SNL knocks one out of the park

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I'm almost sorry I missed it on Saturday...

And what will China do if they don't like the things we have to say?

Crash our currency and send the world into an economic tailspin? Great idea.

Destroy us with their clearly more powerful military? Hmph, yeah right.

Face it, China doesn't lend us money as a show of strength, it lends us money because it knows that if we go under no one will buy their shitty products.

OMG, that was actually funny!

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Boy, am I sorry I missed that. I would have been

I'll be damned...SNL can be funny now and again.

They ought to be careful, though: they came perilously close to actually ridiculing the annointed one.

$800 Billion Dollars?

Seeing the Obama's Presidency came in as "Cleanup" for the mess Bush left for him, it would have been alot funnier if they'd done this skit during the Bush Aministration

Wow - SNL has a flashback to its awesome past!

Most of the world is buying their goods, and the Chinese have begun to use he European market as a way to "hedge their bets".

Good sketch.

But wait -- wasn't SNL all kinds of OMG TEH EVILZ less than a year ago?

^ No, they've sucked with the exception of about 4 funny videos and a half dozen sketches for the past 10 years. That's a far cry from TEH EVILZ.

^ I dunno -- some folks were getting pretty worked up about them.

Lulz!



I want to do sex to the translator girl.

Bush left Obama with a big mess to clean up

They will slowly ease themselves and others off dependence on the dollar and then dump it all together.

Will CNN fact check SNL like it did last time SNL did a skit making fun of the Messiah?

They can't, they're all on Palin's book.

Names, posts?

Jesus that was unfunny. It's a six-minute "I'm late with the rent" skit.

I fucking hate network television; anything good gets canceled and all the shit keeps getting renewed. SNL should've had a stake driven through it's heart and it's head cut off years ago.

Here you apes, this is comedy:

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I kind of like the set-up they got going in Japan...most live-action shows don't last longer than a full calendar year, which means less time to fuck up and more time getting to the point. I'd rather come back for more instead of watching a good show turn into rancid shit (hi "Gilmore Girls"! )

Evil? No. Consistently unfunny and hyper-partisan? Yes. And with a few exceptions it's been that way for years.

I like Fred Armisen, and I like Tina Fey (yes I know she isn't on the show anymore), but I don't know if Lorne Michaels is giving them some stinky weed or what, but that entire writing staff needs to be beaten with hockey sticks.

People used to give me shit when I said MAD TV was better, then it was. Now it's no more, and I'm sad.

Somebody's not getting a white House Christmas card this year!




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Not at the moment, because when I search the Red Room (or even all forums) for "SNL," I get "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms." Which is obviously wrong since that term appears in this thread. Anyway, I'm leaving for about three days, but I'll be happy to look again when I get back, if you've really forgotten all the kvetching that took place last year.

Three-letter search terms kill DB performance, so they're no longer indexed.

Yep.

There've been a number of interviews over the years, with one particularly damning by Chevy Chase, which attested that SNL has always had a decided, intentional political slant - certainly "hyper-partisan".

As for being unfunny - it went on life support when the Not Ready For Prime Time Players left, then had a few years here and there in which it looked like it might have recovered (Billy Crystal era, some of the Phil Hartman-Mike Meyers and Adam Sandler-Chris Farley eras). It should have been taken out behind the barn and shot the moment that the Butabi brothers, Mary Katherine Gallagher and the Cheerleaders became show staples.

The appeal of SNL, in it's infancy, was that it was, as a rule, hip, smart, edgy, taking risks, and funny even if you didn't share it's politics. Now it's the Fox News of left-leaning comedy, with the occasional mea culpa like this one (which wasn't really all that funny as much as surprising in it's departure as a political statement) and overall proof that people in large numbers will laugh at almost anything.

That sounds about right. My wife and I still throw Billy Crystal and Mike Meyers quotes around the house. I'm pretty sure Farley and Wil Farrell are what made us stop watching.

We've got the first three seasons of SNL on DVD. We're midway thru the 3rd season now, and already, despite some wonderful moments of nostalgia, we're seeing the downslide into unfunny and repititious. I don't think we're gonna bother buying the 4th season.

Yep. Used to be about the funny, making folks laugh, now it's about making folks applaud political statements. Clearly it's easier to pander to those with a similar political ideology than to entertain people in general.

Jon Stewart is a fine example. He never found success as a talk show host until he hitched his wagon to the democratic party. Now his humor is only peppered in as a potential defense for his content.

"Hey, you can't call me out, it's a comedy show. If you don't laugh then you just don't get it."