Posted on 04/14/2010 9:22:44 AM PDT by Nachum
Tina Fey is quickly becoming a one-trick pony. Despite her prolific and varied portfolio as a film and television actress, screenwriter and producer, it's clear that her favorite role is playing the mean girl.
Over the weekend, she hosted "Saturday Night Live" - and mostly got attention for reprising her role as Sarah Palin in a scathing sketch that managed to mock Palin simultaneously as a self-obsessed reality star, an unsophisticated hick, a fanatical ideologue and a bad mother. Two years after the last presidential campaign, going after Palin again seems more than meanspirited - it's also a little lazy for such a gifted writer and cultural satirist as Fey.
But what was infinitely more interesting than yet another Palin rendition was the endless barrage of swipes Fey took at other women recently in the news, and for all the wrong reasons.
In one sketch, she played one of Tiger Woods' sex-obsessed mistresses. And during the faux news show "Weekend Update," she railed against Michelle (Bombshell) McGee, the alleged mistress of bad boy Jesse James, Sandra Bullock's wayward husband.
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They do this on purpose and they invest a lot of money into it if the need to, bringing Tina Fey back cannot be cheap.
CNN) — Chevy Chase didn’t look like Gerald Ford and didn’t sound like Gerald Ford. But in the mid-1970s, when “Saturday Night Live” first went on the air, Chase — then a writer and cast member of the show — made his impression of the president, rife with pratfalls and slapstick, the talk of the country.
He also made the president a butt of jokes, which was intentional, Chase told CNN in an interview.
“[Ford] was a sweet man, a terrific man — [we] became good friends after, but ... he just tripped over things a lot,” he said. “It’s not that I can imitate him so much that I can do a lot of physical comedy and I just made it, I just went after him. And ... obviously my leanings were Democratic and I wanted [Jimmy] Carter in and I wanted [Ford] out, and I figured look, we’re reaching millions of people every weekend, why not do it.”
Over the years, “Saturday Night Live’s” political satires have become a mainstay of the show, sometimes to startling effect.
Al Franken — now the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota — and his then writing partner, Tom Davis, wrote a wicked takeoff of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s book, “The Final Days,” which included Dan Aykroyd as a bitter Richard Nixon and John Belushi as a toadying Henry Kissinger. In the mid-’80s, a sketch starring Phil Hartman as Ronald Reagan showed the president, often lampooned as forgetful, with a razor-sharp command of the Iran-Contra situation, cutting deals in Arabic and barking orders at his staff.
More recently, Dana Carvey’s malaprop-laden impression of George H.W. Bush, Hartman’s puppy-dog Bill Clinton, Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush and Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin have embedded themselves in the culture.
Though Chase believes the show leans left, and Fey’s Palin is an attempt to hurt the Republicans, Marc Liepis, NBC Universal senior director of late night publicity, had no comment.
CNN: You mean to tell me in the back of your mind you were thinking, hey I want Carter ...
Chase: Oh, yeah.
CNN: And I’m going to make him look bad.
Chase: Oh yeah. What do you think they’re doing now, you think they’re just doing this because Sarah’s funny? No, I think that the show is very much more Democratic and liberal-oriented, that they are obviously more for Barack Obama. [In the ‘70s], out of the Nixon era, and it was not unlikely that I might go that direction.
CNN: I talked to one political pundit who said, I think Chevy Chase cost Ford the presidency.
Chase: When you have that kind of a venue and power where you can reach so many millions of people and you’ve become a show that people watch, you know, you can affect a lot of people, and humor does it beautifully, because humor is perspective and has a way of making judgment calls. ... So I think there was no question that it had major effect and in fact, in speaking with his family and then later him, and even reading some of his books ... he felt so, too.
After the 20th Century, you have to be an absolute ignorant fool to think socialism/fascism is the way to improve things.
I don’t disagree that they are fellow travelers, but they are fellow travelers on the dark ignorant side.
I loved it, it made me like Reagan even more.
Why would I want to insult her?
She’s getting pretty old and haggard looking too. Like five miles of bad road.
She never was much of a looker anyway.
Becasue she is a mean, hateful, unscrupulous, lying, disengenuous leftist doosh.
That's why!
she has never made me laugh. funny works, no matter who you are impersonating. but funny she ain’t. I can’t watch that 3Rock show on Thursdays for that very reason. I don’t find it funny.
I believe they know socialism is a horrible deal for most people, but they believe they'll wind up in the protected class themselves, so it's all good.
I don't buy the hollow altruistic language of socialists. I think most of them know it's B.S.
I guess I'm just more cynical than you. :-)
Well, if you’re that kind of person that likes doing that stuff, go ahead and take my place. I have no desire to insult her.
What an indictment, if they actually do understand it and still want to see it leveled in the public. That in and of itself would exhibit a lot of ignorance.
Thanks for the comments.
If each of the tea partiers vote against the RATS and gets one other person to do likewise, the RATS will be an extinct communist party., An ECP if you will.
The left sells socialism by inflaming the class jealousy. You know that old saying those who can do, those who can’t teach, well, they don’t just teach, they work for the government or as entertainers, or other low talent jobs that require little intelligence, skill, or imagination. Many of these no-account people have long thought that they deserve to have what the wealthy private sector business people have, not just money, but self respect. The only way they can get it is to take down those who have it, like the middle school bully, picking on the computer nerd, who gets straight “A”s in class.
Yes, it does.
I think it really tweaked the Soviet protected class when they realized that millions of middle-class Americans lived a higher lifestyle than the upper-crust of the USSR did!
Capitalism works, still.
Thanks to you too.
One of my favorite SNL sketches is the Jimmy Carter 3-mile island nuke bit. Very funny. Dan Akroyd played a very funny Jimmy Carter.
Well put.
Those who can't figure out how to lift themselves up can only conceive of tearing others down.
One trick prostitute............................
Aren’t jokes supposed to
A) mimic the truth?
B) be funny?
This one fell short on both counts.
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