I've been watching Season 1 and 2 of SNL this week and they wouldn't

[chelsea0011]

get away with a lot of the stuff they did back then. Chevy getting up from his weekend update desk to put his hand over the naked breast of a woman in a political scandal, Belushi, in Samurai General Practitioner, putting a naked woman's picture up on the light screen and simulating masturbation with the skelton's hand next to him, Kissenger walking by some soldiers with rifles and Chevy, in another Weekend Update, saying he was being lead to his execution, and on and on and on. These shows are over 30 years old and televison has gone backwards in what can be said and shown. Am I wrong?

[Texifornia]

1. I don't think so...

Belushi, Ackroyd and the rest were constantly getting stuff past the censors. They cracked down later, or just wised up.

[hendo]

2. Ah, SNL back when it was good

political correctness put an end to shows like that. In order to stay around, SNL had to adjust.

[chelsea0011]

3. And speaking PC, they did a skit where a large crowd of people

were auditioning for a part in a movie. They were asked to perform as a group during say, an earthquake. At the end Buck Henry asks if they can do a mob lynching. They all scream yes and grab Morris and put a noose around his neck and try to string him up. That would never fly today. The show would have been cancelled on the spot. I found the skit more interesting than funny, what with all the noose stuff that had been going on recently. What's interesting are all the skits that had been eliminated for the reruns they have been showing in the past. It is really most of the shows.

[mike_c]

4. I STILL chuckle whenever I think about some of those early SNLs....

Remember too that it was off the charts even then-- I mean, we looked forward to SNL all week long just to see what kind of outrageous stuff they would pull.