows, built an entire world and plopped the character into it in the hopes that something would come of it. As that example shows, that definitely can work, but it takes some serious talent to pull it off. Honestly, our familiarity with Stefon might be a detriment to attempting it. It would be very hard to give him a narrative while still keeping the same feel audiences would want.
Man, I miss Mad TV
MAD
The Blues Brothers is one of the greatest movies ever made. I just don't think another SNL movie could top that. However, Wanes Worls was hilarious and I definitely wouldn't say no to a What's Up With That movie. Now that they're done doing that sketch, it would be interesting to see what happens to those characters when the show's over. Linday Buckingham yells at Diondre until the dancing tracksuit guy gets him to back down then they all get in discount KennyG's windowless van and try to score coke in the shady part of town.
Let Keenan do a full “What’s Up With That?” movie. That’s what we need.
Here on YT the channel Characters Wanted has some great videos specifically of character sketches. They're single actor sketches so not the same feel as SNL, but sometimes they explore some great character concepts. If you miss the old "wacky characters" style SNL, maybe see if you like any of those.
I had no idea coneheads flopped. I swore that shit was as big as Look Who's Talking. My 5th grade friends all knew it...
Well. They recently did Last Duel featuring Adam Driver, who did a recent SNL knight skit very similar to the movie script. I think that should could as an SNL skit turned movie myself.
Coneheads is a CLASSIC!!!
My favorite skit used to the the Californias lol
2:19 so that's where the inspiration for Bumblebee Man from the Simpsons came from
The fault lies not in our SNLs, Nerdstalgic, but in our selves
Nah, the bits arent as funny anymore. Like he said in the video, they're trying to compete with youtube so they make short bite-sized bits
_"The REAL treasure was the SNLs we made along the way... or, something like that."_
I didn’t even know they did this aside from blue brothers and Wayne’s world
Apart from Coneheads and Lady's Man which were pretty decent, the rest of them were more or less garbage not worth watching.
You realize you said "after It's Pat failed in 1994, Lorne made Coneheads in 1992," right?
I had no idea about the Robert Downey Jr / suitcase/spiderman sketch. And to think of him playing iron Man and giving a suitcase to Spider-Man in "homecoming", that's pretty dope
there would never have been the Blues Brothers without Curtis Salgado
Good vid
The first film I ever walked out on was Stewart Saves his Family. I made it about 15 minutes and then demanded a refund on 6he ticket, popcorn and soda. The manager gave me two future comp tickets and that was acceptable to me.
A night at the Roxbury and Superstar are so good to me and some of the movies i adored growing up before even realizing they were SNL spin-offs.
I didn't realize two of my favorite childhood movies were based on SNL sketch characters. I also didn't realize Coneheads wasn't a hit, maybe it became a cult classic? Anyway, I really want to rewatch Blues Brothers now.
I loved Coneheads when it came out and still do.
Loved their State Farm ads, too. 😂
I never realized it wasn't as popular as I thought, either.
Coneheads is a classic movie regardless of its box office numbers.
Wow 3-4 minutes long? They feel like an eternity.
Coneheads, Wayne's World, and A Night at the Roxbury we're my favorite movies
This video made me realize that we need the David Pumpkin 🎃 Movie! It would be awesome, it can be its own thing.
9 min so perfect and entertaining
What is the background song called?
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said, "In the last decade," but it's not for the reason you suggest (lack of strong characters). The times they are changing, and the show has tried to adapt to social media, which changed the media landscape and effected how society consumed media over the last decade. Characters aren't catching on because the audience moves on - they simply have too many options today. During SNL's heyday, the audience would watch their favorite shows on a television - millions would tune in and talk about those characters the next day, and that simply doesn't happen anymore. SNL will likely die when Lorne retires at the 50th - it had a long run, but unfortunately, it's a victim of streaming and other social media outlets that compete for space in the 15-35 demographic.
