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Forget Trump and Clinton. ‘Black Jeopardy’ is SNL’s best political sketch this year.
Washington Post ^ | 10/24/16 | Dan Zac

Posted on 10/24/2016 3:31:53 PM PDT by Timpanagos1

Just before midnight Saturday, Tom Hanks put on a denim shirt, a goatee and a red “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” hat, and in six minutes pulled off the best political sketch of the year — and it didn’t even feature Kate McKinnon or Alec Baldwin as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: comedy; snl
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21 posted on 10/24/2016 4:27:22 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Timpanagos1

Not bad, not bad at all; thanks


22 posted on 10/24/2016 4:39:19 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: LRoggy
...I don’t even believe the SNL writers understand that what they wrote is actually good for DJT with the AA audience that watched it!

That was my reaction too!

23 posted on 10/24/2016 4:43:26 PM PDT by Corpus_Delicious
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To: LRoggy
Saw it and loved it. I don’t even believe the SNL writers understand that what they wrote is actually good for DJT with the AA audience that watched it!

I avoided it when I heard about it, but I relented and just watched it a couple of times. It is actually very subversive, in a good way. The first time I watched it, I thought Hanks was playing stereotype of a Trump supporter from the perspective of the wealthy New York whites, and he kind of is. But it was also written by Michael Che, a black comedian who is very good, and much more perceptive about race than most. The perspective of the skit is not from upper class whites, but from showing that blacks and Trump supporters have a whole lot more in common than people think. It ends up positive towards Trump and conservatives, and shrugs off the rich white perspective as irrelevant.

24 posted on 10/24/2016 5:26:10 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: forgotten man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMFJBd40Awo


25 posted on 10/24/2016 5:30:26 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: Timpanagos1

My uncle Ichabod was funnier than that.
Comical old gentleman, would always say something that would make ya split yer sides a laffin.


26 posted on 10/24/2016 5:41:41 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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He would say,the city’s no place for a gal, but I hear pretty men go thar..


27 posted on 10/24/2016 5:45:07 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Timpanagos1

Eddie Murphy’s “white like me” SNL skit is no longer on Yourube but it is here: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/white-like-me/n9308

Poor people of all races have a lot in common.
It’s horrid that poor negroes are given a false excuse for their situation.


28 posted on 10/24/2016 5:46:47 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Yourube? That’s racist!


29 posted on 10/24/2016 5:52:52 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Timpanagos1

Shy black voters...they out there.


30 posted on 10/24/2016 5:56:37 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mylife

I think the qwerty keyboard was designed with the intent to make mistakes funny!


31 posted on 10/24/2016 6:55:11 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Gay State Conservative; mythenjoseph

The “The Mad Real World” was pretty good and so was the Prince and Charlie Murphy basketball game.


32 posted on 10/24/2016 7:45:06 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Timpanagos1

That’s cute. There’s a sitcom in that material.


33 posted on 10/24/2016 7:56:15 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Timpanagos1

bump


34 posted on 10/24/2016 8:40:03 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. --Donald Trump (standing ovation)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I liked Chapelle doing a newscast on what happens when blacks get reparations for slavery. A lot of truth to it.

“In another story, the crime rate has dropped to zero percent.....How could that be, did the Mexicans get money today, too?.......Oh, I shouldn’t have said that.”

Then when the camera is off he tells the director, “That’s ok, Mexicans don’t watch the news.”


35 posted on 10/24/2016 8:45:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Jeff Chandler

Oh you wrong fo dat.


36 posted on 10/24/2016 9:17:49 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: mythenjoseph

Especially the one line about why he had to divorce his wife.

Classic!


37 posted on 10/24/2016 9:20:10 PM PDT by Bullish (The fly on Hillary's forehead knows)
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