Saturday Night Live Sinks To New Low

NBC | 3-14-04

[My Favorite Headache]

Did anyone just see the Saturday Night Live cartoon ragging on The Passion of the Christ? They had it as "The Passion of the Dumpty" as in Humpty Dumpty. Showing a fried egg as the last supper and going to heaven and making fun of the imgage of Christ dying on the cross.

I have never felt more insulted than I do right now as a Catholic. Plus they had Bush smear commercials in between the skits and painted Mel Gibson to be insane.

[My Favorite Headache]

To be more specific here they took a clip of the Diane Sawyer interview and interplayed it with Humpty Dumpty dying when he fell off the wall...and it was done just like the scenes from The Passion. It had a horse stepping on the egg...man..just feeling insulted right now.

[Trillian]

I have not watched SNL in years, it just wasn't funny anymore. I'm surprised it's still on..

[scan58]

I saw it. My jaw dropped and I'm still shaking my head.

[spyone]

Don't feel sad. Feel fortunate. Truly.

[My Favorite Headache]

There better be an apology coming from NBC for allowing that to air. That went beyond the means of bad taste...it was the most disrespectful thing I have seen on SNL and I am one who usually likes dark humor but this was just out of line.

[Torie]

It sounds so off the wall as it were, to be harmless. The ability to laugh at one's self is a sign of calm security and confidence. I would be amazed if SNL might to incite a jihad against believing Christians. But I did not see the scene. I don't watch SNL. It is past this old man's bedtime.

[narses]

Did anyone just see the Saturday Night Live cartoon ragging on The Passion of the Christ? They had it as "The Passion of the Dumpty" as in Humpty Dumpty. Showing a fried egg as the last supper and going to heaven and making fun of the imgage of Christ dying on the cross.

I have never felt more insulted than I do right now as a Catholic. Plus they had Bush smear commercials in between the skits and painted Mel Gibson to be insane.

[RobbyS]

Never watch the thing. But not surprising.

[AngieGOP]

You act like you are surprised. SNL has gone down hill. I stopped watching it when they started bashing President Bush on a weekly basis. It must have killed them to behave the few months after 9/11.

[ServesURight]

I heard the Bush parody commercials in the other room (unfortunately, my girlfriend's addicted to SNL and other liberal goobledygook on the boob tube). But I didn't see it, what happened?

I especially tuned out since Bennifer was hosting.

[tim7]

Did you see the skit right after the cartoon? SNL insulted the entire south....It's pretty obvious what they are trying to do....I will "never" watch SNL again.

[des]

If it was ANY other religion, there would be outrage. But Christians see a mission field instead of a battlefield.

[cspackler]

It really was over the top. I'm hard to offend, and my jaw was hanging open too. Basically ended by showing the clip from Lethal Weapon were he was screaming "You wannna see crazy"...

Anyone else notice Bennifer in really porking out?

[garbanzo]

They make fun of whoever's in power - last week they had Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton, ruminating on what he'd be like if got put on the Kerry ticket - "Imagine me with even less responsibility...I'll put the 'vice' back in 'Vice-President'..."

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

"heard the Bush parody commercials in the other room"

I may be wrong because it wasn't clear, but I think they were trying to say that no matter what Bush says in his commercials the "lefties" is never going to shut up.
or something like that.

[NewRomeTacitus]

A few weeks ago Tina Fey wouldn't shut up with the Bush insults during the "news" segment, just totally drove it into the ground and killed what humor they had built with the live audience. This occured right after a group of prominant New York liberals gave her some sort of (dis)honor for her Garafalo-like crusade against conservatism.

Comedy made you rich, Lorne, not activism.

[kenth]

I haven't watched SNL in years as they went from bad to worse to downright stinky. Their attempts at humor have gotten so lame as to make one angry on a normal basis.

They seem to think comedy is nothing more than overexaggerated characters, usually those who have been in the media recently. They will then repeat a line over and over until someone finds it funny. It's usually not the audience.

[steve86]

I am not entirely unhappy that good and evil are so easy to discern these days. Nothing subtle about the motives or orientation of those behind the skit. Sort of like the gay marriage movement, the pro-death movement, the pornography movement, etc.

Would be better if evil went away, but as long as its here we might as well know the players. Makes it a lot easier to teach the kids.

[scan58]

Yes, I agree. Robert Smigel, who brings us that segment of SNL("TV Funhouse") has done more than his share of offensive comedy. I think most of his stuff is gross. "Southpark", et al, are tame compared to Smigel.