Discussion for article #245669
This was the best skit of the night. I rarely watch SNL but I wanted to see Bernie do some schtick. I love Curb, used to have the complete box set until my son sold them. Doesn’t matter, you can watch them on Netflix now I think. This was a pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty good parody of the show.
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I just found a 20-year-old movie with a great clip of Bernie Sanders doing a Larry David impersonation.
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“She didn’t have the decency to give me a wipe”
“You’re an asshole, Bernie…”
Only caught that one the second time through.
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Curb was a horrible show. I tried watching it twice and only made it to the second show before averting my eyes in disgust. Just a bunch of people yelling at each other and being selfish assholes.
That being said, this comedy bit was a dead-on parody of the show. Equal parts yelling, insulting and general assholery. Exactly what I hated about the original show.
To portray a presidential candidate as unwilling to shake a black woman’s hand is bad enough, to show that in relation to Bernie’s campaign (after the stupid accusations about blacks not liking him) borders on libelous.
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Hilarious!
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I thoroughly enjoyed SNL’s parodies of Palin during the 2008 election, but the recent parody of Palin’s endorsement of Trump felt more like Rush Limbaugh mocking the Parkinson’s symptoms of Michael J. Fox. This parody of Sanders continues in that direction, just a little too mocking and cruel to be funny.
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I think this was supposed to be more a mocking of Curb Your Enthusiasm than it was mocking Bernie.
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agreed. I think because Bernie comes across as a nice and genuine person, the juxtaposition of Larry David’s “Curb” character is what is most funny.
I see Condews concern, as I felt it as the skit started (not being a big Curb fan). But it was clear in the over-the-top-ness, that even with out familarity with Curb that you got the idea that the character is very opposite Bernie.
Yea I’ve never watched Curb, heard of it but never watched.