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.
I haven't watched it much since the days of Kevin Nealon doing Weekend Update, Wayne's World, Toonces the Driving Cat, Deep Thoughts with Jack Handy, and Sprockets.
Were you surprised??? Those "Funhouse" skits are usually repulsive.
I haven't watched them since Murray left.
Screw the Satan's Spawn of Lorne Michaels.
If you can't handle intentional comedy, stick to CBN with weatherman Pat Robertson and the big-hair church ladies.
I stopped watching SNL over 20 years ago.............Around the same time I lost my Communist girlfriend from Massachusetts.
I haven't watched that pompous show since I realized that they realized they were hugh, and started to take themselves too series.
Now, if I find that I've flipped through the channels and catch a glimpse of them, well, I just HAVE to stune them with my remote beeber.
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And after last night, I'm about to give up on MadTV as well.
Don't stop watching because you were offended by the skit; stop watching because the show is awful. Any bits I do watch are boring as heck - the current cast isn't the least bit funny.
I remember when it first originated it was a very funny, and slightly irreverent.
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.
Tina Fey should be fired immediately as head writer.