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Chevy Chase on "Saturday Night Live"

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE,Chevy Chase, 1975

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Kathy Phillips

Kathy Phillips

August 20, 2009 - 05:35 PM GMT

No, neither of you would go to hell for making jokes about a dead person, you'd have to have a soul for that to happen.
Two pasty face crackers making jokes about a black man who suffered from vitiligo making a joke about a doctor not knowing what ethinicity box to check on the death certificate. In the words of the late Michael Jackson 'hee, hee, hee.' Both of you have something in common with MJ, he's dead and your careers are lifeless. You have the nerve to say MJ lived wreckless and you are surprised he made it to 50? Look at those washed out pasty face entertainers who have less talent and drive than MJ but have lived to see 50 and beyond and have had everything at their finger tips and have high risk behaviors but are still living.. Hell, look at Mic Jagger, Elton John and David Bowie just to name a few. I think some of them have made deals with the devil. LOL! P.S. Dennis Miller, I think that you are a jealous hearted human being.

akalanaka24

akalanaka24

April 05, 2009 - 12:32 PM GMT

Yeah, but Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert also get way more time than Weekend Update, so most likely their shows would be better. I mean, I'm not taking anything away from either Colbert or Stewart because I watch both shows and think that their great but you can't compare two half an hour shows to a five minute skit.

crutnacker

crutnacker

February 26, 2009 - 04:10 AM GMT

To quote Seth Meyers.... Really?

If you watch Jon (not John) Stewart and Stephen Colbert night after night, claiming that WU is the bright spot of SNL is faint praise indeed. Stewart and his crew can come up with the funny night after night, whereas SNL has a week and can only come up with a few stale jokes and some often horrid "commentary" by the cast. Amy P. was absolutely terrible on WU, both with Seth and with Tina Fey.

Having been a fan of the show since it started, I have to say that I give the edge to Norm here, followed by Jane and Dan. Chevy helped create it, but if you rewatch those early episodes, he steps on his jokes quite a bit and his shtick can wear thin.

Rich Hall created Sniglets before he was on SNL and was on with probably the single most talented cast ever to appear on SNL (Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, and others). And while we're at it, it is Jon Stewart, not John Stewart.