Posted on 03/09/2008 3:12:16 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
Not really laugh-out-loud funny, or even laugh-out-soft funny, this weekend’s SNL opening skit spoofing Hillary’s 3am call ad is only useful insofar as it reflects the Left’s continued misgivings about both the naif and the nag.
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OMG!!!!!
SNL is dead, man! Dead.
They will hammer Hillary for a while to look fair and go back to pumping her up right before Pennsylvania.
the....what treaty? hahaha
SNL is a trainwreck these days because:
1) Creative control has been handed over to Tina Fey who is as funny as cancer.
2) Its guests are a “whose hot at this nanosecond” rather than the established funny comedians and actors who have made it. Instead of ripping on american and world politicians, it rips on celebs like your watching a episode of TMZ.
3) Instead of political satire or developed skits, its a hit and run every week.
4) Where the show used to be politicaly neutral in that it would diss everyone, every skit is run through the NBC political agenda filter. The latest diss hillary, love obama skits are a prime example. The show is like a mockery of itself and painful to watch.
"Uhm, thuuuh what treaty?!?"
They've going to miss that character come November.
>>>1) Creative control has been handed over to Tina Fey who is as funny as cancer.
Tina Fey left the show a year or two ago to do her own prime time series. She came back last week as a special host. SNL alumni do that when they are having success in the outside world.
>>>2) Its guests are a “whose hot at this nanosecond” rather than the established funny comedians and actors who have made it.
They always had “whose hot at this nanosecond” in addition to the established performers. We just don’t tend to remember them, or now they ARE established performers. I know what you mean though. I quit watching SNL with the Paris Hilton hostess edition. I took that as their official announcement they had scraped the bottom of the barrel. I haven’t tuned in since.
>>>4) Where the show used to be politicaly neutral in that it would diss everyone, every skit is run through the NBC political agenda filter. The latest diss hillary, love obama skits are a prime example. The show is like a mockery of itself and painful to watch.
Last week’s show with Tina Fey was the pinprick that deflated Obama’s balloon. They slammed the press for their “we love Obama” coverage and shamed them into asking actual questions instead of softballs. And Obama didn’t handle the questions well. If Obama loses I put a lot of the blame/credit on SNL. This week it’s Hillary on the bullseye so they can deny favoritism.
Thought this weeks Obama/Hills skit was funny....but the rest of the show seemed to tank
The past two weeks were pretty good.(w Ellen Page and Tina Fey hosting)....actually watched SNL w/out exercising the remote. Thought they may have become funny again.
Oh well
She snarled at me to turn it back to the Dallas Mavericks post-game show, then really got mad when she discovered it ended 15 minutes previous to SNL.
Al Sharpton as Sec. of State !!!
You guys are kidding right?
This skit (and last week's) is funny but tantamount to a Hillary ad/endorsement. It raises 10 times more doubts about Obama than Hillary's actual 3pm ad.
Tina Effing Fey has single handedly revised the monster's chances.
>>>You guys are kidding right?
I was taking his word for the show’s slant last night. As I stated it’s been several years since I tuned in SNL. And I gave Tina full credit for the Obama crash.
Her material is never inspiring, it's alway's attacking someone.
If a skit on SNL changes the course of American politics, we deserve to be governed by an idiocracy.
Tina Fey must be getting back at her mom for supporting President G.W. Bush.
I know I’m going to get abused, but her show 30 Rock is pretty funny.
There was an episode where her dad, Buck Henry, visits. Tina tells her friends that her dad was always supporitve of her, especially when she sued to play on the football team.
Cut to her in a football uniform, tries to kick a field goal, the other team reurns it for a TD, while she cheers “Yay for women”
It comes out in a fight with her dad that he has resented her for all these years because he actually had pride in playing for the football team.
>>>If a skit on SNL changes the course of American politics, we deserve to be governed by an idiocracy.
I hear what you are saying, but in this particular instance SNL was on the nose. For months we’ve had people like Chris Matthews in rapture over Obama declaring how listening to Obama sent a chill up his leg. Every possible softball got thrown to Obama by the press.
The SNL skit showing the Clinton/Obama debate where “Tim Russert” chose from the audience Obama Girl to sing a love song to Obama, “Russert” swaying along in time, put the spotlight on a fair issue, ie the press being in the tank for one candidate over the other.
btw this isn’t the first time. Don’t you recall the Al Gore “lockbox” skits in the 2000 election? That hurt Al. Also I think Ford was beaten in 1976 by Chevy Chase on SNL every week portraying Ford as braindead.
Actually I don't find her type of sarcastic humor funny at all.
A truly funny ‘red phone’ skit would have involved an opening shot of the phone ringing on the desk in the Oval Office. Then Bill and a ‘Monica’ appear from under the desk where Bill answers the phone.
“heh, heh, live from NY, It’s Saturday Night!”
Thanks for posting this... My husband and I had a few laughs. I rarely ever watch SNL anymore (since the late 80s, early 90s, it’s gone WAYYYY downhill and fast...).
Occasionally though there is a skit or two that show the promise of what it used to be like. This wasn’t THAT good, but funny nonetheless. :)
I actually liked Tina Fey’s skit last week “Bitch is the new Black”. Hysterical — especially the part about Women feeling empowered and will finally vote... for whoever Oprah tells them to! ;)
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