Saturday Night Live are hacks!
Time was SNL was a televised version of the National Lampoon Radio Show (the concept and cast were lifted in total).
Today, it coasts on the legacy of casts that came before it just as “late night talk shows” coast on the legacy of The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson but neither program holds a challenge to that legacy. “It’s funny because it’s supposed to be funny and you hear laughs”.
IMO it’s all wasted money, which is what politicians do best. Fact is, the people of New York and California would elect the same people no matter what! It’s their money. Problem is that like children, after they feel the effect of their actions they move to other places, rinse, and repeat!
NY is a big state, but I find it amazing that $420 million is devoted to subsidizing the motion picture and television industries.
“The arts” is one thing, specific industrialized media is another. And, $420 million isn’t chump change at the state level.
“That’s more than any other states”
Ummm...why is any state paying money to celebrities?
Here’s the problem as I see it. Who the hell watches all this TV garbage? I read viewership is down, which might mean that program ratings do not indicate vast audiences, as in the past.
We are in a time when the TELEVISION SETS get better and better by the year, while the TELEVISION programs get worse and worse by the week.
“Dumbed Down” shows attract “Dumbed Down” viewers, thus the base of the (you know who).
Why are any taxpayer dollars going to Hollywierd?
I watch very little network or major cable TV, mostly MeTV, with low budget ads and TCM with no ads. I guess it was while my husband was watching a football game that I saw some new shows advertised. I don’t know what they were, but they sure looked like blatant propaganda to me.
DEFUND
Very good article. Explains a lot. Always follow the money.
I know liberals who are big fans of SNL because of the show’s liberal bent. Turns out the reason SNL panders to libs is because they are getting paid to do so.
Why are states funding TV and movies? Trump, get on this!
I didn’t know states gave money to the intertainment industry!
Why? What is the official reason?
And let us stop doing that!
Don’t forget that former Senator Chris Dodd heads the Motion Picture Association.
Just another one of the swamps in need of draining.