Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Jane Curtin has taken a retrospective look at her early work on the iconic sketch comedy show, and she’s candidly admitting that she doesn’t find it very funny when revisiting it today.
In an interview with People, Curtin shared her thoughts on watching a compilation video of the first five years of “Saturday Night Live,” which was sent to her a few years ago. The actress revealed, “We were out visiting her [her daughter’s] one Christmas, and her husband said, ‘Have you ever watched any of these? And I said, ‘God, I haven’t seen them in a long time.’ He said, would you mind if we watch one? And I said, ‘No, great! Pick one!’ So we sat around the TV, and I had that sort of anticipatory, open-mouth grin that people have when they’re waiting for something to happen, that they know is going to be really great. And … it never happened. It wasn’t funny. Not one thing was funny. There was not one utterance of a laugh or a giggle.”
Curtin was an integral part of the original “Not Ready For Prime Time Players” during the show’s inaugural season in 1975. She continued to be part of the cast until the 1979-1980 season of the NBC sketch comedy program.
Curtin attributed the lack of humor she perceived in the early “SNL” episodes to the show’s being “dated,” highlighting its topical and live nature. She explained, “Remember, this was almost 50 years ago. But after we rewatched, I was like, ‘That really wasn’t a very good show. It was terrible!'”
Despite her overall assessment, Curtin did single out a bright spot, noting that she still finds Dan Aykroyd’s iconic “Bass-o-matic” sketch funny even today.
