SNL Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of Last Time It Was Funny

[Richard Cranium]

SNL Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of Last Time It Was Funny

Feb 15, 2025

NEW YORK, NY — Saturday Night Live hosted an epic celebration to mark fifty years since the show started and twenty-five years since it was last funny.

The anniversary event included an array of musical guests and cameo appearances, including cast members from decades ago who could actually make people chuckle.
"What an amazing night getting to see actual comedians back at SNL," said producer Lorne Michaels. "It's so surreal to hear people laughing again at jokes. I can't remember this happening since I fired Norm MacDonald. What a treat."

The event will kick off by celebrating fifty years of SNL with performances from comedy legends such as Steve Martin and Chevy Chase, with nods to several deceased cast members like Gilda Radner and John Belushi. The evening will then honor the twenty-five-year mark since the show was last funny by asking Pete Davidson and Sarah Sherman to say a few words. Finally, Lorne Michaels will reportedly wander around stage for an hour asking people how he still has a job.

At publishing time, SNL had announced it would honor the memory of Norm MacDonald by firing its most talented cast member.

 

[Dave6T4]

I thought it was more like 40 years since it was last funny. I tune in briefly every once in a while to try and find a funny bit, but am always disappointed.

 

[Hey-O]

 

[cr8crshr]

SNL!!! WWWWWOOOOOWWWW!!!! I haven't watched that show in ages!!! When it comes on, I am routinely sawing logs and ZZZZZZing out so maybe that is why. I don't even record it to watch at a later time. Probably just me but they lost me as a viewer a long time ago...cr8crshr/Bill

 

[XS22J8R]

I was going to say 30 years since it last was funny. I watched it from the beginning, when it was great and was the place we’d see many great comedy stars on the cast right before they hit the big time.
My interest in it faded when MAD TV started on Fox, which was when, early or mid 90s? It was much funnier and in doing cutting edge humor that SNL used to rule at. The few times I’d look at SNL since then, there was nothing worthwhile going on there anymore, and often just irritating. Just like happened with late night talk shows. I wonder how they survive, I don’t get the impression anyone watches SNL or any late night talk shows now.

 

[Don selleck]

I was thinking 45 years since it was funny

 

[YY1]

Phil Hartman (RIP) was the last truly "funny" cast member circa 1998.

 

[cosgig]

I watched some of it, but when Miley Cyrus and Bad Bunny took the stage, I lost interest really quick. I can’t see how musical acts like that can optimize the legacy of the show, it denigrated into another Grammy like disaster IMO.

 

[WileE]

With very few exceptions, it ceased being funny and entertaining after the original not-ready-for-prime-time cast left. If the pathetic version of the past few decades had been aired at the start, the show would be an easily forgettable mistake, a distant sour memory at best.