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UPDATE!! No SNL For Barack Obama, But Tina Fey Made Her Sarah Palin Debut Saturday!!
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Don't believe those press reports telling you Barack Obama is appearing on tonight's SNL; he's busy dealing with Hurricane Ike.
The good news, according to network insider "The Phantom of 8H," is Tina Fey is indeed back at SNL tonight to play Sarah Palin.
11:30 p.m. Saturday. NBC.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TINA FEY GUEST STARS ON “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” SEASON PREMIERE AS REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GOV. SARAH PALIN
OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST SWIMMING PHENOM MICHAEL PHELPS HOSTS
New York, NY – September 13, 2008 – NBC's "Saturday Night Live" kicked off its 34th season with an eagerly anticipated political opening – featuring the reunion of the Weekend Update team of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, playing Sen. Hillary Clinton and Republican VP candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, respectively.
The sketch, which was billed as "a non-partisan message" from the two female politicians was an "address on the ugly role that sexism is playing in the campaign." The full transcript of the sketch will run below.
In addition to the Palin-Clinton sketch, record-breaking gold medalist Michael Phelps jumped into the comedy deep end, kicked off his acting debut performing in eight sketches and a digital short, with a monologue that was cheered on by his adoring mother Debbie (as played by Poehler...who was joined by his real mother) and focused on his many endorsement opportunities (for which he was coached by award-winning actor/commercial pitchman William Shatner, in a surprise cameo).
Phelps also essayed a wide variety of roles – from the familiar, playing a swimmer and himself as a talk show guest to Charles Barkley (Kenan Thompson) and diet pitchman (for his well-documented hyper-caloric training diet), to playing an aggressively awkward teenager opposite Kristen Wiig, as well as a woefully misinformed home school student competing in a high school quiz bowl.
The transcript of the Palin-Clinton sketch is below:
FEY AS PALIN: "Good evening, my fellow Americans. I was so excited when I was told Senator Clinton and I would be addressing you tonight."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And I was told I would be addressing you alone."
FEY AS PALIN: "Now I know it must be a little bit strange for all of you to see the two of us together. What with me being John McCain's running mate."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And me being a fervent supporter of Senator Barack Obama -- as evidenced by this button."
FEY AS PALIN: "But tonight we are crossing party lines to address the now very ugly role that sexism is playing in the campaign."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "An issue which I am frankly surprised to hear people suddenly care about."
FEY AS PALIN: "You know, Hillary and I don't agree on everything..."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: (OVERLAPPING) "Anything. I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy."
FEY AS PALIN: "And I can see Russia from my house."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "I believe global warming is caused by man."
FEY AS PALIN: "And I believe it's just God hugging us closer."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "I don't agree with the Bush Doctrine."
FEY AS PALIN: "I don't know what that is."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "But Sarah, one thing we can agree on is that sexism can never be allowed to permeate an American election."
FEY AS PALIN: "So please, stop photoshopping my head on sexy bikini pictures."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And stop saying I have cankles."
FEY AS PALIN: "Don't refer to me as a 'MILF.'"
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And don't refer to me as a 'FLURJ.' I Googled what it stands for and I do not like it."
FEY AS PALIN: "So we ask reporters and commentators, stop using words that diminish us, like 'pretty,' 'attractive,' 'beautiful.'"
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "'Harpy,' 'shrew' and 'boner shrinker.'"
FEY AS PALIN: "While our politics may differ, my friend and I are both very tough ladies. You know it reminds me of a joke we tell in Alaska..."What's the difference...
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Lipstick."
FEY AS PALIN: "...between a hockey mom..."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Lipstick."
FEY AS PALIN: "...and a pitbull?"
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Lipstick."
FEY AS PALIN(AFTER A BEAT): "Lipstick. Just look at how far we've come. Hillary Clinton, who came so close to the White House. And me, Sarah Palin, who is even closer. Can you believe it, Hillary?"
POEHLER AS CLINTON: (AFTER A PAUSE)"I can not."
FEY AS PALIN: "It's truly amazing and I think women everywhere can agree, that no matter your politics, it's time for a woman to make it to the White House."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "No. Mine! It's supposed to be mine! I need to say something. I didn't want a woman to be President. I wanted to be President and I just happen to be a woman. And I don't want to hear you compare your road to the White House to my road to the White House. I scratched and clawed through mud and barbed wire and you just glided in on a dog sled wearing your pageant sash and your Tina Fey glasses."
FEY AS PALIN:
"What an amazing time we live in. To think that just two years ago, I was a small town mayor of Alaska's crystal meth capitol. And now I am just one heartbeat away from being President of the United States. It just goes to show that anyone can be President."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Anyone."
FEY AS PALIN: "All you have to do is want it."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: (LAUGHS) "Yeah, you know, Sarah, looking back, if I could change one thing, I should have wanted it more." (RIPS OFF PIECE OF PODIUM)
FEY AS PALIN: "So in the next six weeks, I invite the media to be vigilant for sexist behavior."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Although it is never sexist to question female politicians credentials. Please ask this one about dinosaurs. So I invite the media to grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine."
FEY AS PALIN: And as we say in Alaska...
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "We say it everywhere..."
FEY/POEHLER: "Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!!!
“Saturday Night Live” is from SNL Studios in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels. Steve Higgins produces. Marci Klein and Mike Shoemaker are producers. Seth Meyers is head writer. Don Roy King directs.
ORIGINAL POST:
Fey & Rudolph To Play Palin & Obama?? Meyers To Anchor Solo?? Belushi-Looking Guy Joins SNL Cast?? Herc Chats Up Lorne Michaels!!
“Saturday Night Live” mastermind Lorne Michaels joined Olympic superstar Michael Phelps, who will be hosting this weekend’s season opener, on a Thursday conference call for the press. Some of what we learned:
* There are “ongoing” discussions with Tina Fey to play Sarah Palin on the show, though newish cast member Casey Wilson read the Palin part in a sketch at Wednesday’s read-through.
* Michaels hopes to lure Maya Rudolph back to play Michelle Obama.
* New York improv vet Bobby Moynihan, who looks like he might compete with Artie Lange and Horatio Sanz in Hollywood auditions for the “Belushi” roles, joins the cast with Saturday’s episode.
* An unnamed female cast member will be added “probably later in the fall” to replace departing Amy Poehler (who has a baby due next month and will subsequently star in her new NBC sitcom), said Michaels.
* Despite her expectant nature, Amy Poehler may be seen playing Phelps’ mom this Saturday.
* Could Seth Meyers host Update solo subsequent to Poehler’s departure? “It’s certainly one of the possibilities,” said Michaels. “I think Seth’s been brilliant on Update.”
* Has Michaels considered who might be paired with Meyers on Update? “I think once we roll into October, I’ll deal realistically with Amy leaving and I’ll begin to think about it.”
* Though the NBC primetime specials planned for October are being billed as “SNL Weekend Update Thursday,” those specials are likely to feature non-Update sketch components. “I think there’ll be something,” said Michaels. “I think if we’re directly following a debate, I think we’ll do the debate. That kind of thing. I think whatever is the best half-hour we can put on, we’ll put on. We won’t save something for Saturday that we think might play better on Thursday.”
* A Phelps-centric Aquaman sketch survived Wednesday's read-through and remains in contention for Saturday’s show.
* Phelps said his favorite movie is “Tommy Boy” and that he’s a fan of Adam Sandler, Chris Farley and Farley’s Matt Foley “van down by the side of the river” sketches.
* Michaels expects more complete-season SNL DVD sets could be issued subsequent to the release of the fifth season (Bill Murray’s last), but doesn’t yet know if the next set would feature the widely-reviled 1980-1981 season overseen by Jean Doumanian. “It only took 25 or 30 years to get the first five years out. I don’t know where they’re going to pick it up after that,” said Michaels. “I don’t know if they’ll start in the ‘80s or ‘90s or relatively recently.”
Bobby Moynihan might be the guy on the bottom:
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TINA FEY GUEST STARS ON “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” SEASON PREMIERE AS REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GOV. SARAH PALIN
OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST SWIMMING PHENOM MICHAEL PHELPS HOSTS
New York, NY – September 13, 2008 – NBC's "Saturday Night Live" kicked off its 34th season with an eagerly anticipated political opening – featuring the reunion of the Weekend Update team of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, playing Sen. Hillary Clinton and Republican VP candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, respectively.
The sketch, which was billed as "a non-partisan message" from the two female politicians was an "address on the ugly role that sexism is playing in the campaign." The full transcript of the sketch will run below.
In addition to the Palin-Clinton sketch, record-breaking gold medalist Michael Phelps jumped into the comedy deep end, kicked off his acting debut performing in eight sketches and a digital short, with a monologue that was cheered on by his adoring mother Debbie (as played by Poehler...who was joined by his real mother) and focused on his many endorsement opportunities (for which he was coached by award-winning actor/commercial pitchman William Shatner, in a surprise cameo).
Phelps also essayed a wide variety of roles – from the familiar, playing a swimmer and himself as a talk show guest to Charles Barkley (Kenan Thompson) and diet pitchman (for his well-documented hyper-caloric training diet), to playing an aggressively awkward teenager opposite Kristen Wiig, as well as a woefully misinformed home school student competing in a high school quiz bowl.
The transcript of the Palin-Clinton sketch is below:
FEY AS PALIN: "Good evening, my fellow Americans. I was so excited when I was told Senator Clinton and I would be addressing you tonight."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And I was told I would be addressing you alone."
FEY AS PALIN: "Now I know it must be a little bit strange for all of you to see the two of us together. What with me being John McCain's running mate."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And me being a fervent supporter of Senator Barack Obama -- as evidenced by this button."
FEY AS PALIN: "But tonight we are crossing party lines to address the now very ugly role that sexism is playing in the campaign."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "An issue which I am frankly surprised to hear people suddenly care about."
FEY AS PALIN: "You know, Hillary and I don't agree on everything..."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: (OVERLAPPING) "Anything. I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy."
FEY AS PALIN: "And I can see Russia from my house."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "I believe global warming is caused by man."
FEY AS PALIN: "And I believe it's just God hugging us closer."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "I don't agree with the Bush Doctrine."
FEY AS PALIN: "I don't know what that is."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "But Sarah, one thing we can agree on is that sexism can never be allowed to permeate an American election."
FEY AS PALIN: "So please, stop photoshopping my head on sexy bikini pictures."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And stop saying I have cankles."
FEY AS PALIN: "Don't refer to me as a 'MILF.'"
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And don't refer to me as a 'FLURJ.' I Googled what it stands for and I do not like it."
FEY AS PALIN: "So we ask reporters and commentators, stop using words that diminish us, like 'pretty,' 'attractive,' 'beautiful.'"
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "'Harpy,' 'shrew' and 'boner shrinker.'"
