Posted on 11/20/2004 9:15:24 PM PST by paulsy
I can't believe what I just saw on that show. If you watched it, you know what I'm talking about. The "funhouse" skit...
I thought that was SC TV stuff.
I turned it off right when that skit went on...
So intelligent and so right on many domestic and foreign policy issues, many FReepers seem to turn into blathering goofballs at the first sight of a movie/tv show/musician who offends their sensibilities.
You know, your personal taste is just that (and only that) and is far from the be all and end all on the matter.
SNL is supposed to mock authority and the President is NOT EXEMPT from this in any way. SNL skewers politicians on both sides of the equation pretty fitfully if you ask me, and Senator sKerry got his just as Bush did during the election (conservative writer Jim Downey made sure to balance liberal head writer Tina Fey with his nightly input). Bush won, and they'll send a few jabs his way an episode from now on. The TV Funhouse was a comedic exaggeration of anti-homosexual feelings among SOME Bush supporters, meant for a laugh rather that to be taking seriously.
Yeah, It was pretty dumb, but fairly funny all the same. The ending of the sketch was so ridiculous I don't see how anybody could get offended by it. Neither the worst or best sketch of the night, which was so-so in the comedy department, but salvaged by three amazing performances from U2 (Bono is still one of the most charismatic front-men in rock history, and the Edge was on fire too).
And before any of the "ban SNL, burn the heretic" FReepers (maybe 30-40% of you, that is) get your panties in a bunch thinking that you've "got me there", let me be perfectly clear about this: Yes, I did a search for SNL just to see if any outraged folks found a sketch to boil their "righteous fury" over. On a good week, we get 1 or 2 of these goofy threads, and I sure do enjoy them in spite of myself.
"Thanks for the heads-up. Is it worth a FCC complaint?
Yes, I believe so. They showed cartoon Ellen having sex (sounds and all) with some cartoon guy; and Rose O'Donnell with Richard Simmons."
Excuse me, but I believe that conservatives like me (and like you probably claim to be) believe in a little thing called "Freedom of speech" and another little thing called "getting the government out of our homes, lives, finances, and bedrooms".
No authoritarians-in-sheeps-clothing need apply to the cause of political conservativism. Go "Michael Powell" yourself, paulsy...
Example 1 of Wizski's taste: "And I'm about as easy going as they come"
Example 2: "They don't know what real comedy is, so they debase the viewers with Sex, foul language, obscene displays, gestures, etc.., and then say we are stuffy puritans."
Now, tell me. Did you get whiplash from how fast you contradicted yourself? Hate to tell you, man, but if you're over the age of 16 that last quote seems to put you SQUARELY in the camp of the stuffy puritans.
"For example, have they produced a muslim character comparable to the Christian Church Lady?"
You missed the point. Those sketches weren't meant to mock Christianity at all. Rather, the target was the type of Fallwell/Swaggert-esque blue-noses who seem to get a sadistic kick out of telling anyone who disagrees with them that they are going to hell for the small or non-existant vices. Church Lady doesn't mock the vast majority of Christians (I'm a Christian, and wouldn't tolerate them if they mocked Jesus), but the weirdo fringe element we all knew at least one of as kids who insisted that their beliefs on sex, religion, etc gave them the right to tell others how they can behave. Call them the "Wash your mouth out with soap" brigade.
The Church Lady was a wickedly (pun intended) funny character, and I love those sketches.
"radical Lesbian Feminist Hate-fest"
Tina Fey is very straight, and recently married at that. The "lesbian" bits on Weekend Update are jokes, you humorless jacka**.
muslims are notoriously thin-skinned. Unless SNL is prepared to run a little sandpaper over that thin skin, they're playing it safe, in my view.
See my post #170 immediately prior to this one.
Tina Fey should be fired immediately as head writer.
"Any way, I avoided the show since the Bill Buckner fiasco. Not because of game, but because
of guest host Rosanna Arquette trashing the Gipper."
I saw an old rerun of that episode once on cable, and I think the comments were made in the monologue right before the 1986 mid-term elections.
Rosanna was ignorant and wrong, to say the least, but that was only troublesome to me because nowhere in her liberal screed did she attempt to tell any kind of joke, therefore abusing the monologue format of SNL. I will give her one thing though: she was hotter than hell back then.
Yeah, but Darrell Hammond (sp?), who does Clinton, is dead on!
I've seen skits mocking the Taliban, Al-Quaida, Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein-- extremely public examples of Muslims. No, I don't remember there being a Church-Lady-type Muslim character on the show, but maybe that's just because Tina and Lorne like their heads to remain on their shoulders.
I see that you've gotten my point.
The hostility from that side is probably going to get worse before it gets better, just my humble opinion. People here definitely don't share the outlook of those freaks. It's just a funny show. Watch it for the occasional true comedy, or watch it for the comic value. Either way, it's all good.. just PVR it, so you can skip the commercials.
First, I should start by saying that I didn't see the skit in question. SNL has not been high on my priority list for at least 10 years, but it WAS funny at one time. As conservatives, we need to maintain a healthy sense of humor, because we aren't perfect either, and a little bit of humorous jabbing (even if it is thoroughly un-funny) is good for us--it keeps us focused on our values.
No matter how much the Left carps at those values, we still have Nixon's "silent majority." Unfortunately, the rhetoric often corrupts and poisons our children unless we as parents living in the REAL world (a concept the left has yet to grasp) step up and provide the kind of values and moral leadership example that founded and has kept this country going for 200+ years.
I used to religiously watch SNL in the early 90s. Those who indicate that it hasn't been funny since 1985--what about the Carvey/Hartman/Sandler/Myers/Farley/Spade era? A brief bright spot, to be certain, but some memorable (and funny) stuff during that time.
Finally, humor is humor, and it will occasionally offend people, particularly when it hits a little too close to the truth. I am not defending SNL, because lately, their show has been nothing short of awful, but let's all keep in mind that humor, by its nature, pokes fun at or satirizes something. When it becomes vicious or unintelligent, people will stop enjoying it, and fewer and fewer people will watch. Ultimately, the free market of ideas will correct itself and the show will either reinvent itself or be cancelled when it loses its core audience. If SNL or any other show shoots itself in the foot often enough, it will eventually be off the air.
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