Saturday, December 19, 2009
"Christmastime For The Jews"
Saturday Night Live's Robert Smigel gets together with the immortal Darlene Love to bring seasonal good tidings to members of the Tribe:
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Labels: Saturday Night Live, SNL
Monday, November 03, 2008
All Over But the Laughing...
Well, if a losing candidate, McCain sure went out in style with his "Saturday Night Live" appearance this weekend:
Best part of the skit -- Cindy McCain modeling "McCain Fine Gold" jewelry.
Oh, and apparently somebody at SNL doesn't like their cable associate Keith Olbermann, given the really vicious parodying of him that Ben Affleck engaged in:
Why will I not be surprised if Olbermann's show doesn't survive much into the Obama presidency?
Finally, this isn't comedy per se, but this bit of foot-in-mouth disease by corpulent Manhattan Rep. Jerrold Nadler is hilarious in its own way. Saying in a public forum that your presidential candidate -- likely winning presidential candidate -- lacks "political courage" is a great way for you (and your district) to become persona non grata in the next administration.
I tell ya, between Nadler, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charlie Rangel, New York had better hope Chuck Schumer has some pull in an Obama White House. Otherwise, we're screwed.
Tomorrow: My vote.
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Best part of the skit -- Cindy McCain modeling "McCain Fine Gold" jewelry.
Oh, and apparently somebody at SNL doesn't like their cable associate Keith Olbermann, given the really vicious parodying of him that Ben Affleck engaged in:
Why will I not be surprised if Olbermann's show doesn't survive much into the Obama presidency?
Finally, this isn't comedy per se, but this bit of foot-in-mouth disease by corpulent Manhattan Rep. Jerrold Nadler is hilarious in its own way. Saying in a public forum that your presidential candidate -- likely winning presidential candidate -- lacks "political courage" is a great way for you (and your district) to become persona non grata in the next administration.
I tell ya, between Nadler, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charlie Rangel, New York had better hope Chuck Schumer has some pull in an Obama White House. Otherwise, we're screwed.
Tomorrow: My vote.
Labels: John McCain, Saturday Night Live
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
NBC Bails on the Bailout Skit
See details here on the missing SNL bailout/subprime video.
UPDATE: NBC restores the video, albeit slightly edited. Go to this blog to find the original and compare and contrast (right around the 5:05 mark). Basically, the "People who should be shot" chyron has been removed, as well as "Mr. Sandler" thanking Barney Frank "and many Republicans as well for helping block congressional oversight of our corrupt activities."
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UPDATE: NBC restores the video, albeit slightly edited. Go to this blog to find the original and compare and contrast (right around the 5:05 mark). Basically, the "People who should be shot" chyron has been removed, as well as "Mr. Sandler" thanking Barney Frank "and many Republicans as well for helping block congressional oversight of our corrupt activities."
Labels: bailout, satire, Saturday Night Live
Monday, October 06, 2008
SNL "Bails" On The Democrats --UPDATED!!
ADDENDUM (10/7/08): Had to take this post down to do some fiddling with it. NBC has taken the bailout skit video off its site and its co-owned HULU video portal (see below). However, Michelle Malkin provides transcript and videoshots.
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While Saturday Night Live did offer up another great Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin skit this week (with Jason Sudekis doing a rather hilarious Joe Biden), it also included a lengthy, complex, skit on the bailout and the subprime policies that precipitated the crisis. It was not exactly flattering to congressional Democrats:
Whoever wrote this skit knows their stuff, because there are details in it that would go over the head of all but the most intense political junkie.
UPDATE: The scrubbing of this video has been pretty complete. In addition to it vanishing from NBC and Hulu, all versions of it posted to YouTube return the following message: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by NBC Universal." Interestingly, many other SNL skits from this season -- particularly the Palin/Fey ones -- are still up there on YouTube. Now, there may be legitimate legal issues involved. Two characters lampooned happen to be real-life couple Herbert and Marion Sandlers who made billions off of subprime mortgages they sold to Wachvia. A caption on the skit reads, "People who should be shot." Ooops
Anyway, Michelle Malkin takes that and adds the Soros factor to assess what may have happened.
UPDATE II: Shh...don't tell anyone, but right click on this link and "Save As" to your computer.
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While Saturday Night Live did offer up another great Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin skit this week (with Jason Sudekis doing a rather hilarious Joe Biden), it also included a lengthy, complex, skit on the bailout and the subprime policies that precipitated the crisis. It was not exactly flattering to congressional Democrats:
Whoever wrote this skit knows their stuff, because there are details in it that would go over the head of all but the most intense political junkie.
UPDATE: The scrubbing of this video has been pretty complete. In addition to it vanishing from NBC and Hulu, all versions of it posted to YouTube return the following message: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by NBC Universal." Interestingly, many other SNL skits from this season -- particularly the Palin/Fey ones -- are still up there on YouTube. Now, there may be legitimate legal issues involved. Two characters lampooned happen to be real-life couple Herbert and Marion Sandlers who made billions off of subprime mortgages they sold to Wachvia. A caption on the skit reads, "People who should be shot." Ooops
Anyway, Michelle Malkin takes that and adds the Soros factor to assess what may have happened.
UPDATE II: Shh...don't tell anyone, but right click on this link and "Save As" to your computer.
UPDATE III: Late Tuesday afternoon, NBC released the following statement: "UPON REVIEW, WE CAUGHT CERTAIN ELEMENTS IN THE SKETCH THAT DIDN'T MEET OUR STANDARDS. WE TOOK IT DOWN AND MADE SOME MINOR CHANGES AND IT WILL BE BACK ONLINE SOON."
Stay tuned.
Labels: political humor, satire, Saturday Night Live
Monday, May 12, 2008
"The Next President Of the United States..."
For those folks who thought that Saturday Night Live had completely gone into the tank for Hillary after the media appeared to go completely into the tank for Obama (after being completely in the tank for McCain in 2000)...a slightly differnt approach in this week's episode:
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Labels: Amy Poehler, comedy, Hillary Clinton, Saturday Night Live
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Pre-Debate Sh*ts & Giggles
Before the likely final primary debate (our long national nightmare is almost over), here's some light stuff.
This is a good synopsis of Saturday Night Live's return episode -- and includes a clip of the SNL send-up of last week's Clinton-Obama debate (including "Campbell Brown's" admission that media was "in the tank" for Obama) and Tina Fey's de facto endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
And here's Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscar's rejoinder to girlfriend Sarah Silverman's video of the fun she likes to have with Matt Damon.
Yeah, both YouTube clips contain easily-identifiable bleeped language.
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This is a good synopsis of Saturday Night Live's return episode -- and includes a clip of the SNL send-up of last week's Clinton-Obama debate (including "Campbell Brown's" admission that media was "in the tank" for Obama) and Tina Fey's de facto endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
And here's Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscar's rejoinder to girlfriend Sarah Silverman's video of the fun she likes to have with Matt Damon.
Yeah, both YouTube clips contain easily-identifiable bleeped language.
Labels: Jimmy Kimmel, satire, Saturday Night Live, SNL
