'Saturday Night Live' Smears Kellyanne (Who Watches SNL?)

The New York Times was correct in 2011 when it proclaimed that "Saturday Night Live" has no equal "when it comes to stamping a politician in the public consciousness." Republican politicians like former Gov. Sarah Palin were described as incapable of escaping the "SNL" treatment, and voters actually thought Palin uttered Tina Fey's satirical line "I can see Russia from my house."

And yet, the NBC show couldn't seem to locate a comedic angle on President Barack Obama, as the Times noted after his third year in office. He came into the White House as his impersonator Fred Armisen lamely spoke over a cool jazz beat: "I take my kids to school,/ I don't lose my temper,/ It's my only rule/ I keep it cool."

In 2012, "SNL" writer Jim Downey was still declaring Obama mockery impossible. He said: "Obama doesn't give you much to grab onto. He's like a smooth rock face of perfect obsidian with no ledges or toeholds, and your job is to scale 200 feet of it."

"SNL" boss Lorne Michaels routinely -- and ridiculously -- claims the show is nonpartisan. This came even after two cast members quite seriously sang the '60s ballad "To Sir, With Love" to a picture of Obama the night after Trump's inauguration. After finishing the song, they broke out a mug reading "World's Greatest President."

Two weeks later, "SNL" lurched in the opposite direction, this time with a dark and very unfunny portrayal of Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway as the psychopathic Glenn Close character in "Fatal Attraction." Her love interest in the skit is CNN's Jake Tapper. The fake Conway writhed and moaned in a sexual way about forcing Tapper to put her on television. He surrenders after she holds a knife to his throat, but then she accidentally falls out the window to her death, only to peel herself off the sidewalk and pull herself together like a horror movie monster as she says grotesquely: "I only have three lives left. See you on the news!"

Reaction wasn't positive. "Prediction: the White House will use that sexist skit to dismiss all criticisms of Conway and lying more broadly," tweeted liberal Daily Beast writer Olivia Nuzzi. She also said: "Casting Kellyanne Conway as Glenn Close was a miscalculation on SNL's part. Will be interpreted as unfair and mean to a wife and mother."

Other liberals agreed. NBC's own Andrea Mitchell said it was "Not Right." The New York Times found that the skit was unfocused with a "queasy edge of sexism."

On Monday morning, ABC brought on leftist Muslim comedian Dean Obeidallah to praise the skit as empowering for liberals. He said: "I think it was actually really well done, and I think in today's day and age, comedy is cathartic. We need to be laughing at the Trump administration. For those people who don't like the Trump administration, it's a release and makes you feel good. I think it's empowering."

ABC reporter Jonathan Karl disagreed. "I don't think it was funny. It seemed to be incredibly mean-spirited. This is somebody who has young children," he said. "What makes SNL so funny is when they cut a little bit towards the truth. That was just not an accurate portrayal of Conway. I mean, she is somebody who actually is pushed to do more television by the president. ... She has many more requests to go on television than those that she actually accepts. "

For months now, the media have thrown every kind of screwball at Conway, but she keeps hitting everything out of the park. They loathe her, and now they're trying to ruin her.

Alec Baldwin and "SNL" have been poking fun at Trump mercilessly for months. Hard-hitting? Of course. Funny? You better believe it. Trump's supporters -- and President Trump himself -- should laugh. But what is being done to Kellyanne Conway is no laughing matter. "SNL" needs to cut it out.

” “School House Rock” parody with Obama shoving “Immigration Bill” out of the way with his pal “Executive Order”.”

LOL!!! Good sketch.

Yes, Kate is a lez, she had dinner with Shillery the other day (I wonder why....). Apparently they broke up but I googled her last lover, Marla Mindelle, also hot, maybe hotter. I’m never gonna meet let alone sleep with her anyway so I don’t know why it should bother me but it like makes me sad on behalf of mankind.

