Wow. OK, if memory serves I also really liked Tina and Jimmy as Update anchors. Of course, ever since Dennis Miller manned the update desk I've found Weekend Update to be the most reliably funny part of SNL. Yes, including Kevin Nealon. And Norm MacDonald. And Colin Quinn. And I love Tina Fey. And everything she's done from her time as SNL head writer to 30Rock, including Mean Girls. Which I watched as a 27 year-old guy.

With that out of the way, I just have to disagree with you. Were Fallon and Fey funnier than Myers and Poehler? Maybe, but neither to the degree nor with the frequency that you apparently believe. I'll agree that Fey brought something new and different to the desk, but I think your comparison of Fallon and Meyers is way off base. Tina played the "straight man" to Jimmy's manic, ADD nutcase. Seth does the same with Amy.

I'm not going to argue that Amy & Seth are BETTER than Tina and Jimmy, but if they aren't equal they sure aren't tTHAT much worse. All I know is that I rarely find myself waxing nostalgic about the Fey/Fallon era of Update...and whenever I do, I am always watching 30Rock.

As Melissalane noted, The "Really?" segment is great. There's also Amy's drunk dials. I totally disagree about their jokes lacking personality. And since Meyers is Head Writer now, I find it doubtful that the two are just "reading jokes somebody else wrote".

In addition, you are comparing 4 years of Tina/Jimmy to a little over 1 year of Amy/Seth. It's going to take a little while to get up to speed, and it didn't help that the WGA strike took out the middle 4 months of the SNL season this year.

I prefer Seth to Jimmy because Seth treats it dryly, like a newscast. Jimmy's perceived "charisma" and "personality" stems from the fact that for him Update was just doing stand-up while sitting at a desk.

Are you sure this isn't just a case of "Who ARE these people?" Nostalgia for bygone days? That's a natural feeling, one I remember several people voicing when Will Ferrell & Co. first joined the show, and he & his cohorts ended up doing some classic work. I don't mean to discount your opinion or anything, but I can't help but think some of your dislike of Amy & Seth is simply because they replaced Tina & Jimmy. They aren't nearly as UNfunny as you seem to think...

"Equally critical"? Really? When Tina & Jimmy first started you were critical of them? But Seth & Amy have pretty much just started and they're nowhere near as funny? Really? You admit that, yet you're not going to compare the two pairs on a handicap allowing for the difference in experience in the seats? Really? You prefer the airhead routing to Seth's dry, cynical sarcasm? Even though being dry and cynical seems more like an newscaster, better fitting the role? You prefer Jimmy's clownishness? Yeah, the same demeanor he brings to EVERY SINGLE ROLE he has? Really? Really? You like an anchor who can't make it through a 10 minute sketch without laughing at himself like he's the funniest thing to hit the Earth since the platypus? "Frat boy-esque?" Really? I don't particularly agree, but even if I were to concede that point, you'd still prefer Jimmy's "frat boy-esque" delivery of arguably more intelligent jokes to Seth's dry delivery of these supposed poorer jokes? Really?

I'm sorry, but I agree with Counteragent below. Tina was a 10, Seth & Amy each 7s. But Jimmy was at most a 3, and 14>13. Even if not equal, Seth & Amy ARE **NEARLY** as funny.