Oh, Kevin Nealon, you break my heart

My latest obsession has been watching older Saturday Night Live episodes from the 80's and 90's.  Being that I'm almost 40 years old, I remember these episodes well.  Hulu Plus has all the episodes, with mostly all of the sketches (they do edit out a few of them for length).

I've enjoyed exposing my boys to the early days of Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, and Mike Myers, whom they had no idea were ever on SNL.

However, I've run into something that's been painful and irritating.  Kevin Nealon doing Weekend Update.  Weekend Update is one of my favorite things about SNL, and always has been.  The commentators from the early 90's (such as Opera Man, Ike Turner, and David Spade) are hilarious.  But, Mr. Nealon...ugh, he's horrible.  It's not so much the jokes - you can't blame that on the host - that's the writers' issue.  It's the delivery.

He stumbles constantly, sometimes starts saying the wrong part, and in general is just horrible with the presentation.  It's quite painful to watch.  Surprisingly, he never messes up the Mr. Subliminal editorials, which are always funny.  Thank goodness!!!

My favorite will always be Norm MacDonald.  He did a great deadpan. Plus, the OJ jokes never get old.  Although not an OJ joke, this is probably my favorite bit that he did: