OK, I'll admit I love Triumph also. ( I despise Robert Smiegel's political ideology though!)
Posted on 11/20/2004 9:15:24 PM PST by paulsy
Insanity I suppose. It shouldn't surprise me but for some reason this time it really pissed me off, not sure why I put up with it for so long. I've never actually seen it this bad; maybe I just needed a good slap or something.
The liberals on that show are a bunch of filthy, racist, religious bigots. They're not even that funny anymore. I wonder if they realize they maybe pissed off quite a few people for the last time, I doubt I'm the only one.
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.
SNL hasn't been funny in over twenty years, in my view (Chevy Chase was funny and innovative before he became publicly and vocally enamored with Castro).
Do you remember, on the SNL show immediately after Clintoon's win ( don't remember which one), there were a few news reports that they had put up a graphic at the end of the show for a few seconds saying something particularly complimentary about Clinton? I don't know the exact text because I haven't watched the show since the '70's.
Things were so much nicer when these celebrities largely kept their vacuous mouths shut and just acted, instead of thinking that they have something deep to say about politics and culture, and then thinking that they have to actually verbalize their stupidit on the air.
I don't really understand how the advertisers are putting up with this, because they're ticking off well over 51% of their audience when they pull this garbage. Maybe their target advertising demographic is 12 year old drunks?
Agreed, LL's boobs are huge, and the movie was awful.
I love Triumph and I can't help it.
turned off my tv set this elections...... dont watch it any more....... excpet for cowboys games .... even then i was 15min of them until they make me sick then i turn it off...... big tv set ....... waste of money...... big waste of money......
Trash TV. Start complaining to advertisers about the Low Quality, No Quality that they are supporting. Hit them in the Pocket Book, The thought of being Stupid Middle America really scares them.
Alienating 50% of their potential audience, perhaps. But I suspect most of the people they'd alienate stopped watching long ago.
I haven't watched it in years. Don't watch NBC OR CBS any more. The list is growing. Pretty soon, there will just be Fox News (and even that's getting iffy due to O'Reilly) and the Library.
Saw an interesting 'list' posted on the fray just now. It might have even been posted here first, but I haven't had time to look. It was posted here:
http://fray.slate.msn.com/?id=3936&m=13084710
Losers
By Michael Paranzino
Every election produces losers. Here, before we let the 2004 election season pass into posterity, is a partial list:
John Kerry, John Edwards, George Soros, Michael Moore and Osama bin Laden, Jimmy Carter, Dan Rather, everyone at the New York Times except David Brooks and William Safire, Bruce Springsteen, MoveOn, Tom Daschle, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, France, the Dixie Chicks, the Zogby brothers, Kofi Annan and the United Nations, Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, Iran's nuclear weapons program, Mary Mapes, Eddie Vedder, CBS News, Dana Milbank and many of his colleagues at the Washington Post, Meathead, Richard Clarke, trial lawyers, the left-wing 527s and their bankrollers Peter B. Lewis and Stephen L. Bing and Herb Sandler and Linda Pritzker, Chris Matthews, Old Europe, Jon Bon Jovi, Harvard, NAACP, Janeane Garofalo, Al Gore, Al Sharpton, Mohamed ElBaradei, Susan Estrich, Joshua Micah Marshall, 60 Minutes, George Clooney and his dad, Andrew Sullivan, that liberal radio network if it still exists, People for the American Way, Terry McAuliffe, the Washington Press Corps, Ralph Nader, Rock the Vote, Jon Corzine, left-wing bloggers, Yasser Arafat, Ed Asner, Howard Dean, NARAL, terrorists in Fallujah, Bob Schrum, virtually everyone in Berkeley and Hollywood and Manhattan, Joe Wilson, October Surprises, WTO protesters, Jesse Jackson, Martin Sheen, 60 Minutes II, Helen Thomas, the McCain-Feingold law, Cameron Diaz, Jacques Chirac, Barbra Streisand, the liberal/mainstream media, David Kay, Joe Klein, "Judging Amy" writers and all the others who injected anti-Bush propaganda into their material, Nancy Pelosi, Mark Halperin, MTV, Sean Penn, Sarah Brady, Joe Lockhart, Tucker Carlson's predictive abilities since he joined CNN, Al Franken, Chris Heinz, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, Molly Ivans, Roger Ebert, Kim Jong Il, exit polls, VVAW, Salon.com if it still exists, P. Diddy, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Eleanor Clift, Ann Stone, ACLU, Ibrahim Hooper, Rand Beers, Spain's voters, Wesley Clark, and the much-ballyhooed so-called "youth vote."
Of course, elections also provide winners, which this year includes: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Zell "Spitballs?" Miller, Hillary Clinton, Tom DeLay, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, people of faith, the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, and most of all the American people.
Postscript: A friend, Michael Dunnigan, has noted that Sen. Kerry's defeat has cost us the opportunity to see Kerry's "Dream Team" in action: Secretary of State Jimmy Carter, Secretary of Defense Michael Moore, Attorney General Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court Janet Reno, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Howard Stern, Surgeon General William Kennedy Smith, and Ambassador to the Holy See Madonna.
That list could have made for an impressive Get Out The Vote piece, no?
URL: http://www.americandaily.com/article/5690
I agree. When I was growing up (not too long ago as I'm now in college), from about 6th or 7th grade on, I used to stay up late on Saturday nights and watch at least the first half of the show. I was never really familiar with some of the old greats, but the cast at the end of the 90s was pretty good in my estimation. They've lost a lot of talent and they stopped doing comedy--they transitioned into a DNC mouthpiece.
MAD TV is heading down the slope too. For the first 6 years they were fresh, but now the show is stale and tonight they just plain spent half the show bashing Bush. I still enjoy watching the Comedy Central reruns as THAT was actually comedy. This isn't comedy nor does it purport to be.
Is this true confessions?
I too love Triumph, and I can't help it.
You're absolutely right, SNL hasn't been funny since the days of John Belushi (well, "Mister Robinson's Neighborhood" was good;)
Haven't watched since then, though!
The only part of SNL I saw tonight was when Bono and U2 were performing, but I noticed one of their biggest advertisers is Budweiser. Also: Amstel Light, Saturn (cars).
The FUNHOUSE stuff is never funny, always vile and I truly don't understand why they keep it. They must have some airtight contract witht his guy. Ignore it, he wants everyone to talk about it, the best thing is not to. The guy who does these cartoons has been doing this for years. IGNORE IT. WE WON. Don't forget that.
Unbelievable. What was the audience's reaction?
A lot of these people that they're now ridiculing generously gave to them (NYC) post 9/11/01. Part of that archaic Christian value system we have, you know.../sarcasm
I hope most NYCers don't see us Red Staters in that light.
I haven't watched itn in 10 years.
I have to ask....
Why did you?
Ditto that. Show hasn't been funny in 20 years.
OK, I'll admit I love Triumph also. ( I despise Robert Smiegel's political ideology though!)
But has anyone ever seen SNL do a skit that makes fun of muslims? I haven't. Am I the only one who thinks that they're too scared to do or say anything which mocks muslims?
Proud to tell you... I disconnected my television "service" years ago.
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