Two things, really:
SNL is funny again?: I dunno. I haven’t watched it in years. SNL follows a pattern;
- They fire the old cast and start a new cast – usually 6-8 people. It’s funny – or at least funny-ish.
- The show adds more “featured players” to help with some of the sketches. The show remains more or less funny-ish.
- The “featured players” get added to the cast, to be replaced by more “featured players”. Gradually, the show gets less funny.
- After 3-5 seasons, the cast has grown into the mid-teens, with a big group of featured players in support. And by this point, the show us just desperately un-funny.
- As the show’s opening credits tip the five minute mark, and the show becomes painfully awful, the critics start to the ritual wondering if SNL isn’t almost done for. This started in 1981.
- They fire the old cast and start the cycle over.
We’re apparently in the #1 phase – or so I’m told. I’ve been burned too many times. I’m happy to be the last one on and the first one off that particular bandwagon.
Wait – they went after who? Lorne Michaels is among the most ossified paleo-libs in showbiz. The show will treat conservatives – any conservative – with sympathy right about the time Paul Krugman writes a NYTimes editorial admitting he’s a partisan hack who’s outside his depth writing about anything but currency policy. It’ll never happen.
But bagging on another media outlet? Well, OK – there, they can have some fun:
Not saying I’m going to watch SNL anytime soon. But that was fun.
Where has this kind of humor been hiding for the last four years? SNL owned MSNBC on that one. I can speculate (without much hope admittedly) that if Obama had been subjected to the kind of ridicule in the 2008 campaign reserved usually for white conservatives, the name of the incumbent president would either be McCain or Clinton.
Yeah that was – to use a word I read above – funny-ish. Watching the real thing after the debate was much better. The post debate excuses for the President (altitude, he’s too smart, Rmoney is “teh” liar) kept the mirth going a little longer. Leading Liberal Bill Maher claimed Obama bought weed with the million Maher gave him and smoked it all prior to the debate.
In the past Maher has claimed: Obama should “go upside Republican heads”; and he should stop acting like entertainer Wayne Brady (a “non-aggressive” black man); and now that he smoked a bunch of weed prior to an important event. Yet even after these bigoted if not racist stereotypes (Obama is a man: whose mother was a white person from Kansas and whose father was a black person from Kenya; who was raised in Indonesia and Hawaii; who attended elite private schools; and was raised primarily by people of pallor) Maher has never been more popular among the Liberals who watch and attend his shows and among the “thoughtful class” of Liberal talking heads who appear on the show. He must make them comfortable with their prejudice(s).
I found myself flipping between Fox & MSNBC after the debate, Maddow, Mathews, Sharpton, et.al. were way funnier to watch than the SNL take.
Dear Angry Clown:
When you’ve lost SNL……
Ahbwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
MNBubba