Saturday Night Live

[AZCamaroFan]

Can't take a joke?

Talk about living on different planets. Our American car companies are in trouble. They make quality vehicles, but are plagued by perceptions among some people that they have the same quality they had 30 years ago.
Excuse me if i don't think it's funny to be telling people that American cars catch fire and fall apart.

[rayhawk]

Originally Posted by MrIcky

I don't know, they've been sticking it to Biden, Pelosi, Frank and Murtha over the last few weeks pretty hard. They had a Clinton skit every week when he was in power. SNL just seems to pick on whoever's in charge- but no one will be picking on Obama for a little while. He's getting a honeymoon and a half.

Leno does a stand up monologue. It's easier to put in a joke about 1 party then a rebuttal for the other than it is to do a rebuttal sketch.

I get more upset by shows like The Daily Show. This presents itself as being almost news. I get even MORE upset by MSN, CNN, et al where they have clearly biased people presenting news that won't admit they are biased. If you want to do commentary, that's fine-say what you are and present it as such.

I'm pretty much solidly in the conservative column but SNL doesn't really bother me.

You are right about the Daily show and the others, but when you watch SNL, they poke gentle fun at the left, like little goofy jokes, but then reiterate their campaign message. When they make fun of the right side, they reinforce the stereotypes and make them look as stupid as possible, and they certainly don't emphasize any of their actual message. But that is just my opinion.

[MrIcky]

Originally Posted by rayhawk

You are right about the Daily show and the others, but when you watch SNL, they poke gentle fun at the left, like little goofy jokes, but then reiterate their campaign message. When they make fun of the right side, they reinforce the stereotypes and make them look as stupid as possible, and they certainly don't emphasize any of their actual message. But that is just my opinion.

It will be interesting to watch- they basically have to make fun of the left now. The skit they played about a month ago regarding the housing crisis where they had the people go up and testify was an extremely pointed skit. They really pounded on Murtha the other day too portraying him as basically a stupid elitest semi-racist completely out of touch with everything.

[Bumble Bee '77]

Originally Posted by aston70

I'm Gumby, dammit!

Jane you ignorant slut!

[Design1stCode2nd]

Found it very amusing myself. Not at all based in fact but amusing. The timetable for bailouts is probably spot on though.

[rgrizzard]

Originally Posted by MrIcky

It will be interesting to watch- they basically have to make fun of the left now. The skit they played about a month ago regarding the housing crisis where they had the people go up and testify was an extremely pointed skit. They really pounded on Murtha the other day too portraying him as basically a stupid elitest semi-racist completely out of touch with everything.

That sounds like Murtha to me...