101 people who are screwing up America (column by Burt Prelutsky)

WorldNetDaily ^ | August 24, 2005 | Burt Prelutsky

[EveningStar]

At the end of the book, my friend Bernie invites readers to come up with their own nominees. He now reports that the names that have come up most frequently are Sen. Dick Durbin, the idiot who compared our soldiers at Guantanamo to Nazis and other vermin; and the five justices of the Supreme Court who cast the deciding votes in the eminent domain case.

I can't argue against those six candidates making it into Goldberg's sequel. But I had already e-mailed him my own choice. That would be Lorne Michaels. He's the fellow who created "Saturday Night Live" for NBC.

[Borges]

A lot of great talent has come out of SNL over the yeas and inevitably a whole lot of garbage. I don't know what Perlutsky has against Eddie Murphy who at his best was a comic genius.

[pcottraux]

SNL needs an overhaul to make it funny again. Tina Fey is an evil communist.

[manwiththehands]

I'm a big fan of the original SNL Not-Ready-for-Primetime-Players. Most of them were very funny. The nightmare that SNL became started with Al Franken. It went downhill from there.

[kaktuskid]

SNL needs to be put to sleep...MadTV is light years funnier

[andyk]

Michaels gave Al Franken a national platform. For that, alone, the man should be forgiven nothing.

He's got a point there.

[pcottraux]

Very true. SNL used to be very funny, though, in my opinion. Then, Evil Scarface Tina Fey came in, and it went downhill from there. I loved Cheri O'Teri, and Will Ferrell, and Molly Shannon was okay, but they're all gone now. The show's at the bottom of the barrel. MadTV is indeed not only funnier, but edgier and smarter.

[Little Bill]

Ah, Burt, big fan here.

[Borges]

Anyone remember 'Not Necessarily The News'? A lot of the writers there went on to write for The Simpsons when it was at its best.

[drjimmy]

I'm a big fan of the original SNL Not-Ready-for-Primetime-Players. Most of them were very funny. The nightmare that SNL became started with Al Franken. It went downhill from there.

Except that Al Franken was with the show from the very beginning, writing skits for those same original Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players.

[exile]

I'll admit I haven't watched Saturday Night Live since Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman where on it.

Now I'm an old man (30) I'm usually asleep by 11:00, so who is Tina Fey?

[adorno]

SNL needs an overhaul to make it funny again. Tina Fey is an evil communist.

I stopped watching SNL years ago. Coulnd't find anything funny in it since the days of Dana Carvey and his contemporaries.

Back to the topic.

Bernie needs to carry on with his '101 people who are screwing up America' by making it a regular on the internet.

He could have the current offenders list for 2005 and for 2004 and 2003 and etc. And he could categorize them, as in politiians, economists, scientists, environmentalists, etc. He could also have an honorable (dishonorable?) mentions list.

Each year's list could have some or many carryovers from prior years.

He could also have a list of the biggest screwups in the last 5 years, last 10 years, and last century, etc.

[JNL]

I love Will Ferrell, I even laughed at his anti-bush piece during the election. If they make Old School 2 wthout him it will not be the same.

[TheBigB]

I think Amy Poehler is kinda hot, though.

[adorno]

I think Amy Poehler is kinda hot, though.

Good looks gone to waste with a liberal mind.

[pcottraux]

Tina Fey is a disgusting, vile, steaming pile of fascist anti-commedy.

Back a few years ago, she became the head writer for the show. She was also appointed to do "Weekend Update," along with Jimmy Fallon. Fallon can be moderately funny at times, but the evil Tina Fey absolutely RUINED the once hilarious Weekend Update.

Weekend Update was so much funnier when Norm MacDonald was doing it. Even Colin Quinn was funnier than Tina Fey the Communist.

Tina Fey is an ultra-liberal. I mean, picture Al Franken with a scar on his chin and longer hair, and you've got Tina Fey. Thanks to her, "Weekend Update" has become nothing but a Bush-bashing segment. There isn't even a punchline to it anymore; it's just Tina Fey spouting painfully unfunny lines ridiculing George W. Bush on this or that. She hardly even gets a laugh from the audience anymore? Why is this power-hungry madwoman even employed for SNL?

[exile]

Now Dennis Miller could deliver a good weekend update.

[toothfairy86]

Remember sniglets? Rich Hall, Stuart Pankin, Danny Brean et al were hilarious.

[I see my hands]

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TW3? I do. It was hosted by that foreign guy, right? No doubt all lefty propaganda but we were to naive to know it at the time.

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[Christian4Bush]

I'll admit I haven't watched Saturday Night Live since Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman where on it. Now I'm an old man (30) I'm usually asleep by 11:00, so who is Tina Fey?

Bite your tongue, man! If 30 is old, that makes me a cager (sp) at 36.5!

Along the lines of your message, there were quite fewer options back in the infancy of SNL, late 70s to mid 80s. This is pre-internet, pre-DVD, pre-cable tv and 1000 channels. Sure, the disco scene was there, as well as the "backseat" scene. But I think that there were fewer options back then than now.