I recently found a whole group on Facebook inhabited by people dedicated solely to the cause of asking God to "fix" Saturday Night Live, to make Saturday Night Live funny again. I am quite serious.

So far there are 39 human beings who are, in my opinion, completely batshit crazy; not only to sincerely believe that a God would be so hard-up for something to do that asking said God to "fix" a television show seems reasonable, but to think that said show needs to be fixed at all (whether by a celestial being or a mortal, or a company or corporation). 

The current cast is I think the best SNL has had since I have been alive (so for the past twenty years); although of course during the Hartman - Farley - Rock - Sandler- Spade - Myers years the show was going top notch, I do think this cast might have one-uped them. 

Kristen Wiig has to be one of the most talented, wicked insanely hilarious women the show has had. Ever. 

Gilda Radner, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Jane Curtin, Maya Rudolph. 

These women = comedy gold.

Casey Wilson has, this past season, seemed to be coming into her own on the show.

As for the bad boys of SNL, this cast has some definite comedic bad-asses,

Bill Hader is the first that comes to mind... Seth Meyers, Will Forte, Jason Sudeikis, Andy Samberg, Fred Armisen...

Not going into any of their stellar political parodies, a highlight of this past season was The Dateline Sketch. Of course not only because of Bill Hader's dead-on impression of Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison, but because, let's face it, everyone secretly thinks that that guy takes a little too much joy in his work, and someone was man enough to put it out there.  

I was so happy someone had picked up on how much pleasure Keith Morrison seems to get out of these horrible things, he's like saying the worst possible stuff & yet he is taking full delight in it. When I saw that sketch I was beside myself, I could not take my eyes off of the television, off of Bill Hader's naturally strange face filled with this unnaturally sick pleasure.

The geek in me did a dance.

Also the "Memories" sketches wherein a group of four guys (Sudeikis, Hader, Forte, and the guest host; these particular sketches are only done when there is a male guest host) are hanging out and listening to music and, in between verses of the old song they're listening to, each guy takes a turn reminiscing about an event in their lives that that particular song has reminded them of and then they all join in to sing the song's chorus. The memories are, to put it lightly, strange and unusual, and the sketches close with dramatic absurdity - the most recent had Sudeikis accidentally shoot Hader in the head with a gun, killing him. 

The humor on SNL is getting darker; 

A commercial parody for Jar Glove: The product that offers a more viable solution to opening a jar that doesn't involve accidental homicide. 

The SNL Digital Short 'Dear Sister', a Tarantino worthy show of bullets and fake blood, all set to the infinitely creepy tune "Hide & Seek" by Imogen Heap.

The outcome of a murderous Chocolate Bar running rampant- people are literally suffering Death By Chocolate. 

 ... and that has been it's saving grace.  

It seems it's just a fashionable thing to diss SNL no matter what you really think of the current Not Quite Ready For Prime Time Players, and then when the cast changes again go and say: "Oh, it was so much better when so & so was on (the cast they were saying sucked before), but now, now the show sucks because of these new people: The current cast." 

I don't know, that has just been my experience with many, many, many people.

It's just an observation.

I, however, am in love with the current line-up of Not Quite Ready For Prime Time Players. Everything seems to be clicking together in the best way, the writing is spotless more often than not, the chemistry between these guys is remarkable, they play off of each other brilliantly. 

So, that God being asked to "fix" SNL can ignore the batshit crazy prayers guilt-free.

Right now, at the turn of the century, Saturday Night Live is Bonafide Bad-Ass.