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Saturday Night Live
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Tim’s take
His standing line is that the show stopped being funny somewhere around 2009, and he treats specific sketches as evidence rather than assertion — the Asian hate crime sketch and the Joe Rogan ivermectin bit both get picked apart as lazy, confused, low-hanging fruit 4:28 10:15 1:06. He extends that into a talent argument, comparing the current cast unfavorably to the Eddie Murphy era and suggesting diversity hires get pushed ahead of readiness 22:40. He also questions why the show still draws campout-level fandom when he doesn't see the current cast delivering 0:57.
Despite the weekly attacks, he insists he doesn't dislike the show and calls it probably the most important comedy platform in American history for launching people into film 8:37. That affection mostly comes out as fantasy pitches rather than praise — imagining himself hired for a George Floyd cook-off sketch, or picturing Colin Jost sitting across from an actual Guantanamo detainee 7:04 1:11:37.
Every Reference (40)
"work Sunday night on HBO There's a few shows, you know Saturday Night Live because it's live, you know, and it's you know But I think"
The Death of Cable TV and the Rise of YouTube Personalities — You Can't Have Everything+83s into the segment"I just want to say I think it's wrong yeah I'm here at Saturday Night Live you know the purveyors of truth and this is why those those"
"gonna destroy America. But he's saved Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central's gonna show about him, Colbert's developing"
Hollywood, Trump as Media Mogul, and Harvey Weinstein's Open Secret — It Ends Bad (with Yannis Pappas)+90s into the segment"And the thing with Kanye West on SNL, we'll kind of end talking about that. He's saying some things that"
Kanye West's SNL Meltdown and Celebrity Influence — Time To Retire"You have a very mainstream safe You know mainstream D D, you know SNL and all these things so you're kind of like what the hell's the"
"I mean, I think this is true of Saturday Night Live too. There's a lot and there's not a lot of exciting interesting comedy going on on these shows."
"you don't find any blue collar people in a writers room at SNL, you don't find anybody who worked a union blue collar job that came from Ohio"
"network and go, I mean, listen, I'm not trying to be dick. SNL's bad. SNL's not funny anymore. Like, and I tried to give it the benefit of"
SNL Is Corporate Garbage That Steals Jokes, and Colin Jost's AIDS Bit — Mike Recine+50s into the segment"are the bitches? But again, you would never see that now on an SNL, and that saddens me because I think that would be fucking hilarious."
"I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that like, why does SNL suck? Because nobody in the SNL writers room, very few of them,"
"go to Harvard they write for the tonight show or they write for SNL Yeah, I don't know that is tough Yeah, I'm talking about how you"
"comedy you're gonna have to go and find it it's not gonna be on SNL it's not gonna happen it's not gonna be even though you know alternate"
"satire about things that are actually happening okay I didn't watch SNL I don't know if that's not even tried to do Epstein I don't know"
"really funny but Nelson ELLs garbage just not good and I defended SNL I defended it to open mic"
Forgiving OJ Simpson and Michael Che's Bruce Jenner Joke — #172 - Long Island Wedding | The Tim Dillon Show+121s into the segment"never hopped a couldn't even do it but but they blame all it but SNL does here's where those human you know like human garbage people"
SNL and Peter Luger's: Past Their Prime But Untouchable — #172 - Long Island Wedding | The Tim Dillon Show+29s into the segment"with all due respect everyone works there because there's there's one or two people on there that are funny I always look at the show like that and I go how does it have fans that are like the the fervor of the fandom"
The SNL Sleep-Out Line and OJ Simpson as Life Coach — #173 - Shane Gillis | The Tim Dillon Show+68s into the segment"right if it gets your heads right cuz it's a live show they put it on Saturday night it's live yeah so if you can't handle pressure"
The SNL Audition Process and Landing the Job — #173 - Shane Gillis | The Tim Dillon Show+154s into the segment"the phone my friend drew Michael Andrew Michael was working at SNL at the time as a writer and he was telling me that like kate mckinnon"
Election Night at Helium and Overestimating Comics' Importance — #173 - Shane Gillis | The Tim Dillon Show+126s into the segment"of chunky too and they're also very fun interesting listen was SNL gonna gonna get mad at me are you not gonna give me a jobs I noticed"
Ben's Fiancee Lurleen and the Efficient Asian Workforce Threat — #177 - Sober December | The Tim Dillon Show+64s into the segment"care you laugh it off i love what you said about snl i think you tweeted your show hasn't been funny since 2009 which is true yeah why"
Chris Rock's "Bigger and Blacker" and Lost Comedy — #228 - Candace Owens | The Tim Dillon Show+30s into the segment"of those journalists and put them in the writers room at saturday night live and they'd fit in yeah it would be like fine like they could"