FEY AS PALIN: "While our politics may differ, my friend and I are both very tough ladies. You know it reminds me of a joke we tell in Alaska..."What's the difference...
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Lipstick."
FEY AS PALIN: "...between a hockey mom..."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Lipstick."
FEY AS PALIN: "...and a pitbull?"
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Lipstick."
FEY AS PALIN(AFTER A BEAT): "Lipstick. Just look at how far we've come. Hillary Clinton, who came so close to the White House. And me, Sarah Palin, who is even closer. Can you believe it, Hillary?"
POEHLER AS CLINTON: (AFTER A PAUSE)"I can not."
FEY AS PALIN: "It's truly amazing and I think women everywhere can agree, that no matter your politics, it's time for a woman to make it to the White House."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "No. Mine! It's supposed to be mine! I need to say something. I didn't want a woman to be President. I wanted to be President and I just happen to be a woman. And I don't want to hear you compare your road to the White House to my road to the White House. I scratched and clawed through mud and barbed wire and you just glided in on a dog sled wearing your pageant sash and your Tina Fey glasses."
FEY AS PALIN:
"What an amazing time we live in. To think that just two years ago, I was a small town mayor of Alaska's crystal meth capitol. And now I am just one heartbeat away from being President of the United States. It just goes to show that anyone can be President."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Anyone."
FEY AS PALIN: "All you have to do is want it."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: (LAUGHS) "Yeah, you know, Sarah, looking back, if I could change one thing, I should have wanted it more." (RIPS OFF PIECE OF PODIUM)
FEY AS PALIN: "So in the next six weeks, I invite the media to be vigilant for sexist behavior."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "Although it is never sexist to question female politicians credentials. Please ask this one about dinosaurs. So I invite the media to grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine."
FEY AS PALIN: And as we say in Alaska...
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "We say it everywhere..."
FEY/POEHLER: "Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!!!
“Saturday Night Live” is from SNL Studios in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels. Steve Higgins produces. Marci Klein and Mike Shoemaker are producers. Seth Meyers is head writer. Don Roy King directs.
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i thought they were settled on that one guy who did him last season?
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i think snl is a pretty cool guy. eh makes me laugh and doesn't afraid of anything.
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I sometimes forget that it's still on the air.
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More people are watching SNL this year than anything on any channel in Saturday primetime.
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herc clearly states maya rudolph would be playing MICHELLE obama.
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"Does anyone watch SNL anymore?"
"Is this show still on?"
"SNL hasn't been good since [insert person here] left.""[insert female cast member here] isn't funny at all."
if you can criticize the show legitimately without using any of these fucking idiotic overused phrased that I have been reading on AICN for 5 fucking years, then you may criticize away. -
With the election coming up and the start of a new presidential administration in January the writers should have no end of material. Fey as Palin would rock!
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Does anyone read comments that say "Does anyone watch SNL anymore?" I swear it's posted at least 800 times per SNL post. We get it. You don't think it's funny.
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before I even got my shit posted, someone used a verbatim line from it!nothing is as predictable as a moron...
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Bobby Moynahan was in this hilarious internet video about frat guys trying to rape other frat guys. Check it out and realize what an asset he'll be to the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zvTRQr7ns8
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But I'm curious as to what angle they're going to take their Sarah Palin over the next four years.
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What is up with that? Apparently, even fucking Lorne doesn't know!
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The great female cast of the past few years is moving on to bigger and better things I guess. Still, Michaels has been doing a great job recruiting talent. Something tells me where going to miss the Palin jokes after November.
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The complete-series sets were held up due to "clearance issues," usually related to getting the rights to the music in the episodes.
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nah, that's just how he keeps his mind limber.
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after that Palin will be a footnote in history and they won't need anybody to play her.
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Seriously.
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FAIL!!! see my above post re: your idiocy.
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I watch SNL every Saturday, and there tends to be 2-3 decent sketches each show. Even with the election, I don't see how they are going to come up with enough quality material for a second night, given they are still struggling to do so for their main timeslot.
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I mean, besides Herc? I think they'd do much better with deluxe best of sets from here on out.
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Everyone please make sure your talkbacks conform to his rules or he'll post snarky comments and verbally thrash you!
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I'm tired of her deservedly "cricket-inducing" Weekend Update jokes. And I'm tired of her same, low-brow "loud funny-face-making" characters who say "y'all" a lot.
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SNL hasn't been good since the pilot episode with George Carlin...
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Eddie Murphy Fans, Christopher Guest fans, Martin short fans, Phil Hartman fans, Mike Myers fans, Tom Hanks fans, Jon Lovitz fans, Steve Martin fans, Adam Sander fans, Adam Baldwin fans, Christopher Walken fans, Chris Farley fans, Ben Stiller Fans, Norm Macdonald fans, Chris Elliott fans, Will Ferrell fans, Robert Smigel fans, a few others.
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that was acceptable. (usually when "talkback" is used as a noun, it refers to the entire talkback, not each comment individually, but as a fellow Mr., I will let it slide)
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I would at the very least Netflix some of the later sets for a nostalgia kick. Oftentimes, my favorite skits are not chosen for "best of" sets and who knows what memories would be jogged.
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moderate fail. at least you mentioned specific things that you dislike about Poehler. mostly men are just threatened by funny women in general, but you are threatened by a specific funny women, and further, specific funny things she says and does.D-
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ironic humor is never a fail. meta-high five!! (I just high-fived myself)
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I think Maya Rudolph is funny AND fine! I hope she comes back often.
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What is forcing detainees watch that replacing waterboarding as the preferred choice of torture by the CIA these days? Seth Meyers is arguably the worst on-air talent since they canned Horatio Sanz. And that is saying a lot.
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Sorry... I just don't see it...
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Should this casting come as a surprise to anyone? The first thing I heard on that fateful Friday morning all those weeks ago was that Palin looked exactly like Tina Fey. -
i misread what was written big deal. Its guys like you who look stupid for nitpicking minor mistakes.
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He's probably available. OJ Simpson's on trial again, it's time for some more "OJ is a murderer" jokes.
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Palin looks like Peggy Hill, not Tina Fey. And Wonka, I realize SNL will always have its apologists, but the show has been terribly tame since the frat boy crew (Sandler/Farley etc.) left, Smigel/digital shorts excepted. And tame is comedy death. Michaels thinking Fey could play a good Palin based on an extremely vague physical resemblance is just more evidence of that.
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Although I think SNL has been mediocre at best the last decade, I thought the Murphy years, the All Star cast year (Crystal, Short, Guest, Shearer), and the Carvey/Lovitz/Hartman/Hooks/Meyers years were all solid years. Personally I wouldn't buy a box set of any year because the nature of SNL makes a lot of the sketches dated. Even many classic sketches from the original Not Ready for Primetime Players don't hold up three decades later. I'd rather go with a best of DVD although those can be weak too because I question some of the choices in those DVDs.
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The Carvey/Hartman/Meyers/Lovitz years had "tame" comedy. A lot of their stuff was far from cutting edge. Tame comedy can be funny even on SNL. It just has to be well written. That is what is missing from SNL in recent years - good writing.
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Herc, did you mean Alec Baldwin? or My Bodyguard Adam Baldwin
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"Night of the Masturbating Zombies" wasn't very tame
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"According to a report released Tuesday, female inmates in the United States have been victims of sexual misconduct by corrections employees in every state, except Minnesota. So ladies, if yo wanna rob a bank, but you don’t want your cooter poked, head to beautiful Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes." - Tina Fey, Weekend Update
She also wrote one of the funniest sketches ever, with Cristopher Walken and the census taker, where he was married to a bobcat and references having sex with it.SNL hasn't been tame at all, it's just had more mediocre sketches. there have been just as many provocative sketches as earlier, they just aren't as innovative as they were in the 70's and early 80's but how could they be?and Fey coming back to play Palin certainly has to do with their resemblance, but if you think Fey can't pull off her "persona", you're nuts. the fact that they look alike is icing on the cake, and if it's what got them thinking of it, so be it. Fey will kill! -
it still won't be funny
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Anyone heard anything about who is hosting the three successive episodes after the premiere? Sports stars are always a bit stiff and limited, though LeBron and Manning were both better than I expected. I've poked around a little on the internets and haven't found much word about who might be hosting in the weeks immediately following. The Tentative schedule looks awesomely grueling: four in a row (which they've only done once before, earlier this year), then a week off, and three more in a row... with all of this extra Thursday material going on around the same time.
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But they should just let Casey Wilson play Sarah Palin. SNL needs to develop the cast that they have, not bring back past cast members for cameos, especially now that Amy Poehler is leaving. Tina Fey needs to focus on her Emmy-Award winning show, 30 ROCK, not on cameos for SNL. Let Casey Wilson do her job and play Palin.
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yes, i'm clearly the stupid one for "nitpicking" your "misreading" of the article. if you're going to put something out into the public forum and you don't want people to criticize your errors, then do yourself a favor and get your sh*t straight before you post.
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that's a 4 minute youtube vid of the best of Tina Fey on Weekend Update."Researchers have developed a new male contraceptive shot which has worked 78% of the time on monkeys. Which is great, if your monkey hates condoms as much as mine does.""It's been reported that Mel Gibson is buying a private 5000 acre island in Fiji for $15 million dollars. Not having any Jews around? Priceless."
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He reminds me more of Arty Lang
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Should be the next SNL release. Fey has to be Palin. That's all i got.
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no one likes someone that's just going to pick apart every little detail about stuff like that.also, I'm being ironic, and therefore it's funny. I offer you a high-five with Mr. Beaks' hand.
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It's amazing this guy is still doing it, you know? Or that he'd even want to. You'd think he would have moved on to something else long ago.
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Tim Meadows would be a perfect Obama.
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His political commentary thing on update was supposed to be re-occurring throughout the season, no?
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Will be hilarious. "Ahh Gawd, ah Cheeses, Ahh Gawd, Gawd. Ahh crape."
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Sep 11, 2008 8:10:04 PM CDT
More watched than anything on Saturday primetime, Herc?
by therealratigan
That would be something to brag about if it was any other night of the week but Saturday. Can anybody else in this TalkBack even name one show on any network Saturday night that's NOT Saturday Night Live or MAD TV? Nobody watches anything on Saturday night! Did Lorne mention if they still have one and a half times the MAD TV audience?
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Fey's funny when she's not political. When she gets political she tends to start lecturing the audience (see, eg, her Hillary Clinton rant last year). I'm sure there's room for a funny parody of Palin but I'm not sure that Fey can put her own biases away to do it.
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Finally a use for his talents.
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Anyone ever see Evil Iguana's "Aquaman" video where instead of helping Batman fight the Joker, A-man just wants to watch Michael Phelps compete in the Olympics and eat bananas?
