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Proof SNL used to be relevant & funny.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:39 am
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:39 am
Or at least funnier than current day.
Rockers Explain Whitewater Scandal
See, it's funny because they make explaining the details SEEM absurd, even though it's basically exactly what happened. A sarcastic tone is all they need to make you feel like a fool if you believe the honest, factual things they say.
And Aaron Neville.
Rockers Explain Whitewater Scandal
See, it's funny because they make explaining the details SEEM absurd, even though it's basically exactly what happened. A sarcastic tone is all they need to make you feel like a fool if you believe the honest, factual things they say.
And Aaron Neville.
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Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:43 am to SouthEasternKaiju
I kept waiting for that to get funny and it never did. Their Jeopardy sketches are pretty much the only funny bit.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:46 am to DEG
The concept alone is something we'd never see from today's SNL. Mocking and questioning Bidens Ukraine connection, Burisma, Hunter's laptops, his 'artwork' sales, etc...
Or cocaine in the White House. Bare breasted trannies on the WH lawn. A flaming queer 'influencer' posing as a Press Secretary's intern. Dudes wearing dresses. Stealing women's luggage.
Not a peep though.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:30 am to SouthEasternKaiju
The 1st episode of SNL I ever saw was the debut of the The Blues Brothers.
I used to laugh my tail off at Chevy Chase stumbling and fumbling around as POTUS Ford. The Christmas episodes were especially funny with ladders and strings of lights and tinsel. (Media pretended Ford was a clumsy oaf because of 1 slight stumble on the edge of a carpet even though Ford played football @Michigan and was very athletic)
I used to laugh my tail off at Chevy Chase stumbling and fumbling around as POTUS Ford. The Christmas episodes were especially funny with ladders and strings of lights and tinsel. (Media pretended Ford was a clumsy oaf because of 1 slight stumble on the edge of a carpet even though Ford played football @Michigan and was very athletic)
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:38 am to Sidicous
Ford was an easy target. Most people didn’t take it very seriously.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:41 am to Sidicous
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I used to laugh my tail off at Chevy Chase stumbling and fumbling around as POTUS Ford.
Keep in mind that Ford made one minor stumble in public. That's it. ONE. But because Chevy Chase wanted Carter to win, he hyped up the buffoonery and clumsiness of Ford into a reoccurring bit. Just to make Ford a laughingstock in the minds of viewers and help Carter win.
Carter won.
Imagine ANY SNL player doing that for former VP Biden. Who has fallen, stumbled or wandered aimlessly at least a dozen times on camera.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:48 am to SouthEasternKaiju
I watched SNL every weekend for years back in the 70's through the late 80's, I thought it was generally funny stuff, now I watch the same shows as reruns and most of the skits are not very funny, but then again, I'm not stoned like I was in the 70's and 80's.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:52 am to SouthEasternKaiju
They did this live, one take.
Jane you ignorant slut
Jane you ignorant slut
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:54 am to SouthEasternKaiju
The original cast with John Belishi and Dan Ayroyd IMO will never be topped. They went after every sacred cow in society. We were poor undergrad and grad students with no money to go out.
Gathered at my rundown rental house with Budweiser and Colombian Gold grass, cheap snacks to watch for us a must view show. My one luxury was a 26” console Sony TV I bought broken and fixed that probably weighed 150 pounds.
George Carlin was the first guest host. Not every sketch was brilliant but most were close or exceeded what passed for normal comedy TV of the day.
Gathered at my rundown rental house with Budweiser and Colombian Gold grass, cheap snacks to watch for us a must view show. My one luxury was a 26” console Sony TV I bought broken and fixed that probably weighed 150 pounds.
George Carlin was the first guest host. Not every sketch was brilliant but most were close or exceeded what passed for normal comedy TV of the day.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 9:04 am to SouthEasternKaiju
Back when SNL had some talent
Posted on 3/30/24 at 9:31 am to SouthEasternKaiju
I never watched it but heard that one of my favorites, Jan Hooks, became a regular on the show.
I loved her on the Tush Show as The Ravishing Dahrla from the Planet Tupunga, 'Where Men are Men and Women are Women...and Never the Twain Shall Meet!'
