I was about 20 when SCTV and SNL came to TV in the mid 70's. Me and a couple buddies would gather at someone's apartment on Saturday evenings, fire up the bong, pop some beer and laugh ourselves silly, first SNL at 10:30 and then a syndicated SCTV episode, then go hit a bar. Always found SCTV consistently more funny as they satirized tv shows, movies and commercials. So did SNL, but a large part of their comedy was topical political satire. Unfortunately political humor doesn't age well which is why the old SCTV stuff remains much funnier than most of the SNL stuff, although parodies of old movie and TV icons like Bob Hope, Katherine Hepburn, Kirk Douglas, Orson Welles, Bing Crosby, Merv Griffin, Ricardo Montalban, Joey Heatherton and so many many more are probably over the heads of most under 40. Still love to turn it on YouTube and get a good laugh when needed. Only problem is so many of the videos are really poor quality-somebody please restore!