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No mention of Kristen Wiig? She is the funniest cast member, IMO.
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And since so much has been made in the media about how much she resembles Palin I could see her wanting to do it.
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Another example... when they used the word "penis" like 200 times in a sketch to the point that they wouldn't air the sketch in reruns. There are other un-tame examples that I can't come up with now, but someone else can, I'm sure.
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I'll take a D- from you, good sir.
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I didn't say everything they did was tame, but a lot of it was. Compared to a lot of casts before and after, they were rather tame and relied on more conventional sketches than other casts that used more cutting edge ones.
People like Hartman, Jan Hooks, and Nora Dunn actually liked to pay homage to classic comedy bits, TV, and radio in a lot of sketches. Kevin Nealon was probably the most tame Weekend Update host ever. Although Dennis Miller was usually edgy and arguably the most consistently cutting edge one on the show during that era when he was hosting Weekend Update. -
You can't watch it and expect something shocking or risque. It's not the place for that, and I'm not really sure it has been for quite a while. It's not SNL's fault. They try (see Dick in a Box sketch, that's about as risque as they get, and how many years ago was that?). There are so many other comedy troupes out there, thanks to the internet, that have moved at hyperspeed beyond SNL in terms of their ability to shock. Even on a Saturday at 11:30 pm, as long as it's on the network airwaves, they will be restricted. So bring on the double entendre and dick jokes.
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Does anyone watch SNL to be shocked? You watch to get a good one-liner you can quote for the next 4 or 5 days, then it's on to the next week. Oh, and for Amy Poehler. We all love her.
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Was announced tonight ...
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Wow. Just wow. Due to Ike, I will probably miss the season opener, but nothing can top the sheer hilarity at our next VP falling on her face against benign Charlie Gibson. Big Dumb Ape, I ask you, you really want this chick leading the free world once McCain's melanoma resurfaces?
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I'm terribly glad that he essentially replaced the perpetually creepy Chris Parnell.
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Revive the Church Lady and Grumpy Old Man for both.
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Whatver socialist views Michaels ever had is inside the stained line of coke on his coffee table from 1976. The man has been synonymous with corporate MOR for the past twenty plus years.
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because as someone else mentioned, there are some sketches that NEVER made it onto the "Best of..." series, or don't even make it in the truncated, 60-minute versions re-aired on E!.
Some of my favorites I'd like to see again:
Patrick Stewart with a group of kids telling all the bastards to raise their hands ("Raise your hand, Jimmy... You're a bastard!").Jay Mohr's hilarious Christopher Walken sketches ("Skittles... they're GOOD! You can EAT them... NO ONE... will KNOW!!). BTW, Herc, thanks for posting the link to Jay Mohr's book... I've read it a couple times, and it's an incredibly good read... lots of interesting behind-the-scenes moments.Elliott Smith's musical performances, both of which are edited out of the 1998 episode when it's re-airedThose are just a few examples of stuff I'd not only like to see again... but I'd love to own them.
And, I have to agree with BadMrWonka... all we ever hear are the same complaints over and over. Save the first few years, those complaints have existed the entire run of the show... even during seasons that are NOW deemed classic. If anyone remembers the great cast purge of the 1995-1996 season, there was a TON of bitching about the new cast, which include such "hacks" as Jim Breuer, Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond, David Koechner, Cheri Oteri, Nancy Walls, Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon and Colin Quinn.And yeah... those of us who are longtime SNL fans realize that not every sketch is funny... it's ALWAYS been like that (even during the first 5 years... watch them again on DVD... they definitely had their clunky, awkward moments). For me, I just think it's pretty cool that a group of comedians is able to put ANYTHING together for LIVE TV on a weekly basis (I'm also married to a former improv actress, so I know that performing comedy in front of a live audience is much more difficult than most people can even imagine).Bottom line: SNL still makes me laugh, sometimes really hard. Sure, it can't be as edgy as "Curb Your Enthusiasm" or "Weeds", or as crazy and raunchy as "Da Ali G Show", being that it's on network TV... but for a show that is 33 years old, it's not bad (plus, it's free... can't beat that). -
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in Tao te Ching, he wrote, ""When the country is confused and in chaos, loyal ministers appear. When people lose their sense of awe in the world, they turn to religion. When they lose faith in themselves, they turn to authority."
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You're the one millionth talkbacker to say that during an SNL talkback! Wow you're clever. No one thinks of saying that. On second thought. You don't get shit! Because you broke the rules. Under section 37B of the contract signed by you, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void if - and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy. I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained," et cetera, et cetera...Fax mentis incendium gloria cultum, et cetera, et cetera...Memo bis punitor delicatum! It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole fizzy lifting drinks. You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get *NOTHING*! You lose! Good day sir!!!
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Are you really going to say people were wrong that Colin Quinn sucked? The guy hasn't done anything remotely funny since Remote Control in the 80s.
Bottom line is that people haven't been complaining about SNL during it's entire run. It was hugely popular during the Eddie Murphy years. And during the Carvey/Lovitz/Hartman/Meyers run. It was still very popular during the Sandler/Snyder/Spade/Farley years. There was a decline in popularity during the Ferrell years, but both fan and critical reaction was that SNL improved, not got worse. It wasn't until the Sanz/Fey/Fallon era did people start to say the show sucked.
People want to rewrite history of this show. Other than a few years in 80s, the show was immensly popular through the end of the 90s. It has been this decade where SNL has become irrelevant. -
I took an improv class with Bobby last year (he used to teach at UCB, also showed up at ASSCAT from time to time) - can't say he was any great shakes as a teacher, but he's a really nice guy and he has amazing comic instincts, so I'm excited to see what he'll do on SNL. (they made him shave his beard, though, which I think really bummed him out)
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I guess all unbiased jokes will be thrown out the window then. Fey will obviously protray her as some kind of victim because she's a woman. Much like how she "stuck up" for Clinton during the primaries ("Bitch is the new black!"). The only reason she did that is because Clinton is a woman. Yet again SNL will provide clips for Fox News and other Republican pundits. Fey will do jokes about how Palin is "one of the guys" and how she's a mother of five, so that qualifies her to be Vice President. I severely doubt she'll make fun of how Palin fired people just to help out her sister or that she believes in abstinence only teaching, which has proven to heighten underage pregnacies, or that she looked into banning certain books from the library and threated to fire the head librarian if she didn't follow her orders, or that as Vice President she will have her "finger on the button" while she believes dinosaurs existed 4,000 years ago. I have an idea for a skit: How about get someone to play Joe Biden as he's listing off HIS qualifications for being Vice President and when Palin is asked the same questions she just talks about shooting moose and caribu and being a mother of five and the comentators asking the questions gush all over her just because she's an attractive woman who does "guy stuff" (like pretty much every other man in America has) and then show Joe Biden standing there with his arms in the air like "I give up".
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While I don't think Colin Quinn was in the same league as Ferrell, Darryl Hammond, Molly Shannon, etc., I thought he was pretty funny (I even liked his "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn" show).As for fan and critical reaction being positive about the Ferrell years, I argue that *eventually* reaction got better, but I still heard all the same complaints. Perhaps it's a function of geography and demographics... I'm not sure; all I remember is that a lot of my friends complained or stopped watching anytime a major cast member left. I'd say 70% of my friends who were "huge" SNL fans stopped watching regularly after the 1994-1995 season when David Spade left. They may have talked about how much they liked Will Ferrell, but not for a while.Again, your mileage may vary. I'm just relating what I've seen personally, having been a solid SNL fan who has rarely missed an episode for the last 20+ years.Then again, I'm also one of these "idiots" who has kept watching "ER" all these years, so maybe I just like seeing shows run their course. I don't know. I still really like SNL... I wish every sketch were roll-on-the floor hilarious, but the show still has some pretty funny stuff that I end up mentioning to someone (who will generally say, "Man, I haven't watched SNL since Adam Sandler was on...", etc.).
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should be played by Sudeikis' wife Kay Cannon. She's a writer on 30 Rock and she'd be PERFECT for it.
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wow dude are you some kind of uptight teacher who neurotically obsesses of other people's mistakes. This is an informal blog community where people write about farts and doo doo not an english lit. class where a misreading of something the difference between a pass and a fail. Their is no need for me to get my "shit straight" because a simple mistake here isn't gonna kill anyone. I guess you felt the urgent need to criticize my "entire post for being wrong". The post is one sentence long. But i guess for an anal retentive know-it-all like yourself, someone like that just can't be ignored and you have to prove to yourself how smart you are by saying something about it.
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I make it clear i'm not concerned with spelling and grammar on fanboy blog site.
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is that they've overused the duel format and the same set for awhile now, what it was Fallon/Fey for a number of years folloed by Fey/Pohler, then Pohler/Myers. WU needs a new set, needs someone new behind the desk and it needs to go back to the solo anchor. I'm not saying that the duel anchors doesn't work,it's had some good stuff, but I FEEL that it's time for a change, a shakeup
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When they decide to trim down the qty of skits and then end up stretching the joke of others for what seems like days whatever humor there was (if any) is burned. Doesn't the awkward silence from the studio audience tell them anything or is this just the way it is for SNL? Talk about beating a dead horse over and over and over and over and over and over . . . . . .
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SNL hasn't been funny in years. The Simpsons called it, a long time ago, back when the Simpsons was still funny.
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for women was pretty funny. I don't care how they get Fey back on SNL, just do it. Thinking about grudge-fucking her was the only entertaining thing about SNL in the last 5 years.
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I figure he would whore himself out to SNL for any of the past crappy movies he has made. Anybody know the story or rumor on it? I wonder if they are going to shake up the formula this year. It's a 15 min show to me with DVR.
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if for nothing else, the chance to see Robert Downey Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall in their early years getting their sea legs, Mary Gross's breasts (Yeah, I thought Mary Gross was nerd-hot, so sue me) and that really silly skit with Martin Short and Harry Shearer playing these third-rate syncrhonized swimmers who couldn't even swim properly!
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I noticed you misspelled Crazybubba ColWTH. I guess even spelling and grammar expert like yourself can be prone to mistakes.
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Refreshing to see good information on here.
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Animated or not, he sounds exactly like her.
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They are both white chicks with brown hair and glasses. End of comparison. Tina Fey is funny, studious, serious and interesting. Palin is a low grade politician with a funny accent, no rhetorical skills, bad timing, and insane personal beliefs on the universe and the non-human cause for global warming who the lame pandering republicans trotted out on the ticket because mccain thinks women are stupid enough to vote for genitals.
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is a left wing propaganda tool used to sway uneducated, young voters to vote for Osamba. Plus Tina Fey has floppy tits
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Sep 12, 2008 9:07:31 AM CDT
So, how many guys on this site have been governors?
by shut the fuck up donny
Anyone?..Anyone?..No?