I loved her on the Tush Show as The Ravishing Dahrla from the Planet Tupunga, 'Where Men are Men and Women are Women...and Never the Twain Shall Meet!'
Posted on 3/30/24 at 9:32 am to SouthEasternKaiju
You like that one? Here's one they did after the financial bailout, calling out those who benefitted from it.
It even features George Soros. This is 2008. Notice how Soros is treated by Pelosi, etc., people who years later told us that Soros was a right wing conspiracy theory.
The sketch never aired. It was stricken just before air time.
Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank on the Financial Bailout - SNL
It even features George Soros. This is 2008. Notice how Soros is treated by Pelosi, etc., people who years later told us that Soros was a right wing conspiracy theory.
The sketch never aired. It was stricken just before air time.
Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank on the Financial Bailout - SNL
Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:02 am to SouthEasternKaiju
stop getting your feelings hurt. If Biden wasn’t running against public enemy #1, you can rest assured he’d be the butt of all the jokes.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:09 am to POTUS2024
"when you're on your backs the meter is running. "
Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:11 am to DEG
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stop getting your feelings hurt. If Biden wasn’t running against public enemy #1, you can rest assured he’d be the butt of all the jokes.
This makes zero sense. If Joe wasn't in office, no one would give 2 flips. How is that any different than how SNL is treating him now?
You're woefully oblivious.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:21 am to SouthEasternKaiju
SNL clearly has a bias against Trump. Would you agree with that? I think that’s the premise of the post. So if you agree that that’s the premise of the post, SNL would not want to shine a light on Joe Biden‘s alleged or potential problems, for fear that it would further position him negatively against Trump. So my point is, if not for Trump I think SNL would have no problem going hard against Joe Biden. So remind me again, Who is willfully oblivious?
This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 10:23 am
Posted on 3/30/24 at 10:57 am to DEG
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If Biden wasn’t running against public enemy #1, you can rest assured he’d be the butt of all the jokes.
This movement away from mocking Democrats began in the GWB years. When Obama came in, they stayed completely away from any critique or lampooning in any way. One of the lead writers for SNL at the time even went so far as to say Obama was too perfect to be parodied.
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“It’s like being a rock climber looking up at a thousand-foot-high
face of solid obsidian, polished and oiled,” Downey said in a 2014
update of “Live From New York,” an oral history of the show. “There’s
not a single thing to grab onto — certainly not a flaw or hook that
you can caricature"
They found things to go after Ford, Carter, Reagan, HW Bush, Clinton, GW Bush, McCain, Romney and Trump. They've only lightly touched on Biden and completely avoided (because of adoration) Obama. They've lampooned Ross Perot, Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich, Janet Reno, Hillary Clinton and many others. Somehow Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, etc have been ignored similarly to Obama.
For 15-20 years now we've been in a place where prominent Democrats are untouched, while anyone in the GOP is lampooned heavily (to the point of moving away from satire, because it's increasingly rare that those bits are humorous, to mocking commentary no different than something from MSNBC).
Posted on 3/30/24 at 12:11 pm to Bard
Bard
And that’s why I quit watching years ago. Skits are not funny and they are all one sided pushing the Communist agenda, bashing any Republican or conservative that is in the news.
And that’s why I quit watching years ago. Skits are not funny and they are all one sided pushing the Communist agenda, bashing any Republican or conservative that is in the news.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 12:41 pm to DEG
SNL used to mock all fairly equally. Maybe not 50/50 but closer 60/40 favorable towards Dems.
They did a silly bit on 3 Mile Island reactor leak with Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter.
After Dukakis lost to Bush41, John Levitz did a parody which would be more accurate today than funny, sad to say.
Are you getting any of this? Or will you pretend not to & stick to your guns?
They did a silly bit on 3 Mile Island reactor leak with Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter.
After Dukakis lost to Bush41, John Levitz did a parody which would be more accurate today than funny, sad to say.
Are you getting any of this? Or will you pretend not to & stick to your guns?
This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 3/30/24 at 12:50 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
That was the best cast ever assembled by SNL.
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