According to The New York Post Saturday Night Live is worse than it's ever been. Though they've been through this before and indeed they could have thought of a more original headline. In this great book about the show, producer Steve Higgins says that the 'it isn't as good as it used to be' thing "probably started on show two in 1975." And Tom Hanks points out the 'Saturday Night Dead' headline had been done ad nauseum by the time he was first on.
This is a feature on the sketch group Saturday Night Rewritten, who meet each Sunday and rewrite the previous night's SNL performing their show that night. The seem to be getting themselves a reputation for being even better than the real thing.
And here is SNR writer Dan McCoy's thoughts on both. And fellow SNR writer Rob Bates offers his thoughts on all three articles.
Here's Wikipedia's history of Saturday Night Live.
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