Okay, then. She may not be the greatest political pick of the millenium, but (essentially)boiling Sarah Palin down to a vagina with a bible seems a bit much, people. -
"I have an idea for a skit: How about get someone to play Joe Biden as he's listing off HIS qualifications for being Vice President and when Palin is asked the same questions she just talks about shooting moose and caribu and being a mother of five and the comentators asking the questions gush all over her just because she's an attractive woman who does "guy stuff" (like pretty much every other man in America has) and then show Joe Biden standing there with his arms in the air like "I give up"."
You mean like the debate skit between Obama and Clinton from the Spring? -
SUCKS...Sorry, but even the old episodes are pathetic.
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For a show "nobody watches," this is sure getting a lot of talkbacks. WU was funnier when they played it straight, without the wink-wink-know-what-I-mean attitude. Have Hader, Sudeikis or both read crazy shit straight-faced -- either would be better than Meyer.
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I guess we will have to agree to disagree about Colin Quinn. He was painful to watch as the Weekend Update host. His delivery was horrible. I thought he was genius in his Remote Control years, but I think he fits in better in an unstructured environment.
As for the Will Ferrell years, every new cast gets met with skepticism and ire from the fans. People just don't like massive changes like that and many times it takes time for sketch comedians and the writers who write for them to find their voice. But I never felt they found that voice in the Fallon/Santz years unless constantly cracking up during lame sketches is considered finding a voice.
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Just add whig.
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Kanye hate white PRESIDENTS and white people with cameras!
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You've reminded me that SNL was never funny, and that the Simpsons haven't been funny in a decade - all in one Subject:!
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simply because she has a nicer rack.Current issue of EW does have a photo of Palin and Fey side by side and the resemblence is striking.If Mcain loses, Palin can always go back toher original job...as LensCrafters model..
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Sep 12, 2008 12:39:06 PM CDT
CAN TINA MIMIC SARAH APPALIN'S DEER-IN-HEADLIGHTS LOOK
by bringingsexyback
from the Charlie Gibson interview? What's the Bush Doctrine? And she could be a heartbeat away from the Presidency? Is the nation on crack?
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BWAHAHHAHAHHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!
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That one was pretty awesome as well.
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...after the past eight years you actually ask the question "Is the nation on crack?"? Sadly, the answer might be a resounding "Yes!"
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That's where I thought this was going.
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Yes the nation is on crack for even considering this woman as a viable option as V.P. I sit here dumbfounded, how the hell is this happening again!!??!??!?? Ahhhhhh
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Go watch her fuck up her first big interview with Chuck Gibson on YouTube. That shit is fucking embarrassing. She is going to get murdered in the debate. Do you think Biden is going to be as nice to her as Gibson was?
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Sep 12, 2008 1:53:52 PM CDT
Watch Palin talk and think how dumb she would look without her f
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That was the rest of the subject line above.
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... bites her head off in the debates and then proudly walks over her body with his nut-sack swinging
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his favorite artist is Feona Apple for Pete's sake. And he donated a shitload of mooney to a some white troops in Iraq. Not to mention all the white people he collabs with in music (Chris Martin, Adam Levine, Fall Out Boy). Sounds like a white people hater? Leave Kanye alone!!! Pluh-eeeeze!
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Sep 12, 2008 2:31:44 PM CDT
OBAMA'S GONNA BE ON THIS SHOW - LOOKING FORWARD TO IT
by bringingsexyback
And I just finished watching his part 3 interview with Bill O'Reilly.
He was able to counter/correct/clarify every single thing Bill threw at him, including the infamous Ayers guilt-by-association smear (that all too many talkback wingnuts have been dutifully parroting). In 3 out of 3 intros to that interview, Bill showed Obama the respect, and perhaps even deference, that he EARNED.
Compare that to Charlie Gibson's totally softball questions to Palin, under which she was visibly unnerved. I know many people have been "energized" by her snarky speech at the RNC (which she has since repeated verbatim countless times on the road), but seriously - who still believes she is even remotely qualified to hold the 2nd highest office of the land? Not even Bush or Cheney has ever broached the possibility of actual military conflict / war with Russia.
I'd hate to say it but I'd rather have a REAL 4 more years of Bush than have Palin that heartbeat away.
GOBAMA!!! -
"The Original Mavericks"I crack up when I see that campaign slogan...
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It's "Fiona."It's "money."It's "Puh-eeeeze!" Proof read before you click on that button {[;^)Oh yeah, Tina Fey will make a better Palin than, well, Palin! Just stayin' on topic Father Geek...no need for any banning/deleting...heh-heh.
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morG you non-proofing bonehead...IT'S Puh-Leeeeze. Lawks, hoisted by me own petunia! Ha-ha, I kill myself!!
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...she's been staring down Putin for almost TWO YEARS as gov of Alaska (Chief of Nat. Guard). Tch, c'mon man, keep up!
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just as John Goodman would always appear as Linda Tripp. She lives in New York and I believe 30 Rock films in New York exclusively, so...
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id like fey as palin
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the minute Falin came on the stage, you knew Tina Fey was going to play her; the delay is probably about, guess what, money. It damn well better be funny!!(subtle misspelling,by the way)
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Sarah Palin as Vice President? That's funnier than anything that's been on SNL in years!!!!! (Unless it really happens - then that shit is just SCARY!!!)
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I don' know if anyone else watched it, but That video was really enjoyable. The chart showing the difference between Back to The Future time travel and Terminator time travel was top notch.
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I don't want a Canadian VP!
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in favor of Fred Armisen. Wonderful, a cast woefully lacking in minority hiring and Michaels chooses to go with blackface, and Cenac goes to The Daily Show and is currently the best thing there.
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That's funnier than 95% of the material on SNL.
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Then you're sick, have a family where you stay up kinda late, or most importantly, aren't getting laid. I'm 33 and I can't even remember the last time I was home specifically to sit down and watch SNL on purpose. And yes, I love me some SNL..BUT, Pounding cheeks is what happens on Saturdays. (woman's cheeks that is....cheeks could belong to any gender, but nope, woman's cheeks it is!)
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Which is most lame?
1. All the haters who feel compelled to post about exactly the things BadMrWonka calls them out for, every time anything about SNL is posted here?
2. People like BadMRWonka and me, who bother to respond to the above?
3. People who brag about their sexual prowess online?
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http://tinyurl.com/4zddtk
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Lorne Michaels is on failing auto-pilot. I'm guessing the parts of the show he was the 'fewest fingers in' can be the most interesting: the digital shorts, the animation, cultural references he gave up caring about decades ago...
SNL rarely has he any real bit anymore. Belushi used to be comedy had somewhat taken up the social torch of rock&rock. The best you get now is some funny jokes about current events.
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maybe if you spent a little less time explaining your fucking sexual prowess in an AICN talkback, you could set up your Tivo or DVR. I never watch SNL on Saturday night, but rather with a sandwich when I wake up Sunday at noon.because, you know, I be all banging hot chicks and shit all saturday. yeah, I have sex, YEAHHH!!!! you know it! SEX IS AWESOME!!!fucking douchebag.
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Are you really allowed to go last-name only on those two like they're Stallone and Snipes? Just sayin.
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...Tina Fay might look sort of like Palin (just the glasses really), but Kristen Wiig has that nasty, flat, nasal, Midwestern or whatever the hell it is shrill sounding accent down cold...and of course she's the most consistently funny cast member...
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Mya Rudolph is fucking gorgeous.
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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? HE'S THE WORST. GET A NEW HEAD WRITER, LORNE!
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Harry wants us all to vote for Obama...er...I mean....register to vote!!!
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...In CASABLANCA: "Why I'm shocked! Shocked to find out Harry wants us to vote for Obama. Er...I mean...register to vote."On the other hand I can't wait for Harry's usual hysteria induced editorial on the eve of the election, or reading his tear soaked words the next day when they announce McCain has won.
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Neither did Charlie Gibson. The doctrines have changed through time. They are, in order:
1) Unilateral withdrawal from Kyoto
2) "With us or against us"
3) Preemptive war
4) Spread democracy
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I don't actually think SNL is funny, but it is for some reason still relevant in the media's eye. Probably for it's political skits. The media wants to see how they handle Palin and I wanna see it live and be part of an event everyone will be talking about the next day.
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I just saw your message BadMrWonka and your name is ironic considering a certain message I wrote yesterday, haha.
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It seems we can't post messages in the talkback to his "register to vote" column, but what the HELL is Harry babbling about? He says (quote): "You can still register to vote in the upcoming Fall election. Now - to do that - you need to be a citizen of the United States and be over the age of 18. Personally I wish all of you could vote, period, I think the results would always be better. However, it's only those over the age of 18 in the United States."What the fuck does THAT mean? Does Harry actually think 7-year-olds should be voting? Or that people who AREN'T U.S. citizens should be determining who OUR President should be?
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Actually I have nothing to say. I just wanted to see someone say that in a political debate.
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I just posted some shit and made a statement about myself. I didn't say wonka gets no ass. (I know you get gobstoppers and shit all day.) I just poked fun at me. But if you took that as a jab, then hey man, I swear I'll set my dvr or something. Just ya know, go get yer dick wet sometime.... Me, I'm wearing a luchador mask and a title belt to a studio 54 bday party tonight, so it might not be sat, but I'll still get laid. (Even tho SNL's not on tonight.)
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You.fuckin.know.it.dude.
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Now besides my sexual prowess, you now know I like wrestling...Just figured I'd mention something else than sex. Oh and Fringe is a nice surprise, namaste motherfucker.
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In web surfing around, there's clearly a lot of creative (and obviously sexually frustrated) Liberals who have FAR too much time on their hands, and who have thus photoshopped Palin's head on to all sorts of pictures to create prime stroke-off material.Of course, the only problem with their plan is that while they thought they were mocking her and tearing her down, they've only helped to ramp up her MILF status and make many a voter now realize "Hmm, you know, now that you mention it, I really WOULD rather see her on TV for the next 4 years instead of big-eared 'I drone on endlessly like a boring professor' Obama."
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I have no idea what you're talking about. but considering my girlfriend is in Oregon tonight, I know I'm not gonna get laid...so...um...have fun at Studio 54?
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You know what the fuck is up. Don't play stupid. Just sling off tonight to brazzers.com.
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She looks and sounds exactly like that oil industry shill
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Actually, the Bush Doctrine refers specifically to one thing, and it's quite clear. If Sarah Barracuda had bothered to swim over to the Wikipedia, she could have looked it up and had an accurate definition from which to launch her diatribe about war with Russia.
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That's the logical direction to go.
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Actually, they're pretty close to the same build. Former beauty queen Palin wears clothes that hide the extra few pounds. And the new mommy boobs that ol' dog McCain couldn't keep his eyes off of.