I’m somewhat incredulous on good-looking/feminine lesbians, I suspect most of them are bisexual or possibly scared of men due to childhood abuse. The true dykes all seem to be mannish in action and appearance, congenital defect.

“John Goodman played Linda Tripp “

Yeah I remember that, hilarious! The little girl who played Perot on “All That” was also good.

You should watch the Shamu as Spicer skits (she did a 2nd that wasn’t as well received but I thought it was funny).

I actually like Baldwin as as actor but his Trump doesn’t ring true to me, South Park has Mr. Garrsion doing the lip thing too, I’ve never noticed it in Trump. And maybe I’m wrong but it just seems more mean-spirited than Ferrell’s Bush, which yes I loved and also Frank Caliendo’s on Mad TV (I heard it’s back, I wonder if it’s any good, they have some old Trump skits on you tube) was pretty good, never saw Tim Bottoms’. Mocking Bush seemed to be just that, doing it for fun just like you’d mock any President, their mocking of Trump just seems like a partisan attack, it never felt like that to me under Bush.

Darrell Hammond’s Clinton was the creme de la creme for me, his Gore was good too.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-segment-—bill-clinton/n10878?snl=1

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-segment-—bill-clinton/n10971?snl=1

I remember a little of Dana Carvey as Pappy Bush (probably reprisals from the Dubya years), he was good. Acroyd did Carter? Wasn’t he Reagan too? Seems like a bad choice. I guess they weren’t big on political parody early on?

I don’t find the Trump parodies funny in the least. They’re hateful and shows the visceral fear they (the left) has for him and that he’s actually going to turn the country around.

I remember Dan Aykroyd’s Carter (he also did Nixon), which was ridiculous in its near-worship of him. They made Carter “hip” and in one skit, Carter was talking to a drug addict on a phone-in show (during the ‘76 campaign) and instructing him on how to carefully come down from a scary, acid-induced high (telling him to listen to some Allman Brothers).

You wonder how many morons out in America saw this and thought Carter was so “cool” that they’d vote for him over Chevy Chase’s bumbling Ford. I know Ford met Chase later on and was on good terms with him, but had I been Ford, I’d have belted him in the gut for the mean-spirited damage he caused (and Chase wasn’t even attempting to impersonate Ford, he was just being Chevy Chase falling down and crashing all over the place. It was just really nasty, vicious stuff. Of course, karma being what it is, those falls Chase took damaged his health and he became a prescription drug addict because of the pain, and probably played no small part in his career crash by the early ‘90s after being a top film star).

I think Phil Hartman did the definitive Clinton. Sadly, his murder paved the way for Darrell Hammond, who did a good job as well (although both were respectful portrayals of someone who didn’t deserve it).

Outside of SNL, you had Key & Peele doing Zero on their show, but it was so bland and handled-with-kid-gloves that it was unfunny and boring. Key played Zero and Peele played the “angry” Zero as “Luther”, his alter ego. Makes you wonder if Dave Chappelle still had his show what he would’ve done, perhaps nothing.

-SNL
-Jon Stewart/who or whatever that show is called now/hosted by.
-Bill Maher
-The View and it’s ilk
-”News” broadcasts
-Etc.

Are ALL 100% outside any boundaries of reality. If Goebbels were still around, he’d be impressed at how effective these misinformed thespians are in spreading propaganda.

But since we live in an “Idiocracy” world, these shows DO shape the opinions of the f-tards, who are “life” forms that shouldn’t be allowed to toast bread, let alone, reproduce, vote or drive an automobile.

Personal rant:
Back to the shows for a moment, especially “SNL” which has been around for decades. That show is the product of “Baby Boomers” seditionists and their “Greatest Generation” benefactors. Count me in as being beyond f***ing sick of hearing about BOTH of the age groups that have led to the “society” we have today. The “Baby Boomers” wouldn’t have been allowed to run amok without mommy & daddy letting them...

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