Desperate for teh votes

3/1/2008 11:39:37 PM

old...read about this on cnn like 7 hours ago, lol j/k(did read about it 7 hours ago but wondered what it would be)

[Edited on March 1, 2008 at 11:41 PM. Reason : i watched it]

[Edited on March 1, 2008 at 11:41 PM. Reason : .]

3/1/2008 11:41:10 PM

With all of the incredibly stupid things that Hillary and her campaign did this week I was expecting SNL to sock it to her. They started off well enough, but then devolved into a

Remember that really, really stupid thing that Hillary said during the debate?
Well we are going to spoof it by ripping it out of context to make it look like it was Obama bias from the media, not Hillary's own ineptitude that made her look bad.

1) Hillary went off about having to go first - right in the middle of the debate. Imagine what they could have done with that. What do they do? The skit sided with her, exaggerating why she looked bad because "she always went first."

2) She mis-pronounced a world leader's name. Personally I don't see a big deal with that, but they were all over Bush when he did it. What does SNL do? They try to make the viewers glaze over that one by making it look like the media was setting her up to fail all while trying to make Obama look good.

Meh. The skit wasn't worth such a lengthy reply. It was just another. "SNL likes Hillary" moment that tried to chalk up all the stupid things that Hillary has done over the course of last week as being nothing more than the media having a bias toward Obama. Ok, we get it. Please, return to the actual humor. Trying to whitewash your candidate's weekly screw-ups isn't funny political satire.

[Edited on March 2, 2008 at 10:03 AM. Reason : -]

3/2/2008 10:01:49 AM

^lighten up

3/2/2008 10:54:37 AM

Quote :

"Please, return to the actual humor."

SNL hasn't had that in years.

3/2/2008 11:07:00 AM

I didn't watch it, but I'm going to assume there is a reason they put a positive spin on it and didn't rip her too hard. Namely, She was there.

If you watch SNL you will notice they will rip someone hard one week and then have nothing but good things to say about them when they are hosting a couple weeks later.

3/2/2008 11:10:08 AM

^It was pretty much the exact same skit they did last week when Hillary wasn't there.

^^Yeah, gone are the days of Gore v. Bush political jokes. Where did those writers go?

3/2/2008 11:14:44 AM

^ you do realize that during the late 90's and Bush v. Gore, people were still saying the exact same thing about SNL, right?
Back then it was Will Ferrell, Ana Gastyer, Darrel Hammond, Molly Shannon, Tracy Morgan, Cheri Oteri, etc. All people did was complain about how much it sucked, and how it was "so much better 5 years ago" when it was Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Kevin Nelon, Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, etc. Of course, back in the mid-90s, people were complaining about much it sucked and how it was "so much better 5 years ago" when it was Phil Hartman, Dennis Miller, Al Franken, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson, etc.

you seeing a pattern here? No matter who is the cast or writers for SNL, they were always better "5 years ago"

3/2/2008 1:33:46 PM

I actually think it's much better right now. Lots of fresh blood in the cast.

3/2/2008 1:35:05 PM

SNL is very pro-Hillary for whatever reason. 2 straight weeks of it.

3/2/2008 1:44:49 PM

It is in NY

3/2/2008 2:00:37 PM

Quote :

"you do realize that during the late 90's and Bush v. Gore, people were still saying the exact same thing about SNL, right? Back then it was Will Ferrell, Ana Gastyer, Darrel Hammond, Molly Shannon, Tracy Morgan, Cheri Oteri, etc. All people did was complain about how much it sucked, and how it was "so much better 5 years ago" when it was Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Kevin Nelon, Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, etc. Of course, back in the mid-90s, people were complaining about much it sucked and how it was "so much better 5 years ago" when it was Phil Hartman, Dennis Miller, Al Franken, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson, etc. you seeing a pattern here? No matter who is the cast or writers for SNL, they were always better "5 years ago""

TROOF

3/2/2008 2:02:04 PM

the new featured player girl is going to be my wife

3/2/2008 2:06:39 PM

[Edited on March 2, 2008 at 2:12 PM. Reason : ``]

3/2/2008 2:07:43 PM

Generally speaking, every episode of SNL (pre and post strike) breaks down like this:

25% funny
50% not funny
25% funny, until it goes on a little too long and becomes not funny

3/2/2008 3:06:44 PM

I love you, Dracula.

3/2/2008 3:15:14 PM

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"SNL is very pro-Hillary for whatever reason. 2 straight weeks of it."

yeah, Tina Fey surprised me with her little "yeah Hillary is a bitch. so what?" commentary last week on SNL. It mostly surprised me because her character on 30 Rock (which as far as I can tell shares almost all the characteristics with Tina) has made a couple pro-Obama remarks, dating back to January 07.

3/2/2008 3:32:10 PM

Quote :

"you seeing a pattern here? No matter who is the cast or writers for SNL, they were always better "5 years ago""

Yes, maybe the show gets worse every year or maybe their target market is locked on the 16-25 year old demographic and people just grow out of the show.

Usually their political humor is decent though. I liked the Sandler/Farley/McDonald/Myers/Spade days myself, but I could still enjoy the political humor surrounding all the presidential elections. Now, not so much. They'd rather let you know who they think you should vote for as opposed to telling jokes.

3/2/2008 5:10:01 PM

Actually

SNL was widely accepted as being funny till the late 90's.

I mean yea, they go through periodic years of suck but nothing remotely compares to the Jimmy Fallonesque level of unfunny that makes the MAD TV skits from 99 look awesome.

3/2/2008 5:43:05 PM

can anyone provide a link for this sketch?

Youtube takes them down faster than they can come up

3/2/2008 7:43:15 PM

NBC takes them off of YouTube so that they can host them on nbc.com.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/exclusives/embednow/index.shtml

[Edited on March 2, 2008 at 8:02 PM. Reason : weird]

3/2/2008 8:02:23 PM

it's on hulu, along with years and years worth of SNL skits
http://www.hulu.com/collections/19#5955201

you might not be able to watch it if you don't have a hulu account. A TWW member can embed it with this code

<object width="510" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/DTza3hUHkDpRYtwFfY-PDQ"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/DTza3hUHkDpRYtwFfY-PDQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="510" height="295"></embed></object>

and here's the debate
<object width="510" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/d7VPB0GOuuaVvK-skqDCoQ"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/d7VPB0GOuuaVvK-skqDCoQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="510" height="295"></embed></object>

3/2/2008 8:05:18 PM

thx guys!

3/2/2008 8:39:35 PM

Quote :

"I liked the Sandler/Farley/McDonald/Myers/Spade days myself"

yeah, my favorite was also the mid 90s with those guys, plus Kevin Nealon, Phil Hartman, Tim Meadows.

Quote :

"SNL was widely accepted as being funny till the late 90's."

we think that now, but in the early and mid-90s there was still a lot of contention surrounding the cast. When they transitioned in the late 80s and early 90s from some of the older, more established comics to the younger guys listed above, there was a fall in ratings and a lot of criticism. Even so, I still think those were the best years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Saturday_Night_Live_%281990-1995%29#1993-1994_season_fallout

3/2/2008 9:53:29 PM

twice now I've read this as hilarity on SNL

but that clearly cannot be the title

3/2/2008 9:59:22 PM