And Casey Wilson is a perfect Palin, esp. if her take on Palin is the (almost) reformed party girl who's got all manner of batshit crazy personal beliefs. I'm guessing SNL won't take Palin this direction, but I'd have her spouting off all that nutzoid lunatic fringe fundamentalist Dominionist dogma about how Israel needs to get into a war with Russia to spur Armageddon and hasten the return of Christ.
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Because their politics are so completely at odds. Fey actually is attractive, though, I honestly don't see sexual Palin's appeal. I think it's a desperate attempt by her supporters to find something likable about her, and since she's not some lumpy, grey haired old man, that makes her attractive. Hey Look! Tits!
Let me put this in a new perspective, for all you Palin supporters- She's the scary Christian lady from Donnie Darko. She's Professor Umbridge. For those of you who will vote for her because you think she'll blow you in appreciation- fuck you, leave the country now. You don't deserve to live here. -
The show hasn't had a real "star performer" who can save even a terrible sketch since Will Ferrell (honestly- imagine that Cowbell sketch with anyone other than him.) I love Amy Poelher and think she's great, but even she couldn't bad sketches.
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I remember reading that it had to do with something David Spade said during The Hollywood Minute. I think it pissed Murphy off. Before you say he has no sense of humor about himself, I do partially agree with what Chris Rock said in the SNL book. Without Eddie Murphy, Lorne Michaels probably wouldn't have a job right now. Or at least it wouldn't be an 'institution' like SNL. Eddie Murphy SAVED the show when it had hit its lowest point and what you get from reading about it is that Lorne doesn't seem to see things that way. And regardless of what anyone says, Eddie Murphy is still the biggest star to ever come out of SNL. I don't see Adam Sandler as a star or anyone else really, for that matter, except maybe Belushi and Bill Murray. I just wish he'd go back to doing movies of comedic genius like Trading Places and Coming to America. Ya know... comedies without a shitload of dick, fart, pot, and sex jokes? Like they used to make 'em?
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Murphy makes movies with nothing but dick, fart, pot, and sex jokes. I was speaking, of course, of the Apatow crew. Murphy makes harmless family pleasers for when the parents can't get a babysitter on a Friday night.
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Before testing out his comedy chops on SNL, Phelps put his karate chops to work in this video: http://tinyurl.com/6kp563
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That is all
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Just to clarify Rudolph is to play MICHELLE, NOT Barack Obama!
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Just FYI, Obama cancelled his appearance due to Hurricane Ike. Too bad since Obama really needed this appearance to help get him more positive publicity. Oh well, there's always his appearance on Letterman last week which was a great interview.
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Your screen name is apt. Anyone votes for creepy "Peggy Hill" Palin because they think she's good looking ought to not be allowed to vote. This isn't American Idol; it's the Presidency of the United States.
The new car smell is just about off McSame's trophy Veep anyway and there's a long way to go. It won't be long before even hardcore right-wingers are starting to squirm with the realization that she's a dimwit who went to six school in five years before graduation college for a reason. -
or can we have a new SNL debut talkback without all the political bullshit?
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Lorne Michaels has always been and continues to be a putz.
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"SNL hasn't been funny since..."
1.) They decided not to hire billy Crystal (who was in consideration to be a not Ready for Prime time Player who was told on the day of the debut broadcast that he didn't get the job)2.) Since they changed the name. (The first episode was called "NBC's Saturday Night")3.) Since George Carlin quit hosting. (He was, as you know, the guest host of the first episode.)4.) Since the Muppets left. (A very strange troup of Jim henson creations appeared in about a half dozen of the first season episodes.)5.) Since Howard Cosell left. (Refers to a previous ABC variety show also called Saturday Night Live.)6.) Since Chevy left. (Early in the second season, iirc.)7.) Since the Not Ready for Prime Time Players left. (Spread out over the course of years as the cast evolved.8.) Since Denny Dillon and Gail Mathius were fired. (Members of the 'ill fated second cast' - Dillon moved on the Dream On and Women In Prison, Mathius to the sketch comedy series Laff Trax. They were fired with the entire cast when the late Charles Rocket said fuck on the air.And so it goes through out a nearly two dozen year history with multiple "stopped being funny" benchmarks along the way. These are some of the earliest, which makes them the funniest.By the way, SNL is sometimes hilarious, sometimes infuriatingly bad, and usually either interesting or entertaining. More than I can say about most of this century's musical guests. -
The instinct to want to beg Tina Fey to come back to portray one of the vice presidential candidates in the US presidential race is obviously appealing considering how much the news media made of said candidate's resemblance to her. But I suspect not only staring in a weekly sit-com but writing and producing it is enough of a full time job for a married mother - or any man, for that matter - without her wanting to sign on a recurring role, even if she does live in the city where SNL broadcasts from. I understand Darrell Hammond commutes in from Florida for every episode.Still, I like Casey Wilson, I think that, although underutilized during her debut season she has some real comedy chops and could easily pull off the role of Sarah Palin for the next couple of months.The big question is, who will they get to play Biden?And God or Lorne or whoever I ask here, PLEASE not a Seth Myers solo-desked Weekend Update. He'd rank very low among the best WU anchors, and the competition includes Colin Quinn and the late Charles Rocket.
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is a recurring sketch set in a mall or a parody of a recognizable retail chain. The potential for product placement kickback would be fabulous. Kristen Wiig would be perfect for this. Also, obsessive parodies of current hit NBC reality and game shows. Or older game shows from the youth of the show's Target demographic. And a talk show parody hosted by a celebrity you wouldn't think would have a talk show - that would be something. Also, little commercial parodies and "viral video" film clips are great - the irony of running prefilmed segments on a show with the word "Live" in the title is innately hilarious. And instead of exposing talented up and coming musical acts, selecting a musical guest form the current hit parade would really turn the concept of this shows early years on it's head. This show practically writes itself.Maybe they shouldn't let it do that.
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that the fat black guy has a character that says "Oooh-wee!" a lot. Comedy gold, Jerry, comedy gold.
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Fucking dammit.
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She answered pompous Charlie's question correctly. There are at least four different ideas that have each been called the Bush Doctrine. Please check your facts before judging the only person on either ticket with actual governing experience.
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Never saw that coming *eye roll*
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What are those 4 ideas?
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http://www.morecowbell.dj/Go there.Upload any MP3 from your computer.Add 1-99% MORE COWBELL.Add 1-99% Christopher Walken quotes.Push play.ROFLMAO and Explore The Space. I Like What I'm Hearing.
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How long will it take before she shows her true colors and says something hateful towards Palin? I give her three seconds.
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Quit wetting your panties over your beloved Sarah, you fucking thin-skinned pansies.
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Sucks ass and always has.
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Tina Fey gonna make fun of my goddess Sarah!!! WWAAHHHH!!!!!
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great opening already
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I hope Fey makes this a recurring thing for the season, kind of the way John Goodman made repeated guest appearances as Linda Tripp back in the 1990's.
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could probably play ed helms in an Ed Helms biopic
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You know it in your heart to be true. It's really the only way to go. He shouldn't even do an impersonation. . . it should just be Tim Meadows in a suit, or a very slight variation on the Ladies Man without the goofy voice.
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Great opening!!
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or did that sheep just say "what the fuck" in that commercial?
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Anybody else notice Guy Fieri just sitting there watching SNL next to Shatner?!
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I'd be surprised if he didn't.
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Wow, it's "Crazy Christians" brought to life
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1. (pre 9/11): unilateral withdrawl from ABM and other treaties considered outdated/hinderances
2. any nation supporting terror/terrorists will be considered a hostile regime (if you aren't for us you are against us)
3. Preemption (the one Gibson cited)
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but that dance was hilarious. i'm liking this ep a lot so far, but i'm still wating for the inevitable talkback hate. even michael "mclovin" phelps is keeping up as best as he can.
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Plus, Peyton Manning was actually kinda funny and could say his lines.
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was still awesome though.
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Oh no, they made fun of Palin! How dare they mock a woman! Their evisceration of Clinton doesn't count because she's a bitch, right guys?
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'Cause damned if she doesn't look like a Stepford Wife.
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is like nails on chalkboard
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Sep 13, 2008 11:06:41 PM CDT
Every Phelps role is either a dumbass, an r-tard or Michael Phel
by yotzvonfrelnik
They wrote sketches for him that he had zero difficulty performing. Near-zero.
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I just got done watching a full slate of college football and was in a fairly good mood but now SNL is stealing my joy. Phelps is too vanilla (and droll) and apparently even has to read cue cards to introduce Lil' Wayne... Oh crap. Now Lil' Wayne is on. That's not helping... Wonder what Mama Phelps is doing right now. Maybe she's gettin' jiggy? CRAZY JIGGY!
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This SUCKS.
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You are parroting the spin dude. There may indedd exist multiple versions of Bush Doctrine, but listen to her repsonse, she did not know ANY of them. And the Busiheies do have what tye consider an official version. If she knew what Gibson - who was not in the least bit condescending towrds her, was saying, she could have rattled off what she thought it meant (meaning one or more of the versions,) not asking him what he meant. She is a lightweight. BUt that does not seem to have stopped her. I am saddend for McCain though, he should have known better, he is willing to put this country in jeopardy (if he wins and dies in office and she takes over) just to appease the radical right. He has lost all integrity in this.
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Please stop with the characters on Weekend Update. What a weak host... let Tina Fey host.
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Chris Matthews vs. Keith Olbermann
Obama/Biden & McCain
Something about the crazy political ads
spoof of convention
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Did someone not show up on set? That whole Usain Bolt thing couldn't have been planned. It made no sense, and was awkward and unfunny...
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they don't have a skinny black actor.
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True...was that the point of the sketch? Still seemed wierd.
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Space Olympics? Tragic and sad.
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one of the best of the night. the new guy seems to be fitting in fine.
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Sep 13, 2008 11:45:40 PM CDT
Terrible impression of a terrible Robin Williams character.
by flim springfield
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"Space Olympics" almost made me die laughing. Such a high concept music video that it blew my mind. XD
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...Michael Phelps is a great swimmer.
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...stay in the pool next time. lmao. i felt bad for laughing at an olympic hero...
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Sep 14, 2008 12:04:10 AM CDT
How sad, the only relevant thing was the SNL digital short
by orionsangels
SNL Digital Short the show!
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snl had SO MANY topics in the news. SO MANY they didnt capitalize on any of them. maybe michael phelps was such a bad actor that it would've been too hard on him?
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She was funny. The rest of the show was pretty pathetic. I mean, the ugly kids sketch? WTF? How is that funny? Does Michaels recycle scripts because I swear I've seen that one before at some point in the past.
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'A barrel of Halloween candy, and a gallon of hollandaise sauce.' LOL. That should've been first right after the cold open.Tina Fey is the sexiest woman on the planet. Smart, strong, funny, gorgeous, and a total Star Wars nerd. Sign me up.
