From the piece—

....Conservatives and leftists may want to redirect their frustration away from SNL’s corporate liberal bias, and towards entrepreneurial efforts to fund, produce, and promote alternatives to SNL...

(Ahem.)

1. Fat chance.
   
   
2. No way.
   
   
3. There's no point.

This speaks to the infantility of modern conservatism. They'd rather bitch and moan, tritely, than compose articulate ideas and communications of their own.

Furthermore, lefties in showbiz are a special case: Their career mission is to stir self-aggrandizing sentiments within their audience anyway.

And just as with the New York Times (or the Catholic church, for that matter), the best solution is simply to not consume the product.

You don't like Saturday Night Live? Don't watch Saturday Night Live.

There were moments (and only moments) in the first years which were amusing. But people who truly enjoy laughter (rather than smug celebrity culture) gave up on it early in the Carter administration.

So...Jimmah Cartah ruined SNL? ah, that makes much more sense.

Some where, Skynet smiles. Some where else, someone is trying to do this with a drone.

https://youtu.be/Sp0DqARvjwY

Academic fraud, federal edition.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/five-public-colleges-have-pell-grant-graduation-rates-under-1-percent-theyre-in-the-same-state/

So...Jimmah Cartah ruined SNL? ah, that makes much more sense. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at September 29, 2019 9:19 AM

Essentially, yes. With Carter, SNL had a liberal Democrat as president and was not as enthusiastic or capable in mocking him as it was in mocking Gerald Ford, the president when SNL first aired. Note that Chase's Ford is remembered even today. Who played Carter on SNL?

Exactly... Carter was easier to laugh at than SNL, especially by Jan '77

Even the dog is judging him:

https://twitter.com/discovery_jp/status/1177565888024698882

"There were moments (and only moments) in the first years which were amusing. But people who truly enjoy laughter (rather than smug celebrity culture) gave up on it early in the Carter administration."

A good observation... My memories of SNL revolved around watching it with friends, in the den of a particular house that my parents lived in during the 1970s. I moved out when I graduated from high school in 1978. I have no particular memories of anything I've seen on SNL after that.

(A complicating factor: ABC aired a competing show called Fridays starting in 1980. I don't recall Fridays' comedy being any better than SNL in general, although anyone who ever saw the show probably remembers "The Pharmacist" bits. Where Fridays won was in its music acts: while SNL was fixated on '70s folkies like Joni Mitchell, Fridays was bringing the likes of Devo, The Pretenders, and the Discipline-era King Crimson. So, for my cohort, SNL was passe and Fridays was our generation's show.)

Cousin Dave— You're a brother. The King Crimson video coverage on Fridays was an obsession at my teevee workplace for the next year: Seeing exactly what those guys were doing on those instruments meant a lot to us. (You can look it up on Youtube, but IIRC, that copy is crummy and low-luminance. But musically and otherwise, it feels like yesterday.) We'd see how sloppy SNL was in comparison and just boggle... It was as if the NBC team, both the union crews and the production management, were actively hostile to musical talent. Meanwhile, it's probable that neither program offered a belly laugh in that entire season.

Ah, here and here.