{"id":1215235,"date":"2025-02-14T13:53:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215235"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:53:38","slug":"after-50-years-ars-staffers-pick-their-favorite-saturday-night-live-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215235","title":{"rendered":"After 50 years, Ars staffers pick their favorite Saturday Night Live sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The venerable late-night sketch comedy show <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> is celebrating its 50th anniversary season this year. NBC will air a special on Sunday evening featuring current and former cast members.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long been a big fan of the show, since I was a kid in the late 1980s watching cast members such as Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, and Jan Hooks. By then, the show was more than a decade old. It had already spawned huge Hollywood stars like Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy and had gone through some near-death experiences as it struggled to find its footing.<\/p>\n<p>The show most definitely does not appeal to some people. When I asked the Ars editorial team to share their favorite sketches, a few writers told me they had never found <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> funny, hadn&#8217;t watched it in decades, or just did not get the premise of the show. Others, of course, love the show&#8217;s ability to poke fun at the cultural and political zeitgeist of the moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/features\/2025\/02\/after-50-years-ars-staffers-pick-their-favorite-saturday-night-live-sketches\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/features\/2025\/02\/after-50-years-ars-staffers-pick-their-favorite-saturday-night-live-sketches\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The venerable late-night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live is celebrating its 50th anniversary season this year. NBC will air a special on Sunday evening featuring current and former cast members. I&#8217;ve long been a big fan of the show, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}