SNL is the only show in TV history that is 100% driven by the cast.

SNL is the only show in TV history that is 100% driven by the cast. If the cast is awful the show is awful. If the cast is great the show is great. There is no arguing that. It is also the most difficult show to be a cast member of; with a 100 hour plus work week that can only be survived with the help of coke, speed, and/or whatever else keeps you awake – paranoia? That too, because it was all on your shoulders like with no other job!
Go back and look at the eras you loved and chances are you were laughing at Aykroyd, Belushi, Carvey, Chase, Crystal, Curtin, Fallon, Farley, Ferrell, Fey, Franken, Hammond, Hartman, Kattan, Lovitz, Miller, Murphy, Murray, Myers, Newman, Piscopo, Poehler, Quinn, Radner, Rock, Sandler, or Spade.
The show stinks now because the cast stinks now.
That is 100% on the shoulders of the management of NBC. How many idiotic things has this management team done? {Leno / O’Brien ring a bell?}. The way to improve late night, both on weekends and weekdays, is to literally flush out every single member of upper management at NBC – kind of like firing every single solitary incumbent in Washington DC is what’s needed there! This is the era of Incumbent equals incompetent.
In an era of media moguls with massive misplaced egos and arrogance, and absolutely zero talent, smarts, or good judgment to back it up – the absolute kings of the hill among them are the nit-wits atop the management turd pile at NBC.
Terminate them and problem solved: instantly!