Saturday Night Live Sinks To New Low

NBC | 3-14-04

[My Favorite Headache]

Did anyone just see the Saturday Night Live cartoon ragging on The Passion of the Christ? They had it as "The Passion of the Dumpty" as in Humpty Dumpty. Showing a fried egg as the last supper and going to heaven and making fun of the imgage of Christ dying on the cross.

I have never felt more insulted than I do right now as a Catholic. Plus they had Bush smear commercials in between the skits and painted Mel Gibson to be insane.

[verity]

Why do watch this crap?

[F16Fighter]

"I find it hard to believe that you could infer from my post that I would find your potential Pope skit inoffensive."

But NOT "offensive" enough to demand an apology or evoke ourage??

I defer back to my original unanswered question:

Is NOTHING sacred??

[AlbionGirl]

Much is sacred to me, but I don't need an apology to restore to a sacred state that which is intrinsically sacred, and cannot be made unsacred by dint of being mocked by people who don't find it sacred.

An apology from such people would only be extracted under duress. If that type of apology appeases your appetite for the restoration of the sacred, to that which never can lose its intrinsic sanctity, then by all means demand one.

[sokolowich]

I have to agree that the parody on the "Passion" was in poor taste. As a fellow Catholic, I understand your disgust, although I didn't find it personally attacking...I just figured SNL had nothing better to make fun of.
As for the campaign ads, I am a staunch Republican and adore the heck out of President Bush. I will defend him to my dying day, and crap in the direction of the liberal media. However, my husband and I laughed so hard that tears were flowing at the commercial with the cartoon set of seals on a seesaw, and that stupid dog dressed up in a dress. I'm sorry, guys, but I thought it was the funniest thing I've seen in years.

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

What lame dialogue.

No need to repeat it here.

We don't care about SNL.

And we don't care about you.

The tipoff was when you called our fearless Presidant "The Shrub".

Go back to DU, you maroon!
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Neither The Shrub nor Catsup Boy are qualified to occupy the office, but then neither is anyone else who is a mere human being. By trampling on constitutional limits, Rome-on-the-Potomac has revived the notion of head-of-state as member of the divine pantheon. Apparently you buy into that mythology; I don't. The differences between the two centrist (imperial) parties are minimal. One unabashedly seeks unlimited growth of the state, the other does the same, but with a slight guilt complex. Practical difference: negligibile.

Clearly a Ralph Nader type is not a viable alternative either. It would be nice if there were a place on the ballot to check "None of the Above, leave the office vacant if necessary".

I will keep looking for a presidential candidate committed to paring back the ("bi-partisan" supported) NAFTA Empire to a constitutional republic. Let me know if you hear of one.

[MEGoody]

I stopped watching SNL years ago because they stopped being funny.

[scotsman1]

Call me a snobby Brit,but SNL is the most-overrated rubbish that the US has exported(well tried,they have tried to launch it here three times at least,and it has failed miserably every time)

[Sprite518]

I have not watched it in years. I still can't believe people waste their time with that show which is not even funny. The last funny people to leave was over 20 years ago. The show stinks!

[Palladin]

BRM Geek, I understand where you're coming from. It usually boils down to choosing the lesser of two evils (or three, or four).

I hate NAFTA too. I've seen so many of my nephews lose good-paying jobs that have gone out of the country.

One guy is now working for $10 an hour as a security guard in Manhattan. That's the best he could do after two years of searching after 9-11 devastated the job market in NYC.

But what if we allow the terrorists to strike again, in more of our big cities? Isn't it better to keep a president who is tough on terrorism?

(You sound a lot like one of my sons.)