The whole cartoon was the most vile, wrongheaded attack against mainstream American values (in particular White conservatives and Christians) that I have ever seen on television. Their portrayals were flat wrong, their vitriol toward Christians beyond the pale. If you watched the same thing, maybe you're typing out something like this.
IMAGINE if they had done a scetch making fun of some other ethnic or religious group. The Saturday Night Live bunch must think everyone is like them. I've been watching the show since the 1970s when I was a kid. No more, that was it.
TV's Funhouse and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog: same creator (Bob Smigel). Big lefty.
What does being White have to do with anything?
I was an avid SNL fan 20 years ago. I would adjust my schedule to watch an episode.
Now, I could care less as it is simplistic, amateurish and easily predictable.
I'm not watching.......I'm here on line with you all!
Today's horribly unfunny SNL is nothing but the DNA remains of the great Carvey, Miller, Farley, Spade, Sandler, and Hartman days.
The concept of SNL was a great one. They have always had a vengence against the right. They trashed Gerald Ford to the point that it was rediculous. Ford was a pretty good football player during his college days. SNL tried to pass him off as some uncoordinated oaf. Many bought it.
Then we got that buffoon Carter.
The lampooning of the leftist presidents come off as them being smart, but pretty slick. The lampooning of conservative presidents comes off depicting them as stupid, bumbling fools or senile.
I haven't watch SNL regularly in about 20 years. The early writing was pretty damned good. Now it's all shock value and vile disgusting skits. Who needs that trash.
Too bad.
They also managed to do the Condi/Powell slam also...
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?
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.
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
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?
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.
Hey, they don't have anyone else to pick on, we won remember?
I don't watch SNL; I prefer comedy shows. ;)
Will Ferrell leaving was when I stopped watching.
I also found that skit incredibly offensive, and turned it off a few seconds after it began. I guess middle America can look forward to being bashed by the "entertainers" in Hollywood and New York for the next few years, as they perceive us as being a bunch of racist, "intolerant" Christians.
I was switching back and forth between SNL and Mad TV. I usually like the Dollar Bill Montgomery character on Mad TV, but the skit was unwatchable tonight because Bill Maher was on it trashing Bush.
It is becoming very difficult to find any comedy on TV that does not trash the President. I thought things would be better after the election, but they're worse now, as now the libs hate us and President Bush even more. Too bad for them.
urned it off