That was I who said that, and I am old enough that Tina Fey seems like a young woman to me. She is not too old to do the job, obviously, since the guy she would be replacing is older than dirt. But she is too old to be a young, hip producer of new and subversive forms of comedy. I think that is self evident.
Lorne Michael’s long awaited retirement should be, it seems to me, an opportunity for SNL to finally stop cloning paler and weaker versions of itself, and try to recapture the energy of its original incarnation, when it was defined mostly by what it was trying not to be - not the Carol Burnett Show, not Bob Hope, not Johnny Carson. I have no idea what that would look like today, or if it is possible, but I would rather see them fail trying rather than more of the same. I won’t retract the age comment, though perhaps I should state what to me is obvious, which is that Fey would do a much better job of doing the current version of SNL than Lorne does. Sent from Gmail Mobile On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 at 12:08 PM Melissa P <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll just add that I resent someone saying that at 53, Fey is too old for > the job. > > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 2:58 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Lorne’s superpower was that nobody at NBC would mess with him. Once he’s >> out of the picture the new showrunner will have to answer to all of the >> network’s executives. It’s a wonder the show lasted as long as it did with >> him and it won’t last long without him. >> >> On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 2:08 PM Dave Sikula <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Plus, I would think Fey has too many other real projects (and common >>> sense) to want to take that nightmare on. >>> >>> —Dave Sikula >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Jan 20, 2024, at 6:50 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Meanwhile, Lorne mentioned in interviews during his CA Emmys trip that >>> he is planning on staying with the show through the 50th anniversary >>> special in January of 2025, but hinted he would retire soon after. He >>> agreed to a suggestion that Tina Fey is one of several who has what it >>> takes to replace him. >>> >>> Fey does make sense in many ways, except…she old. Michaels was around 30 >>> when he started SNL, and was in touch personally or culturally with much of >>> the cutting edge in comedy and music. Fey is 53. Of course Lorne wants >>> someone who will tend the flame and not reinvent the show. Still, I might >>> be looking for someone like some Writer/Producer who worked with like Conan >>> or TDS and is in their 30s. >>> >>> >>> https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lorne-michaels-retiring-snl-just-153758117.html >>> >>> >>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>> >>> >>> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 10:23 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Written and directed by Jason Reitman for Sony, "SNL 1975" tells the >>>> story behind-the-scenes of the weeks before the NBC late-night institution >>>> began its run--Gabriel LaBelle, who played the Spielberg stand-in in "The >>>> Fabelmans," is playing Lorne, with Cooper Hoffman ("Licorice Pizza") as >>>> Lorne's immediate NBC boss Dick Ebersol and Rachel Sennott ("The Idol," >>>> "Bottoms") as Rosie Schuster, Lorne's wife and a writer on the show--the >>>> question is, who's playing the Not Ready for Prime Time Players: >>>> >>>> >>>> https://deadline.com/2024/01/the-fablemans-gabriel-labelle-lorne-michaels-snl-1975-cooper-hoffman-rachel-sennott-1235797505/ >>>> >>>> And of course Sikula and Marousek will hate it. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2B_fQPxWz8u1iYrsdWpdEjMhfq2tLae-75tkBVxE0szyrLZbYA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2B_fQPxWz8u1iYrsdWpdEjMhfq2tLae-75tkBVxE0szyrLZbYA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLchwTEPuSAdY9Ajyqm8GXgjL5A5x0%2B-arrdXSnirZz8A%40mail.gmail.com.
