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I Watched SNL's Cold Open So You Don’t Have To... It Was Even Worse Than Expected
https://pjmedia.com ^ | 11/10/2024 | matt margolis

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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To: bitt

What a pathetic opening...I guess one needs to be an intellectual leftist to appreciate it .


61 posted on 11/10/2024 11:01:32 AM PST by mythenjoseph (`Islam has no place within a Christian society)
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To: bitt

It’s all they know, sycophant cultism.

They can’t imagine anyone having an honest different opinion or belief.


62 posted on 11/10/2024 11:21:26 AM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: sjmjax

I still remember Goldie Hawn in the dance skit making a joke about two guys in California getting married, and it was very funny because the idea was that only California was capable of something so ridiculous. And yet here we are.


63 posted on 11/10/2024 11:33:48 AM PST by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: dangus

My wife and I still watch some major network products, though on a much-delayed basis: Lois and Clark, Moonlighting


64 posted on 11/10/2024 11:39:29 AM PST by ChessExpert (Scarborough: "This is the Best Biden ever.")
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To: bitt

I stopped watching in the 70’s when Chevy Chase did a mock commercial for flavored douche products.


65 posted on 11/10/2024 11:46:48 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: bitt
As a kid in the '90s..

As a college student in the 70s, after the original cast went into more lucrative positions, it stopped being funny.

66 posted on 11/10/2024 1:28:56 PM PST by LouAvul
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To: nikos1121

One maybe funny sketch can’t fix a den who’ve belittled people on the right for years. Nope, that show is dead and should be cancelled


67 posted on 11/10/2024 3:13:09 PM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: ChessExpert

#64 much-delayed basis: Lois and Clark

Spoiler alert: Clark is Superman


68 posted on 11/10/2024 5:42:11 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: The Louiswu

Agreed

I stopped the day they mocked the death of Karen Carpenter. They had a zombie of her playing drums.


69 posted on 11/11/2024 1:06:10 AM PST by nikos1121
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