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I'm embarrassed for them. I can't watch it. That opening sketch was fantastic though... I can't wait for 30 Rock to come back.
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Every skit was great.
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"Start out strong with a political skit. Lame host intro, a gameshow skit, a family skit, a restaurant skit, weekend update, weird skit, digital short, really short lame skit." Repeat the process next Saturday night. It could have been worse. Did you see the MADTV opener tonight? I did. You were spared!
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MAN! Tina Fey can get it any day! I'd be all "You can have whatever you like" on that booty! Heh heh heh ... Oh yeah, everything else tonight sucked (though I can't stop laughing at Kristen Wiig, no matter how poorly her characters are written - she can get it too!)
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I just TiVo'd through a lot of it, so I might have missed it- did they make any jokes about Obama? Did they even mention his name?
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as being "non-partisan" or impartial when you have to issue a press release with the transcript of the fucking sketch ahead of time. This has to be a low point for SNL. PS Obama should NOT have considered to go on SNL to begin with. You really think Kennedy would have gone on SNL? WTF has the American political environment come to?
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That ugly kid sketch was done before. It was Kristen Wiig and Seth Rogen played her brother. Michael Phelps was her cousin. It was an ok sketch.
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Do they know she isn't running yet? The overwhelming support for Clinton completely turned me off the show last season.
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... picture of the tiger as an "on-line preditor". That's it. Overall, extremely awkward and felt as if I was watching a repeat from last season. Michaels needs to be replaced in the worst way.
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And if not, he should explain why not.
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Michael Phelps struggles through his lines, but thankfully he's saved by lots of audience interruption. Poehler is his overly enthusiastic mom, Will Forte offers Phelps an endorsement deal for "My First Meth Labm" then William Shatner pops up to promote Pricelin.com. Oh, and Phelps' real mom is in the audience too. Phelps was pretty bad, but thankfully everyone else made it funny. Yet another repeat, because last year Kristen Wiig and Seth Rogen played a pair of weird little kids who do stupid things when company is over, and now Phelps plays their equally strange cousin. It's pretty dumb, especially Phelps' poor man's Napoleon Dynamite impression. I'm hoping the writers just didn't want to waste their good material on Phelps, so they just picked up some sketches from past episodes and wrote Phelps' name over whoever the host was before.
The icing on the cake of Phelps' very poor hosting job is, at the very end, when he says goodbye by wishing everyone "a good Saturday." I can only assume he's hoping that next week's host is funnier than he was, because this Saturday is over. -
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A long-overdue joke, but worth it.
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and then i turned it off
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ever since clinton went on arsenio, politicians have been showing up in non traditional venues...my god, mccain was just on the view, and palin showed up on 20/20...oh wait, that used to be a news show...palin made it a comedy...what a brilliant lady she is...and in tomorrow's ny times, palin goes down
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...as the teenage kid with the sax.
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Phelps looks like Andre the Giant at 13, and reads cue cards about as well. Other than the opening sketch and the Quiz Show premise (it died when Wiig showed up), everything else SUCKED! They had all summer to write their first episode, they have the biggest election in years, and issues galore to go after and THIS is the best they can do? Darrell Hammond and Bill Hader are virtually ignored, Samburgh does a HORRIBLE Cathy bit and an insipid Digital Short (all summer to prepare) and Wiig does nothing but the same tick and ugly face shtick over and over. What an embarrassment.
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It's funny how that suddenly matters to the GOP, now that they can't harp on "Experience" anymore because their VP candidate lacks in that category. It's funny because had Governing Experience been a prerequisite for being President, then why did Republican voters shun Romney, Huckabee, and even Giuliani? Rudy was a mayor of a city of 8 million, not 8000. All three are far more qualified than Palin. Its a shame when GOP pundits and supporters know this VP decision is an obvious pander, and defend it against their better judgement.
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1. Michael Phelps cannot act and/or read.
2. Hurricaine Ike pre-empted Obama and probable at least one or two more political sketches.
3. No Robert Smigel Cartoon. WTF?
4. They have a perfect Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin and even a servicable McCain - but still nobody that can get the essence of Obama down. We didn't see it last night, but I can't imagine the guy playing Obama has gotten much better, it'll still look like a wooden, stiff, uncharismatic portrayal of the most exciting political figure to come along in ages.
5. Bill Hader basically did nothing, and he's still the best cast member they have. Someone on the writing staff must not like him.
I will say the new guy looks like he could be the best new addition to the cast in years. Though I'm still shocked, SHOCKED, that they haven't added another black cast member. You're telling me there are NO funny black comedians out there???? -
Fine.
What the fuck does FLURJ mean?! -
I didn't watch much of the rest of the show, but Fey's return seemed like more than stunt casting. She really does a good impression of her. And Tina doesn't even do impressions. I'm also liking their portrayal of Hillary. In this sketch anyway, it seemed less like support and more how she probably feels. Tina's quiet "I don't know what that is" was great, as was Poehler's crazy "NO! MINE!" I agree that SNL has been mediocre at best lately, but they were on the mark with this one, I think.
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Fat Lesbian Undermining (the) Republican Government. Any other ideas?
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So I could fast forward through 90 percent of it. Although, the line
"I almost fudged my speedos" cracked me up for a bit. That's up there with "Alfred Molina's gonna kick your ass". -
He should of hosted
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But I don't think even he can pull this crap out of the hole.
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...this was an unmitigated disaster. This was easily the worst episode of the show I've ever seen. Phelps came off as semi-retarded, and even the cast seemed bored and unprofessional. Just really, really, REALLY awful. Huge disappointment.
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...needs less Lil Wayne and more Hooked On Phonics.
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Phelps wasn't THAT bad...you want bad, go watch the SNL where Nancy Kerrigan, or better yet, Wayne Gretzky was host. Then again we are talking about athletes, not actors/comedians. You get a big name like Phelps who was obvioulsy hired as a host because he is really hot right now thanks to his record-breaking olympic performance, to expect him to become "Mr. Entertainment" in a short amount of time just isn't going to happen.
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Phelps would've been far more effective as a surprise cameo: Bring him out, let people cheer, then maybe have him get one really good laugh. Anyone who saw his post-Olympic interviews could've predicted that this would not be his cup of tea- at all.
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I'm suprised they didn't throw in a "I'm going upstairs to masturbate" line that Joe Montana did eons ago. I understand the mentality of using Phelps as opening host. By this time next year people will be saying Michael-who? They had to strike while the iron was hot.And I'll echo the idea of having Shatner host sometime soon. With him being shut out of Abrams' Star Trek, I'm sure he'd like to rip them a new one.
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holy hell...amy poehler really sold that one perfectly.
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Perhaps the best description of Hillary Clinton I've ever heard.
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The Gretzky show was great. They did the right thing there and wrote around him, making the fact that he wasn't an actor part of the joke. I still remember the 'Elvis movie' sketch. God, but how many years ago was that?
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Don't forget that Nixon appeared on Laugh-In!
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Was probably around 87 or 88. You know what? It was the year that Gretzky got traded to the Kings. They did a sketch about Hollywood actors all glomming on and visiting Wayne in the locker room. Jan Hooks did an awesome Ann Margret impression in the Gretzky Elvis sketch.
SNL usually puts their funniest sketch on first, and the best they had was the home school one. Lame show. Needs a new producer who remembers what funny is. Something happens when you reach your 60's. You stop knwoing what funny is. Bob Hope, Mel Brooks and now Lorne. -
but people didnt think it was cool or cute...clinton made it cool when he played the sax
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Only if they're both dressed as Palin and Clinton. That was a FRAKING funny skit. The funniest moment was when Clinton said she doesn't support the Bush doctrine and Palin responded with her "I don't know what that it." I was seriously rolling on the floor. That tiny clip should be wall-to-wall on CNN, FOX, and MSNBC. And amen to "Clinton" demanding the press "grow a pair" when it comes to the skewering of Palin, God knows Clinton took it on the chin and, no matter how you feel about her, is still standing tall. And, not that this is a terrible thing its refreshing, how liberal this talkback is. I would have thought this place leaned red.
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but that was embarrassing.
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How much mileage has SNL gotten out of that old chestnut? I can think of 3-4 Weekend Update lines in recent years, and last night they used it TWICE. News flash--some Christians believe in evolution and that the world is billions of years old. Just like the jokes on SNL.
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Seriously, I just want Obama to win because I'm sick of all the liberal whining these past few years.
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Is that he was born 40 years too late. What he is, is a late 70s/early 80s Second City kind of guy. Do you think you'd see Samberg or Sudekis doing VINCENT fornicating PRICE impressions? He is absolutely the best thing on the show and after all this time the writers still can't find enough suitable material for him. Having him play essentially "straight man" is better than no Hader at all-- OR IS IT? At least he gets to do that chainsmoking Italian TV host a couple times a season.
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Nice of SNL to stage my wet dreams in their sketches. Go Casey, go!!!
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Why is it that democrats think that putting Palin in a bikini and making fun of her is going to cause people to vote for Obama? Obama just ran an ad stating that McCain is out of touch because he does not know how to use a computer. The man flew Skyhawk airplanes during the Vietnam war. He cannot use a computer because the Viet Kong hanged him by his arms behind his back too many times. He can not even comb his hair due to war injuries/pain.
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first lady i'd rim job??
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he was POW bullshit. Thats his defense for everything,
if the drummer from def leppard can play drums with one arm then mccain can use a keyboard.
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a question for republicans. If mccain for some reason pulled out before the election would you be happy for plain to step up and take the top spot on the ticket?
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Didn't watch it, because SNL has been HORRIBLE for at least 3 seasons now. I remember watching some skit about "big wigs" which featured people in an office with.. you guessed it.. big hair, and I said to myself "i'm done". I have checked in with people who had similar disdain for that skit and asked them "does it still suck?" and they say yeah so.. me no watch.Second thing: let me guess, Slappy Jones doesn't think it's enough that Senator McCain can't use a keyboard because he has crippled arms from being tortured. I haven't read his comment yet but I bet it says something like "he could use a mouse!" or "he should know how email works" or whatever. Memo to Slappy Jones: Who the fuck cares? I have absolutely no interest in whether any of these candidates can use a computer. That has no bearing on whether or not they have an understanding of the modern economy. This is as stupid as when the first president Bush didn't know how much a gallon of milk costs. We really need to stop focusing on stupid things like this.
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Bob Hope's corpse is funnier than the last twenty years of SNL and all seasons of Reba and According to Jim combined. Fuck your mamma.
