Did this show really suck?

I dont think it sucked. It had some great comics in it and good writting and some great characters. It didn't make it for whatever reason. But then again, that doesn't mean much. I just saw lastnight on a Seinfeld special that his show nearly failed to. And look what became of that show.

I used to watch Fridays every week and for me, Richards in that had some of the funniest stuff to date. I only have 1 show on tape anymore. But its classic and still has me rolling on the floor.

Maybe someday they will release them on some DVDs. I am really surprised they weren't during the hey-day of Seinfeld since both Richards, and Larry David were on the show.

If you ever get the chance to check out Fridays, do so. Its classic.

PS, imo, the latest SNL cast is one of the worst out there with the exception of like 2 cast members. I always liked SCTV a lot more than a lot of years of SNL(save the originals and Murphy/Pisecpo years). Though SCTV take some getting use to and learning the characters a bit more to "get it".

Fridays was a pretty damned good comedy show. It was, of course, a direct rip-off of SNL, but it was still pretty good. I have not watched SNL in over five years because I could not stand watching a 90 minute "comedy" show and never be moved to laughter. Not even once!!

Fridays may have been "minor league" compared to the SNL of the day, but it was funny, and had some great characters.

No, in fact this show did not suck. It was incredibly funny. In fact, although on a different night, it nearly killed off SNL. Also I believe it was on longer than listed here. There is another IMDB listing for "Friday's" from 1978-1980. There is no info on anything about it on the entry, but I believe it did start in '79 or '78. It was already established when SNL hit the first entire cast change of 1980.

It was on during the infamous 1980 SNL cast. (I'd still like to go back to see those shows to see if they were really THAT much worse than the last several years of SNL.) I believe the only 2 to servive the 1980 SNL debacle were Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy, (who was just a featured player at the time.) This was the season that also gave us Gilbert Godfry who, believe it or not, was immensely more annoying back then. Anyway, while SNL was bombing, Friday's started moving up the ratings. It was hysterical! The only reason I ever watched any Seinfeld was due to remembering Michael Richards from Fridays.

Melanie Chartoff and their version of, "Weekend Update", (can't recall what they called it.), was head and shoulders above the current SNL product. (Weekend Update had been renamed, "The Rocket Report" with Charles Rocket -- the doctor boyfriend from "Earth Girls are Easy.) Darrow Igus' "Jamaican Chef" sketches were some of the funniest reccuring character sketches of all late night sketch TV. Brandis Kemp did a reccuring prostitute-ish palm reader that would always end up, (mistakenly) predicting gruesome death and destruction. Michael Richards also had several recurring characters that were just masterful.

They even had their share of controversy. One skit entitled, "Diner of the Living Dead", got them dumped from several affiliates. I saw it on the original broadcast, and laughed my tail off! Couple comes into a diner, and finds that all the clientele are zombies, eating rather real looking human body parts. All that's on the menu are body parts. It goes on from there. Gruesome, yes, but done in a hysterical way.

Around the same time, (might have been the same show, but I'm don't think so), they also got dropped by many affiliates for being, (if not the first show, than probably one of the first), to say "masturbation" on the air. Upset quite a few people.

Anyway, I would go nuts if this ever came out on DVD. If it does, definitely check it out. If you think the character, "Kramer" was crazy, well, he looks perfectly sane compaired to the antics of this show.
ManicNole!

suck?

read some posts.

this show was so good and so controversial that it was killed off right after Reagan got elected.

Larry David was just an AVERAGE person on this show.

I want Fridays to come out on DVD SO BADLY THAT I CAN HARDLY BREATHE!

I can handle it. I can handle it.

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Fridays blew SNL away with their musical guests. Other than that it was a very poor rip off of SNL. In particularly the one note drug skits were really tiresome.Michael Richards had a few moments, but back in the day I would tune away and come back when the musical guests were on.

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No, the writing on Fridays was vastly superior to SCTV, and all the Fridays performers were invited to be on SNL later. SCTV had performers who transitioned to SNL, but they never really had the more unique adult humor writers that SNL and Fridays had.