James Franco was the host of this week's 'Saturday Night Live' sketch show, and the actor tried to make light of the recent Sony Pictures hack in which the entire company's network was taken down and terabytes of data was stolen including contracts, social security numbers, addresses, internal passwords and full-length screeners of movies like 'Annie' and 'Fury.'
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Originally posted by hearme0: SNL isn't funny anymore.
But I'm 41 and raised in the days of when it was funny.
Yeah, SNL has had its ups and downs. Today I still fast-forward through most of it. But last Saturday did have some pretty good skits, especially the short films.
On any show, I also think everybody remembers the few really good bits and forgets all the crap. All we remember is only the good stuff and think that's how the whole show was.
I'm even older than you, and I remember SNL from the very beginning. Even today to me the original cast is still the best. But I've gone back and looked at some of those original shows and there's a lot of crap there.
Franco and Rogen got paid up-front for their work on that film a long time ago, and anything they can do now that pumps up interest among potential fans to actually go see it in a theater upon release would enhance their standing for future projects with Sony (and just maybe bump up any residual payments their agents may have negotiated).
