04/27/2001: InfoBeat Fun - Daily Dose Cool Site of the Day Saturday Night You "Saturday Night Live" has remained an institution for over 25 years yet, as popular as it is, there has always been a steady stream of criticism. Declarations of "Even I could write a funnier skit" inevitably follow at least one sketch per episode, prompting a new Web site called Saturday Night You. This is the place to put your money where your mouth is - check out who'll be hosting next week's episode and write a sketch with that host in mind. Submit the idea and you'll soon be part of this new writing team that loves to prove they're better than SNL writers - but secretly admire them. May 4th, 2001: EW Recommends SATURDAY NIGHT YOU · (snlyou.jt.org) Pen your own SNL skits here, then pray Lorne Michaels notices. B+ 5/2/01: Hip Clicks by Whitney Matheson tube warp Ever want to write for Saturday Night Live? Well, now you can — sort of. Saturday Night You gives SNL fans the chance to submit their own sketch ideas. Head to the archives to read ideas for skits that never saw airtime, including one undiscovered gem called, uh, "The Crapless Hat." 5/8/01: Back from the dead -- it's "Saturday Night Live"! OK, there's still a stubborn tendency to stretch thin skits to unbearable lengths and to indulge some of the players' more unfortunate creations -- please Chris Kattan, give us less Peepers and more Mango. (Fans who think they can do better than the "SNL" writing staff have been penning skits -- with results as uneven as the real thing -- for the Saturday Night You Web site, which is unaffiliated with the show. Give it a shot.) But when the writing is smoking, "Saturday Night Live" achieves something I never thought I'd see again. It creates the kind of excitement it did in the early days, back when watching it was a dorm-room ritual that made you feel like you were receiving a secret transmission from the coolest people on the planet. Full article 5/8/01: Live From The Internet, It's Fan Sketches We've all sat through Saturday Night Live and thought that we could come up with better skits than the writers. (Especially during the last half-hour dregs.) Now you can write your own skits for the not-ready-for-primetime players. As mentioned in Salon, SNL You lets you write and submit your own material for the week's host. Dig out those Twin Peaks skits from 1991 for this week's host Lara Flynn Boyle. Stop complaining about the quality of SNL and write your own stuff. From the site: "Whether it's your life's dream to become a sketch writer, or you just want to amuse yourself and other fans, this is the place to hone your sketch comedy writing skills." Get to it folks! And please, no more Mango skits. Full article 5/25/01: Link of the Day, Part One - Saturday Night You Cool site where anyone can post "submissions" for Saturday Night Live sketches... I haven't had a chance to scroll through some of the skits yet but there are supposedly some funny ones. Great idea. I wish they had it 8 years ago because I would have written about 100 of them.