Posted on 01/28/2024 2:11:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
Going into Race: The Movie: The Play, I was skeptical. What could possibly be said about racial-harmony movies like Green Book and Django Unchained that hasn’t already been said in snarky Tweets? Anyway, Green Book was released five years ago now, and it seems like even more of a relic in a post-COVID world. Why now?
I needn’t have worried. Co-writers Bret Raybould and Cristian Duran, with Duran at the helm directing and Raybould co-starring alongside “Saturday Night Live” alumnus Dean Edwards, have put together a breezy, laugh-out-loud satire that starts with a Green Book-type plot and tackles everything from racial slurs to cancel culture to Disney IP. With a huge cast, goofy stage fighting, and plenty of knowing asides to the audience, it makes for a fun, thought-provoking ninety minutes at Soho Playhouse.
This self-aware show addresses the elephant in the room head-on with a pre-show announcement: Raybould is white, and Duran half-Black. Raybould even goes so far as to bill himself as “Random White Guy” on the poster and Playbill. Raybould’s character, the uncouth Wyatt Saveyer, constantly reminds everyone that he is only sort of white – he’s Italian!
It’s the 1850s and Wyatt is hired to drive the intellectual Gene Yus (Edwards) through what could be considered the “Deep South” (Pennsylvania and Maryland). Wyatt prefers to spend his time “telegramming” his wife sexy emoticons, leading the duo into a wagon accident. Everything goes awry from there, with Wyatt accidentally texting the KKK instead of AAA.
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Don’t know him. I guess he started and retired from SNL in the time since I quit watching.
Is it in the same league as Blazing Saddles?
We have The Best of John Belushi on VCR (Yes, we still have several VCR machines, and VCR cleaners) Belushi is amazing. Samurai Taylor, Samurai Deli, many But.. Nooooooo... Blues Brothers, and on and on.
If SNL wanted to reclaim the glory of its early years, it should start with a weekly game-show skit called:
What did Joe Biden Say?
Who?
What is?
Anyhoo, two words that Americans cannot say: whites can’t say the N-word and
blacks can’t say ask.
No thanks. Just what the world needs. Another lets make whitey look stupid movie, co written by a self hating white guy about an “uncouth” white guy and an “intellectual” black guy. SMH
With them dragging in the democrats beloved KKK 2 decades before they created it can we assume the rest of the show is of equal quality.
Or should I not point that out?
Was in college when SNL started.
Parties on Saturday night shut down and TVs came on when SNL came on.
Great times!
What about the one he gives the weather report?
YOU just kept me from posting the same thing.
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