Fake Journalists: Taylor Lorenz, Michael Tracey, and the SNL Writers Room — #239 - Anna Khachiyan | The Tim Dillon Show+171s into the segment"then she tweeted this she tweeted remember when someone had their snl offer revoked after and this is by the way this is in response to"
Ellery Smith, Robot Chicken, and the Cancel Culture Cycle — #245 - It's Saturday Night! | The Tim Dillon Show+66s into the segment"going on there um well he does the anti-asian hate crime thing on snl and everybody on twitter is like this is the biggest thing there's"
Bo Burnham... Bowen Yang's SNL Anti-Asian Hate Sketch — #245 - It's Saturday Night! | The Tim Dillon Show+188s into the segment"that's not a shock to anyone on that show if they say you know tim dillon's not a fan of the takes they'd go yeah that's the point we write [ __ ] that we know a guy like tim dillon would hate you know"
Breaking Down the SNL Asian Hate Crime Sketch Line by Line — #245 - It's Saturday Night! | The Tim Dillon Show+61s into the segment"but this idea that like snl is supposed to be the great sketch comics in america or the the next generation of comedy all-star i i"
SNL's Talent Problem and Imperialism Jokes — #245 - It's Saturday Night! | The Tim Dillon Show+91s into the segment"there's just something i want to say i want to see somebody that was on guantanamo bay going to snl and do a funny bit and have conjurers"
Closing Fantasy: Booking a Guantanamo Guest and the Pronoun Bit — #245 - It's Saturday Night! | The Tim Dillon Show+85s into the segment"wrong there i think lorne michael should nuke snl at the end like when he's right about to go out and just do one real good one have louis"
Canceling Daddy-Daughter Dances and Miserable Gay Culture — #247 - Scream At The Sky (ft. Yannis Pappas) | The Tim Dillon Show+95s into the segment"week on saturday night which is up as our show is opposite saturday night live that's why we're a little you know this is the saturday"
Elon Musk Hosting SNL and the Doge Father Sketch — #250 - The New Shepard | The Tim Dillon Show+49s into the segment"um what do you think about elon hosting snl how bad will it be or will it be great um i don't think it'll be great yeah because like"
Elon Musk Hosting SNL Fantasy — #251 - Dirty Little Animals (ft. Ray Kump) | The Tim Dillon Show"you on the temple mount um i don't cast snl you know they probably had some blind spots they certainly did but you know we've taken it"
Book of Mormon, Cancel Culture, and Diversity in Art — #257 - Bomb Energy | The Tim Dillon Show+313s into the segment"you know i would the first time i watched uh i remember watching snl yes and it was uh recently yeah no no no no no like this was and"
Being the First Friend Who Truly Loved Comedy — #261 - Please, Die Alone | The Tim Dillon Show+183s into the segment"hey i'm excited so we're doing that uh next week over at saturday night live and of course the sketch is to make fun of the the way that"
Hired at SNL for a George Floyd Cook-Off Sketch — #274 - Tourettes Gang | The Tim Dillon Show+42s into the segment"when you win just like the snl audience they don't really want comedy they want to hear stuff and they want to go yeah like they want"
The Wendy Williams Audience Wants a Pep Rally, Not Comedy — #275 - Cool Mom! | The Tim Dillon Show+18s into the segment"quesadilla is one of the best in the industry uh and I tweeted about the sketch that SNL did uh where P Davidson played Joe Rogan and somebody"
The Michael Che Feud Over the SNL Joe Rogan Sketch — #277 - The New American Dream | The Tim Dillon Show+70s into the segment"when they do the Big Show every Saturday night and they all come together and they make some noise and usually the noise is people going God this is bad"
Defending SNL While Roasting Michael Che's Tweet — #277 - The New American Dream | The Tim Dillon Show+58s into the segment"most people and that's why people don't leave institutions like snl is a cozy [ __ ] job sure right but like you don't really know if"
Netflix Wanted the N-Word Joke, Not the Trans Joke — Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #307+186s into the segment"does that say saturday night live with 65 people in it is this an ensemble cast oh he is a"
Living Like a King: Seafood Towers and Michael Jackson's Last Meal — White Marble with Paul Virzi | The Tim Dillon Show #314"SNL that's right that's when I would really like if there was a time that would have been the time for me to blow up it would have been"
Meeting a 17-Year-Old Adam Sandler and MTV Fame — Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343+15s into the segment"those kids I think they're funny I I think I it just sucks that SNL is like determining where they go after this because they put a"
Please Don't Destroy, Movie Flops, and Watching War Instead of Films — Trevor Wallace & The Nickelodeon Scandal | The Tim Dillon Show #385+20s into the segment"coming out and I mean I I just signed with WME. I'm I'm going on SNL uh and I'm going on Rogan and I have a Skims collab coming out next"
Erica Kirk's Musical Number and Interview — They Got Greta, A.I. Hollywood, & The Battle For Tik Tok | The Tim Dillon Show #464+89s into the segment