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McCain pulls out before the election. Come on, you mean kick the bucket, right? Just say what you mean.And you know what? I would answer that with a resounding yes. Why? I trust her. I trust her values and I trust her views. She is to the far right of me but I trust her. I simply don't know enough about Obama (and neither do you) to honestly vote for him. He has not been "vetted" by the media at ALL. I mean for crying out loud, I keep hearing that he was a "community organizer" but not one journalist has bothered to check into what he actually did. Oh yeah, he "got out the vote". Really Barry? How? Did you do it legally? Who exactly were you getting to vote? Why isn't there anyone from that period coming out to say "Yeah, Barry saved my family! He set us up with a home, a job, etc". And yet I just read an article on what Palin did as mayor DAILY. Yeah that's right, it cataloged every single thing she did on a day to day basis. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely think that Palin should recieve this kind of scrutiny, along with any other candidate running for President of the United States of America. But Obama has somehow managed to fly under the radar with the media. As a result, I. DO. NOT. TRUST. HIM. I have NO idea what he has done in his life, any more than what I would read on a resume. Sorry, but you can't hand me a piece of paper with some qualifications on it and expect me to vote for you.
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"...its refreshing, how liberal this talkback is. I would have thought this place leaned red." Ladies and gentlemen, someone who has never... ever been on this site before! Welcome!
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best thing about the episode.
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can still play drums then mccain can use a keyboard.
His arms are not that cripple. I see him every day out there and he can use his arms. and yes I think it is important that the leader of the free world have some knowledge of how a computer works. but its not a deal breaker for me. I don't care that much but i do care if they try to use his POW status AGAIN to defend him from something. You can;t criticise palin or your a sexist and you can't him because he was a terrible pilot.
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could you write me a list of views and values you share with her?and also some of these amazing things she has achieved as mayor and governor
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so basically you trust any republican, or anyone who says they're a republican, over any democrat. Even if you don't know a single thing about her - which frankly, none of us do.
If you want to know more about Obama, perhaps you could head down to the library and check out one or both of the books he's written. Or maybe some of the hundreds of interviews he's done in the last year.
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You trust Sarah Palin. Had you even heard of Sarah Palin before she was nominated? You say she is to the right of you, but you like her values? Jeebus, man, did you drink the whole damn pot full of koolaid? She was a mayor of a city with 6000 people. I work in a building with more. Does that make the building manager qualified to run the United States? She was a governor for less that two years! Of 600,000 people. I live in a city, where that is neighborhood. Does that make my alderman qualified to be President? She has no knowledge of how washington works. None. The last time we elecetd anyone with such an absymmal lack of knowledge of how washington works - someone who was universally acclaimed for his intelect, his name was Jimmy Carter. And that was not exactly a marriage made in heaven. People talk about wanting change, and being outside of the beltway, but that is not the way this country is run. This is not Mr Smith goes to washington. If you do not know how to make policy, how to make decisions, who to hire, who to schmoooze, whose arm to bend, whose vote can be traded with. If you have no idea of Federal bureaucracy, of patronage, of how washington REALLY works. If you think it is all by presidential fiat or acts of congress, then you are a lightweight with no reason to be within a heartbeat of the most powerful position on the planet. I am dumbfounded how partisan politics can trump common sense. Being a Senator does not give Obama or McCain any greater ability to govern than a Governor of a state. But when the governor of the state that has little to know knowledge of the way the country and the world operates, then that governor would be a huge liability. Am I sold on Obama? No. But McCain has offered nothing in the way of chage from failed Bush policies, and he has introduced a potential huge liability in the event that his 72 year old, history of cancer, body breaks down and Palin takes over. How can anyone in their right mind think she is qualified?
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Can't communicate otherwise.
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..my dog to poop on the floor. Wait.. oops! There he goes.
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The issues on which McCain and Bush differ are legion:
* McCain fought for campaign finance reform — McCain-Feingold — that Bush resisted and ultimately signed because he had no choice.
* McCain led the battle to restrict interrogation techniques of terror suspects and to ban torture.
* McCain went with Joe Lieberman on a tough measure to curb climate change, something Bush denies is going on.
* McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts when they passed.
* McCain urged the Iraq surge, a posture Bush rejected for years before conceding its wisdom.
* McCain favors FDA regulation of tobacco and sponsored legislation to that effect, a position all but a handful of Republican senators oppose.
* McCain’s energy bill, also with Lieberman, is a virtual blueprint for energy independence and development of alternate sources.
* After the Enron scandal, McCain introduced sweeping reforms in corporate governance and legislation to guarantee pensions and prohibit golden parachutes for executives. Bush opposed McCain’s changes and the watered-down Sarbanes-Oxley bill eventuated.
* McCain has been harshly critical of congressional overspending, particularly of budgetary earmarks, a position Bush only lately adopted (after the Democrats took over Congress).
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I think the idea that you have to "know Washington" to govern it is overrated, and perhaps a little crazy. Bill Clinton was the governor of a pretty small state. Ronald Reagan was governor of California. On and on. So what? I really find the whole "McCain is so old he is going to die during his first term" to be offensive, but even if that were to happen, his cabinet and appointments would all be in place. Do I trust Palin to make good decisions based on their counsel? Absolutely. I absolutely positively trust her on that. I do not trust Obama for the reasons I mentioned above. I have no idea where he stands on anything right now. He said the surge wouldnt work. Then he denied that it had anything to do with the reduction of violence. Now he says it worked great, AND he wants to put more troops in Afghanistan. He condemns both sides in the invasion of Georgia by Russia. Now he doesn't. And about that "stare down Putin" line. Has ANYONE in the media even talked about Putin before Georgia was invaded? Anyone worry about "staring down" Putin? No. But you know who did talk about it? John McCain. Of all the major candidates, he is the only one who has taken a hard line stance on Russia, and he has done so for years. I trust her views, and she has been consistent over the years. Does she have experience? No, but I can think of no better mentor than Senator McCain. I would much rather have that then a President who I seriously question from day one.We do agree on one thing, though. Jimmy Carter is a fool.
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Wow, I'm so shocked to find a bunch of liberal douchebages talking shit about Palin on an AICN talkback...I usually never come across left wing hackery on these, oh wait... And as far as the polesmokers trying to attack her on her "Bush Doctrine" answer to Chuck Gibson, I wonder how Obama did when Gibson asked him that question in his interview a few months back?...oh wait...you..you mean he wasn't asked? He was just asked a bunch of cheesecake circle jerk questions about himself ahd his family and didn't even get asked anything tought about foreign policy? Doubt what I'm saying, here are the list of questions that Gibson asked Obama and Palin respectively:
Obama interview:
How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to “win”?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?
Palin interview:
Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]
But there is no left wing bias in the media, right?
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McCain wants to make the Bush tax cuts permanent. And that is the extent of the Bush economic plan, that McCain now wants to adopt whole-heartedly. And I noticed how you said zip about Palin - which is why I responded to you in the first place.
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Palin, well she did graduate. It is not offensive to question McCains age and health - that is the reason why we have Vice Presidents, in case something happens to the President. So, you would entrust McCains advisors, unelected advisors, to spoon feed Palin? Really? The last three years of Reagans admin, he deleagated virtually all authority to his advisors. Remember Iran Contra? I want the person I voted for to be making the decisions. To be competent and knowlefgeable enough to make the decisions. Not some shadow gov't.
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Did you watch any of the Clinton Obama debates? Do you have any recollection of the outcry launched at ABC and Gibson in particular over the 'tough' questioning of Obama? And just because a question is tough (and was it really that difficult?), that does not excuse being unable to answer it - especially when you are your partys VP nominee.
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since you wanted to know more about Palin, here you go:
http://tinyurl.com/6av585
this is an old school news article. not a smear, with true investigation done. and it might make you think twice about voting blindly for Palin, were McCain to "kick the bucket", as you said.in fact, everyone should read this...it's an amazing insight into Palin and her past, as well as her potential future. -
Sep 14, 2008 8:49:10 PM CDT
its hardly offensive to take mccains health into consideration
by slappy jones
He is a 72 year old male with a history of cancer. Hardly out of line to suggest that something may happen. I liked mccain but he has changed so many of his positions to fal lin line with the religious right and it saddens me. as for palin if you seriosuly believe the country will be in great shape with her at the helm then more power to you. And as for the surge...the surge worked but it is not a get out of jail free card for the entire misbegotten war.
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shitty to say about her, let me know.
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and Team America, and everything else lampooning Americanism, you STILL vote for McCain, you deserve everything you fucking get.
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Just tried to watch this....fucking horrible. SNL is just as shitty as usual. Glad to see I'm not missing anything. Almost to the point of Mad TV bad. Anyone watching this and laughing has the fucking brains of a chihuahua. Stop promoting this shitty show.
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Oh okay, if I go to his website and look up his views, I'll be set. Nevermind the fact that he has ties to people like William Ayers who planted bomb on American soil, but is a fully professed communist (with a big "C" as he says). And I know Saul Alinsky is a hero to the democrats but I don't like the association between Obama and his students. I don't know anything about this period in his life, and this is a big issue with me. And yes, I do think that "TIME and NEWSWEEK" have treated him softly, along with every other major news organization in America. If you can give me a link to an article or interview that's even HALF as thorough as the ones given to Sarah Palin, I would love to see it. I simply want that kind of investigation applied to all candidates. Particularly the ones at the top of the ticket.
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Very true, probably Nixon thought TV would be a cool thing to do and help his image. Still smarting from the televised debate with Kennedy!
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When it happens to someone else.
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Ahem... There are Chris Elliot fans? That's news to me.
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I must say it was shockingly toothless and offensively unfunny.
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... on the September 16, 1968 episode. So on that point about politicians of that era not appearing on comedy shows ...
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read the link I sent out, trust me. if you're smart, (and you sound smart even though I disagree with you about a lot of what you're saying) you will have to agree that it casts a lot of doubt on Palin.
and if you think that the media hasn't delved into Obama's past enough, fine, that's a valid viewpoint. but if you think McCain's camp hasn't, you're out of your mind. if they found any real dirt on him from his days as a community organizer, it would leak faster than R Kelly at the Kid's Choice Awards.face it, the reason Palin is getting a harsher light pointed at her is because no one knows anything about her, and she was a very left field choice. you choose Biden, there's much less to tel. he's been a senator for almost 30 years, his shit is out there. Palin hasn't been on the political stage much, and she accepted the gig, so she should accept the scrutiny. and not run hiding behind the campaign trail, only granting ONE interview. (one she blew big time, by the way...like "nucular" big).read the article on Palin I linked to above. trust me. shady, shady, shady. and this is an investigative journalism piece. it's not a smear. -
I appreciate the civil discussions going on in here- But I just wanted to state the obvious:
Almost everything written about the Republican party by the New York Times should be considered suspect at best. Yes, the article brings up a few things that make me think. But I would never for a second believe that the article was written with our best interest in mind. The New York Times is so far left that they are in danger of crossing the Grand Meridian. -
Hey "zacdilone", the diference between Hawking and McCain is Hawking is actually and interesting person with an amazing mind... McCain i just a dickweed!
