Posted on 05/02/2017 12:47:53 PM PDT by drewh
More than a decade ago, actress Allison Janney played White House press secretary C.J. Cregg on the NBC drama The West Wing. So it's not shocking that Samantha Bee borrowed that character for the opening skit of her "Not the Correspondents' Dinner" special on TBS on Saturday night. In this skit, Janney ripped into a cartoonish right-wing media full of urine-drinkers, teenage Breitbart staffers, and redneck uncle bloggers.
JANNEY: Yes? You're 18 in your father's suit, obviously from Breitbart.
TEENAGER: Yeah. Doesn't having a female host for this dinner demonstrate a clear anti-white male bias? [Fist-bumps another white guy.]
JANNEY: Absolutely not. Sam is not at all biased against white men. She just can't tell you apart and thinks you all know each other. Yes?
ED BAUER, redneck in a cap: Yes. Hi, Ed Bauer, the Bold-Faced Red Fire Email Alert for America's Uncles. Is tonight's episode going to be like every episode of Full Frontal where Sam just talks about vaginas for a half hour?
JANNEY: No, buttercup. Tonight she'll be talking about them for a full hour. I'll take a Skype question because I guess that's a thing now. Yes, Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band member.
SKYPE QUESTIONER: Yes, speaking as a fringe nut-job survivalist who unaccountably drinks his own urine.
JANNEY: What's your question?
SKYPE QUESTIONER: No question. [Drinks urine.]
JANNEY: Is anyone here a reporter?
Then she takes a question from a woman who says she’s from U.S. News, and Janney says “I know you’re from Russia Today.” They have a chat in Russian, with subtitles:
RUSSIA TODAY: If I could obtain for Samantha Bee the video of urinating prostitutes, what would she pay?
JANNEY: A lot.
Later in the show, Bee delighted in the idea of getting photos or video of Trump with the alleged urinating prostitutes.
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Then came the segment that sounds like a classic Aaron Sorkin liberal sermon, complete with music and applause:
JANNEY: Last question. Opus Dei. [That's a Catholic-mocking gibe, a la The DaVinci Code.]
REPORTER IN A HOOD: Lloyd Merkin, Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Why hasn't Samantha Bee commented on the allegations that she's a witch?
JANNEY: Okay. You know what? You people are monsters. Yes, we have freedom of speech and of the press in this country and that is a beautiful thing. [Applause] So if a morally bankrupt gang of racist bloggers, anarchists, dominionist radio hosts and rancid women haters want to call themselves journalists, no one can stop you. But you are part of the reason no one trusts the real press.
These journalists work day and night to find the truth, write it down or tell it to a camera. And sometimes they [bleep] it up but when they do, they apologize -- most of the time. They chase down stories, even when stories put them in danger, and their phone batteries die because of all the Pepes tweeting abuse at them and you pretend to be them, ruining their reputation, at least among people too stupid to tell the difference.
You are the dregs of a free society, we have to let you exist but we do not have to listen to you. So Samantha Bee will be spending the evening with real reporters, and by the way, to answer your question, yes, of course she's a witch! We're all witches! [Destroys “Merkin” with red rays coming out of her eyeballs.]
Bee just adores the idea that she is a witch. She also proclaimed herself a witch in her TBS debut....to a room of stupid sexist reporters. (How Jenny One-Note.) She also loves smearing all conservative reporters as "the dregs of a free society," and the opposite of "real reporters." Like many liberals, for Bee "real reporters" translates into "liberal activists."
i watch BBT reruns on demand on my roku on sling....they pimp this shrieking lib hag non-stop.
keeps me scrambling for the mute button, for sure...
she is so horrible she must know someone or have done something for someone...
her show has already been moved once in search of an audience.
White liberal elites are confident black and brown underclasses, transformed illegals, criminals and disgruntled women can prop up their dreams of power.
Samantha Bee doesn’t really know or care but she does know who she hates...
Time will tell if Samantha and other elites giving the finger to middle-class working families and traditional Americans was brilliant ... or tacky and crass beyond words.
Yea her commercials SUCK.
Leftists lap it up though...
“Dregs of a free society”?
Ironic isn’t it, that if the left wingers like her had their way, there would be no “free society”
This sounds PROFOUNDLY unfunny. (drinks urine)
How this chick has any kind of ratings is anybody’s guess.
Who? Never heard of it...
No, I’m not.
The enemedia is trying to make her relevant to a different target audience than FReepers; she (like just about everyone on TV) is a propaganda tool aimed at a specific demographic (though I have no idea which in her case, as I’ve never seen her on any show I’d watch).
From wikipedia: In 2017, Time named Bee one of the 100 most influential people in the world on their annual Time 100 list.
LOVE IT!!!
Now, THIS is funny!
“Beauty, eh?”
Never heard of it.
Really? Ok, it’s a must watch - you really need to see it!
I don’t think I’ve watched it in 20 years. It helps if you’ve seen SCTV, though, since like SNL has done with its skits, they started out there and you get a better feel for the characters. Too bad we never got a full-length version of “Celebrity Blow-Up” or “Days Of The Week” (which for the latter they did a really pretty soap opera piano piece for the credits). I miss SCTV.
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