DBWI: SNL was not cancelled in 1986

As many of you know, the 11th season of SNL sucked. Lorne Michaels had a poor cast of characters who were not involved in comedy. The network hosting the show, NBC, cancelled the show after the end of the season. What would have happened had the show not ended in 1986?
 
A vapid collection of celebrity sketches and self congratulatory undergraduate humour, reliant on imported second rate wits and achieving a cult like following in the 1990s for its so bad its good cringe.
 
As many of you know, the 11th season of SNL sucked. Lorne Michaels had a poor cast of characters who were not involved in comedy. The network hosting the show, NBC, cancelled the show after the end of the season. What would have happened had the show not ended in 1986?
They would get to the same problem nine years later and cancel it. :p
 
The best case scenario would be that it could last several years but it would have eventually ended anyway as everybody would have gotten tired of the show anyway. The longest that it could have lasted would have been until the end of the 2008 to 2009 Season before the show would have been canceled by NBC anyway.
 
It was counterintuitive for NBC to cancel SNL as it had one of the best demographic audience that advertisers loved the 18-35 year olds.
NBC decided that it was not profitable enough to keep on the air, but if NBC did keep it on the air it would have gone thru cycles of being the most relevant show on television especially when current events lend themselves to immediate satire and other times especially when there are major cast changes and new writers are brought in and the critics call the show Saturday Night Dead.
 
It was counterintuitive for NBC to cancel SNL as it had one of the best demographic audience that advertisers loved the 18-35 year olds.
NBC decided that it was not profitable enough to keep on the air, but if NBC did keep it on the air it would have gone thru cycles of being the most relevant show on television especially when current events lend themselves to immediate satire and other times especially when there are major cast changes and new writers are brought in and the critics call the show Saturday Night Dead.

That's what I have heard from many over the years even when I visit the Radio Discussions Forum there is multiple threads there regarding SNL.
 
What cultural effect will it have if the slot isn't filled by Sábado Gigante from 1986 on? That was the first major bilingual program on a major network: will it mean fewer Americans absorb Spanish?
 
The American sense of humour likely wouldn't have evolved to the higher plain that has made British and Australian comedies and comics so successful in the US.
 
what would there early to mid 90's line up be ? I think it be something with Jim Carrey , Matthew Parry ? Jerry Seinfield , And some others from Fox's Mad TV and ABC's comedy hour??
 
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