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...were the still photos shown after commercials and such. The person responsible for envisioning those and/or the photographer is/are really creative...that's not something I normally notice, but well done.
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The only good thing about this show last night is that it should wake people up to what a piece of shit Palin is! The "I can see Russia from my house" line was priceless!!
However, for those of you who think SNL was bad, did you see how horrible Mad TV has gotten? I enjoyed the first hal of most of the episodes last season, but this one was unbearable. A bad way to start a new season. That tall buff guy that does the majority of the sketches is no longer on the show, and Bobby Lee is failing miserably taking up the slack. -
Palin should've been holding the baby like a football while wearing a bloody wolf pelt; Clinton should've have been wearing Puma sneakers and even more grudgingly supporting Obama.
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Anyone who thinks today's New York Times -- which currently gives space to both David Brooks and Bill Kristol, and which allowed Judith Miller to shamelessly parrot the Bush administration's Iraq propaganda -- is "far left" proves instantly that he is an unmitigated idiot, a lying sack of shit, or both. Not coincidentally, those are the two prerequisites for supporting McCain/Palin. Or, come to think of it, for BEING McCain/Palin.
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in fact this whole "librul" media myth really has to be put to bed.
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Nothing new added to show this year. No aquaman piece either would would have been uber cool.
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Sep 15, 2008 7:09:11 AM CDT
I'm an aussie, and have watched for years(thanks foxtel)
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
and Connie Stinson Talks with Christopher Walken is the flatout funniest thing I have ever witnessed.Murphy and Piscapo come in second as Stevie Wonder and Sinatra rejigging ebony and ivory. Finally third place goes to Belushis' Cocker impersonation. Fucking comic perfection. You are black and I am white, lifes an Eskimo pie lets take a bite. That was groovy thinkin Lincoln when you set them freeeeeee.
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but I wasn't aware that anyone referred to preemptive strikes as "The Bush Doctrine." There's a lot of things that could be called "The Bush Doctrine," and none of them are good.
That said, once Charlie clarified, Palin still would not give a direct response, so yeah, poop on that. -
But it is undeniably liberal in its slant the same way the Wall St. Journal editorial page is. To call it 'far left' is as much hyperbole as it is to call it 'neutral'.
And Fey was awesome as Palin. The accent was great. -
The sketch with the home school kids was hilarious. Tiny Gremlins in the blood, what force makes things fall to earth, lack of faith. Pretty funny.
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I totally get what you are saying but I guess in the end, it comes down to our perspective. As Obi Wan Kenobi once said, "a lot of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view".You see a woman that is being scrutinized because "nobody knows anything about her". Fair enough. What I see, on the other hand, is a media who is so arrogant, they are offended that THEY were not told of the choice before the day of the announcement. Since they didn't know about it, that means that she wasn't "properly vetted" and they throw down stupid points like "McCain only met her twice!" to make their point. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that their ego and their politics play a role in the scrutiny she recieves. The media likes to be coddled, and when you don't play their game, they attack. There are a lot of questions surrounding Barack. Like just today, I read an article that quoted an Iraqi leader as saying that Barack asked them to delay troop withdrawals until after the November elections. What? I suppose the fact that I read this in a newspaper (The New York Post) completely invalidates my argument, but let's just see how the talking heads handle that news. If Palin had done something like that, the news channels would have broken into their regular programming to tell you about this "developing story".
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Some people are saying she was grilled unfairly in the Gibson interview but I say, hey...she can take it. That's part of the gig...it comes with the territory.
However, there is a rancor on the far left that is skin crawlingly creepy. Just vist HuffPo or Daily Kos and witness the rage and visciousness of some people.
I'm right of center mainly because the Dems have pulled so far left. This is NOT the party of JFK anymore.
Conservatives definitley disagree with modern day liberals but damn...liberals loathe conservatives as despicable humans worthy of death. Where's the so-called compassion and tolerance there? -
LOL BadWonka ...
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Shamoan!!!
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They grill you harder for a McDonald's fry station interview.
You want a tough interview? Watch this mofos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbu5FxD9IUg -
All hail President Obama.
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Much of talk radio does however. He was kind of condecending...but whatever. This is part of the 'microscope up your ass' treatment theses politicians get.
Lobbing soft balls to Obama as illustrated by SNL is classic though. Obermann and Matthews would suck his cock live on-air if they could. -
Why do you care if she's a creationist?
Great name BTW.
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should be Emily Wilson from Second City. Too fucking funny.
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You clueless neophyte.
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Totally true. That's why he's running for President - because he hates this country. Once he's President, he'll be able to do whatever he wants with no opposition, and will destroy the USA. That's what it's all about, people!
Yeah and someone needs to investigate his community organizer phase. It is so mysterious! Someone please pull back the veil on this secret chapter in Obama's life.
Sarah Palin on the other hand was a small-town mayor. It's KIND of like being a community organizer, except Obama was a community organizer 20 years ago, when I believe Sarah Palin was a beauty contestant, or a sports anchor.
Being a beauty contestant is KINDA like being a community organizer, except you have to put lipstick on, and we all know how important lipstick is to the nation's future. Just ask John McCain, he's made a few ads about it. thank god he's paying attention!
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Let's not forget she has been governor of Alaska for almost a whole two years! (I think that's even longer than how long she's owned a passport!) And that great state shares so many concerns with the rest of the union, it might as well be a mini-version of the US. In fact, one might argue she's practically been president already. Think about how complex the issues are in Alaska, and you'll get an idea of the deep executive experience Palin has. Did I mention she has five kids and said "thanks but no thanks to that bridge to nowhere up in Alaska" and figured out how to keep the federal funds for it in-state anyway? Also as far as commander-in-chief cred goes, it's fairly obvious she'll be very "inspiring" to our boys in the military.
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before it existed.
Actually folks... it's always been about the same. one or two funny sketches per week, along with a lot of filler, and a couple of head-scratchers like "wha?!" sketches. It's been pretty good though for the last few years.. once they got rid of those chuckleheads Sanz and Fallon. -
Not saying it's you but certainly there are loads of wingnuts who belief Saint Palin should be treated with "deference" (yeah they actually said that). Charlie was just being Charlie - he has conducted himself in that same manner in other interviews.
As for who loathes whom as despicable humans worthy of death ... have you listened to Limbaugh and Savage? Are you kidding me? -
1) Fred Armisen as the political consultant. Killed
2) Andy Samberg as 'Cathy'. Almost as good, but it seemed like an extrapolation of a funny, 50-second bit on 30 Rock where Tina Fey did a Cathy bit using "AAAACCK.....Chocolate!!" -
Yeah, Gibson was fine. I've seen him be pretty consistent with all candidates.
No politician should be given deference because she's a woman. That's why I'm not fond of quotas based on race etc...it's all about ability!
I can't hang with Michael Savage...way too angry. I don't like to rip on people too much but he is just a world class prick. Rush is a blowhard. He's arrogant, a braggart and full of himself...but still listenable. I choose to hear peoples IDEAS even if I don't like their delivery. On the flip side, Randi Rhodes is one hateful little broadcast. Ed Shultz is listenable. Dennis Miller has a great show but I've always been a fan.
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Some of us in the US don't give a fuck what you think.
BTW, she would only be the VP buddy...why so scared? -
Did they get any close ups of that jaw?
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for the very idea that the sovereignty of my country should now yield to the whim and fancy of foreigners' perceptions--as they deem that they are in a clearly better position to make my decisions--makes bile rise in my throat.
However, I have a hard time making a rebuttal, as my government has clearly been butting in on other people's business since at LEAST Kennedy's Administration (if not Truman, even).
However, I still like to think it's a bit unfair to judge a populace by some of their political transgressions. Should I go ahead and assume the Spaniards, the Germans, the French, the Italians,the Russians the Japanese, the Chinese--hell, MOST of the world--are equally laughable and foolish since they at some point or another supported leaders that were terrible choices in hind-sight? Democracy allows for mistakes, my friend.
And I hope that the rest of the world is not basing their decision to support Obama (or rather, NOT support McCain) for such petty reasons. -
You know, I can grasp the fact people like Tyler Perry movies. I suppose it's possible people really dig Carrot Top. I even get that people liked 'Wings'. But I cannot comprehend why anyone, ever, would think Tina Fey is remotely funny. Her last years on SNL were terrible. I was a big fan of the show. It got so bad I wouldn't even crack a smile. Then there's '30 Rock'. Baldwin doing his smarmy sctick; Morgan being crazy; Fey the loveable, goofy punching bag. And they work on a sketch comedy show. Hardy-f'n-har. I'd rather watch the box set of 'Maude' while lighting my nutsack on fire. Now it's big news that she's coming back to a show her absence made (marginally) better to play a homely, square-jawed, mooseburger eating governor from Alaska? Oh wait, they both have glasses. How droll. I figured SNL had Fey plan Palin because they are both overly hyped by once-relative older gentlemen far past their prime.
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That one was downright brilliant. I don't know if people appreciated it as much as they should have. Not many SNL actors could have pulled something like that off. He had every word and beat down to perfection. He also just went up a notch in my book. True pro.
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So sexy. So sexy.
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Because that is the same as an unfunny joke. Humor is based in expense for the most part and that requires a point of view. I'm pretty on the fence about Palin at the moment but the jokes in this case are pretty funny for the delivery alone. "I can see Russia from my house"
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I have a borderline unhealthy crush on Tina Fey. Her and Anna Faris have a powerful hold on me right now.
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It wasn't funnier than anything on the last two weeks of The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, but it was funny. And lol @ anyone supporting the Palin/McCain ticket. The downward spiral of America continues.
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So IF Mcain is elected and IF he dies in office you think ...what? That she will burn all non religious books, usher in a religious caliphate, persecute all non Christians etc. ???
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That line had my wife and I both laughing. Good stuff.
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"...but the fact is that she is insane" HOW SO?
"...has radical views that would only set america back" SUCH AS?
"...i'm just waiting for real nude pic of her to show up online, cause you know she took them all women have" WHY WOULD YOU CARE IF SHE DID? SOUNDS KIND OF SEXIST
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I wouldn't bang Tina Fey with Harry's inverted peep.
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Air guitar? I'm guessing you don't watch the news or even THE DAILY SHOW much.
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Any time in the next few decades would be great, thanks.
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Jimmy_009 would melt like a witch if he watched a liberal jerkfest like that Daily Show...(and please before you misread that, know that I am joking with my talkback foe/friend Jimmy_009, and not making fun of my favorite show, the Daily Show...)
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the fact that I have heard them use the "she can see russia from her home state" line multiple times. when that is something you pullout to help beef up credentials it means you are a fucking joke.
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