• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    On the other hand, sometimes those movies were surprising.

    Remember that The Blues Brothers was a one-joke SNL sketch, as was Spinal Tap.

    From that era, the Wayne’s World movies weren’t high art, but they were pretty funny.

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      19 days ago

      Wait! Spinal tap wasn’t an SNL sketch.

      It was a sketch on something called “The TV Show” according to wiki.

      It says they worked on a pilot for The TV Show, which had spinal tap as one of the sketches.

      I guess it still started as a sketch so you are right in your point that sometimes these things start as nothing more than that but it wasnt SNL. Although the cast have all been on SNL at some point.