SNL went irreparably to shit when Tina Fey came aboard as head writer. It had always been a show that had had its good and bad eras, was occasionally brilliant, occasionally horrible and usually just flat mediocre. Fey injected the show with a culture and spirit of hackish, partisan meanness that snowballed and has endured to this day. Under her, SNL began to tell its audience "we hate you."
SNL went irreparably to shit when Tina Fey came aboard as head writer. It had always been a show that had had its good and bad eras, was occasionally brilliant, occasionally horrible and usually just flat mediocre. Fey injected the show with a culture and spirit of hackish, partisan meanness that snowballed and has endured to this day. Under her, SNL began to tell its audience "we hate you."