Is it just me, or does the current season of Saturday Night Live seem a bit weak?

Letting Will Ferrell leave was their biggest mistake. I mean, it's a topical comedy show, and he's the guy who does the President for heck's sake!

Not only that, but he was the strongest performer on the last several seasons.

Now who do we have?

Rachel Dratch, Chris Parnell and Maya Rudolph, are good, but the rest of the cast are weak, very weak.

Darell Hammond was great as Bill Clinton, but those days are over. Now he's been almost relagated to a supporting role.

Chris Kattan? What can I say? Apart from Mr Peepers, you're not funny. Camp? Yes. Gay? Maybe. Funny? No fucking way.

Jimmy Fallon needs to stop adoring himself so much. Jimmy, you're a pretty young lad, now quit grinning at yourself and move on.

Tracy Morgan, who if he stops playing the race card for a minute, is a good performer, seems to have been largely written out of the new Fall 2002 season.

Horiatio Sanz manages to be both the show's token Latino and token fat person. I'm sure he's thrilled about that. He's an adequate performer, but he's constantly pigeon-holed into the same 'aren't fat people funny' roles.

And then there's Amy Poehler, who frankly, creeps me out. I think it's the crooked gap-toothed grin that does it. By the way Amy, if you're reading this, that whole "one-legged girl" thing? SUCKS. It wasn't funny the first time, and it sure as shit isn't funny after you've dragged it out these three or four times.

There's a whole bunch of almost nameless white middle-class guys in supporting roles, who are neither funny nor entertaining. I'm not going to bother trying to find out their names because none of them have managed to make me laugh yet.

Finally, there's the writers. What the hell has happened to the writing team for this season? There must be something other than the departure of Will Ferrell that's made this season truly suck, and I think the writing team are part of the problem.

One little gem remaining in the show is Weekend Update. The writing is some of the only good stuff the show has this season. Also, Tina Fey is cute. I think it's the glasses, and the fact that she writes. But that's still not enough to make Jimmy Fallon's constant grinning bearable.

Saturday Night Live? Barely. It's looking rather frail.