Posted on 11/10/2024 8:09:23 AM PST by bitt
I honestly can’t tell you the last time I watched “Saturday Night Live.” As a kid in the '90s, it was a weekly ritual. And then it just stopped being funny. The only thing worse than a skit show that isn’t funny is a skit show that isn’t funny and that is blatantly partisan in how it handles politics. And you don’t have to watch SNL to know that it has been rabidly anti-conservative for a long time now. When they do something particularly awful, you hear about it on social media.
Eight years ago, SNL reacted to Donald Trump’s victory with Kate McKinnon portraying Hillary Clinton singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”
This cold open made waves for being a major departure for the show, as it set a somber, mournful tone without even trying to be funny.
After Trump’s victory on Tuesday, I decided I’d have to see how SNL was going to handle Trump’s latest victory.
Of course, it was a heavy-handed attempt to mock Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, devoted to partisan fear-mongering far more than actual humor. Right off the bat, you knew it was going to be bad. The cold open began with four cast members standing somberly in a row, looking like they were at a funeral. It was clear at this moment that this was going to be worse than the Kate McKinnon skit eight years earlier.
The cast—and I have no idea what their names are, so pardon my vagueness—sets the tone by framing Trump’s win as “shocking and even horrifying,” clearly not even considering the fact that they may still have viewers who are happy with the election results. And considering the huge swing to Trump in 2024 over 2020, they may still, even if it's only a few. Instead, we got left-wing
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There’s no magic, he slammed Republicans for not accepting election outcomes, and claiming that Demwits do, not acknowledging the escalating riots going on as he spoke. He’s just another demagogue from the Demagogic Party.
The shows when Nate Bartgaze hosts are funny, especially the Washington’s Dreams skits. Very funny.
He’s a democrat and he hates Trump - I get that part. And yeah that part’s kind of painful. But if Maher hadn’t taken that stance - or ‘been that person’ he would not have been able to do what he did. Guess we’re going to have to agree to disagree on this one.
Thanks for your sacrifice. I was curious but I don’t stay up that late.
https://youtu.be/6NE_kbJQ8r8?feature=shared
Excuse me. I just watched it and it’s actually pretty funny. How can someone say that this is anything but simple sarcasm and quite clever as far as I’m concerned.
As a die-hard Trumper, I can still laugh at jokes made about him (and they hit the Democrats sort of hard too in recent weeks).
I think many of our Freepers are getting cantankerous and grouchy in their old age. SNL is never going back to the days of Belushi and Radner. But they do okay for nearly a 50 year old show.
Watch the SNL election night 2016 with Dave Chapelle it was good.
Yep I was thinking the same thing. It was about 1980s quit bothering.
Remember when Gerald Ford stumbled one time and they mocked him continuously for years. Joe Biden nah
Watching the election Night 2016 SNL skit is even better in 2024. They reveal themselves then.
I’m so old i can remember a time when bill burr was actually funny. Whatever that was, it wasn’t funny.
Most of the skits were humorous… missed the opening and the monologue had a little trump bashing, but was funny
If SNL had any real sense of humor they would have mocked themselves for covering up Joe Biden’s senility and blamed themselves for the Harris debacle.
I chuckled. There's an element of truth to it.
Trump WILL be going after the people who tried to destroy him.
"If you come for the king, you'd best not miss."
If SNL had any sense of humility and self awareness perhaps they would have a sense of humor.
Nasty belittling of normal people who don’t share your worship of socialism is not a “sense of humor”
“Seems funny to me.”
Me, too. You can interpret it anyway you want, but I looked at it as them making fun of psychotic people who really think that way.
He’s an entertainer, and has to backpedal a little, some CYA, because he’s on the wrong side and wants to pretend to be the white line down the middle of the road. IOW, he’s lying when he seems to move a little. As you said, we’ll have to agree to disagree.
I actually thought it was one of their funnier skits.
I’m disappointed in Kenan Thompson. The rest can GTH.
SNL still around? I was upset in 1975 when our local TV station dumped “Fantastic Theater” SI-FI movies for “Live from New York! It’s Saturday Night!”
I even watched it hoping the station would have Fantastic Theater on after. They didn’t.
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