Always been a big fan of the Wayne’s World movies and Blues Brothers. Never even seen SNL. Don’t know if I could here in Aus
I consider the Tina fey Amy poeler movies snl movies. Lonely island movie is also an snl movie since it’s produce by Lorne Michaels. Portlandia is an snl show, bridesmaids is an snl show too imo
Okay but Lonely Island movies are incredible. I
i think snl recently has been making reccuring sketches that arent relient to the character anymore, but the settings, and i think its way better than a character doing the same unfunny thing constantly, like that stupid baby yoda that they still do for some reason. Stuff like PDD or the Dionne Warwick thingy has way more unique and funny jokes. helps that they arent 50 minutes long like back in the day
2:38 was a real missed opportunity to play the clip of Nicolas Cage going “NOT THE BEES!”
When I was a kid I was a huge SNL fan, I mean like 10. I remember think thinking when I saw Lorne Michaels as producer on a film, that was prestige to me lol
SNL, Fridays, MadTV, Cracked, and regional comedy began to mock pomposity on a shoe-string budget with young directors, writers, and talent. Then SNL survived, got access to big-budget and guests, and became conservative in protecting its existence and influence. Today, more care is given to the expensive sets than the writing. Lorne Michaels is an old dinosaur now disinterested in shocking authority. Pablum.
Biggest difference is a film only needed to make like 40 million in the 90s to be successful. With budgets ballooning over the decades it needs 200 million now of days. You can get 40 million dollars worth of people to check out a snl movie. It’s a bigger ask
its just a sign of the times, back in the late 70's through out to the mid 2000's making a big movie was the end game, now times have changed now everyone wants to go viral, so really SNL never changed its goals, which was "reach the big end game of that era" back then it was movies, now its internet fame.
I know it’s been a while but I would watch a David S Pumpkins movie
One of my favorite movies ever is blues brothers but I never knew they were snl characters till now
Just goes to show how good the movie is
I feel like one thing missing from this is the SNL DOES do recurring characters still...they're just politicians. At some point, there was a realization/decision that doing impressions of Palin/Trump/Obama/Biden/Spicer/etc. was the way to stay relevant, and they've basically never looked back. Where there once were tons of recurring ORIGINAL characters, now there are recurring politicians and pundits (I mean, one of the featured players is there mostly to do Trump impressions now and Trump isn't even president anymore). Everything said here is true, but I think this is an important factor as well.
What Up With That with Keenan is the biggest reoccurring sketch I can think of from more recent’ish SNL history. I hope Angelo really catches on, there have been three already (at least two).
I went and saw Blues Brothers 2k probably 12 times in the dollar theater when I was a kid. It was the first movie I could see by myself 🤔🐢🐢
Surprised you didn't bring up the decade-long gap between The Ladies Man and MacGruber, when SNL's film agreement with Paramount (who distributed most of the films) was scrapped after NBC merged with Universal (coincidentally, the same studio behind the two BB films).
That might have also affected things, since now any potential film adaptation based on sketches would have to first possibly go through them.
why did they not do a film with bill hader. using his character stefon. would have been hilarious. showed us some of the little people bill keeps talking about.
How would a character like that work in a movie? Actually, how would a character like that work in a proper sketch, rather than a Weekend Update segment?
@@VicenteTorresAliasVits That character was questionable when new, these days we should all know better.
Seth Meyers actually said recently that there were some plans to make a Stefon movie. Idk if that would work, but it would maybe be interesting to see wha made him like…that. I’m also a Bill Hader stan so I’m pretty biased, haha.
I could see something similar to Borat working with Stefan; or alternatively, flesh out his character with a story about self-fulfillment and how he keeps slipping into a cycle of trying to fill the void in his life with club-hopping and drug-fueled antics, following his journey to try to get his life together. I could see either of those approaches working decently enough, tbh.
"Coneheads" came out in the Summer of 1993 in the U.S.
A lot of the more modern recurring sketches were things there was no way they could have gotten the rights to do movies about. They couldn't just go out and make a "Jeopardy!" movie that makes fun of Burt Reynolds and Sean Connery.