(Clap clap clap... demure applause) Well done, FSK.

The exact same words and narrative apply to the track of "Star Trek" over the years.

I wish there was a "right-wing SNL" or other comedy show. It should be easy to do, but no network has the balls to air it.

I like "Gutfeld" but it's a talk show format.

I knew SNL before it was on the air!

I followed something called "The National Lampoon Radio Hour", which aired on progressive rock FM stations from fall of 1973 through mid or late 1974. I recommend looking for torrents of the show recordings, or I think it was being broadcast on Sirius XM a few years ago.

The voice actors on the Radio Hour included all of the original SNL cast: Chevy Chase, Belushi, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, plus some second city TV personalities like Harold Ramis.

They took even more chances with edgy comedy than early SNL did.

I was amazed a year later when the same names were touted on SNL on TV. Nobody in my acquaintance but me had any idea who these actors were. SNL's first seasons were basically "National Lampoon's Radio Hour" on TV.

The first several years of SNL, probably extending a bit into the second cast such as Joe Piscopo, et al had the improv comedy flavor.

SNL is stale exactly the same way as the Star Trek franchise has become stale. Like you said, a very old entertainment franchise with high name recognition whose IP owners completely avoid any risk taking, and hire clueless woke writers with no soul who have no idea what the value of the original series was.