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This was such a partisan hit job, It could have been paid for by the RNC. It even had a portrait of Reagan hanging on the wall.
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Iām not certain who watches this trope a tripe show anymore.
The skits have been vacuous for a couple of decades with a few notable exceptions.
Apparently āmean girlā is a requisite to be a edgy enough to make the under 30 writing team.
Funny enough if you binge drink and are in college perhaps but too clever by half.
Even George Carlin wouldnāt use this type horse shit sketch material.
Satire left the building long ago.
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I am done with SNL. They have become a talking point show for republicans. They are just bad, really bad, going downhill.
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Stop watching years ago not funny any more
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I quit this shit when gilda died.
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Lorne Michaelsās SNL has been on Obama since day one, what with the whole being black thing and then not properly cow-towing to Israelās right wing leaders.
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LOL. Kenan Thompsonās imitation of Al Sharpton is always excellent - heās got the voice and mannerisms nailed - the other two guys, not so much.
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I didnāt see it, and donāt have access to Hulu. So whatā¦ I gave up watching SNL over 20 years ago and see no reason to return to it now: Crap yesterday, crap today, surely crap tomorrow.
I agree. Our local station airs the classic SNL shows before the current one, broken by the news and the comparison is jarring.
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Across their properties and spokesslaves, Comcast/NBC has unleashed the elitist rage of the 1% onto Mr. Obama with particular intensity during these last weeks before the midterms.
They think, based on years of subtle manipulations, that the water-boarding behavioral effect of constant televised repetition can make the middle class betray themselves once again.
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I normally DVR the show and fast forward through most of it, but enough is enough, the writers at SNL obviously need to be changed out since the show has been on a downward slide for a long long time, and its not showing any signs that its going to turn it around.
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Yes after John Belushi and Gilda Radner died (I forget now who died first), and the coneheads died, I quit SNL, decades ago. It was often very funny in those days.
In the Age of Colbert, Stewart, and Oliver, SNL is dated, ignorant, and, most of all, unfunny.
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Belushi died of an OD close to 7 years before Radner passed away. Both of the coneheads (Akroyd and Curtin) are still alive and well, however.
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Wow! The teabaggers are right! NBC truly is a liberal network, all the way! Wow! Iām shocked!
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Wow, I just thought the EXACT same thing. Who watches SNL when Colbert, Stewart, Oliver, and that ahat Maher are on the air. But, Iām in my 30s. Iām a bit young to remember when SNL was funny.
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Even George Carlin?
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As is Laraine Newman, the original Connie Conehead.
At times like this, I try to stop and really evaluate my own subjectivity. The last thing I want to do is act like a right-winger who immediately starts screaming that any objective, non-partisan news outlet or comedian is part of a liberal conspiracy. Am I right to find this skit to be ridiculously and unfairly partisan, or I am just viewing through my own leftist lenses?
None of those things mentioned constitute an actual scandal at all. This is just an extension of the narrative the GOP has built on the backs of a complacent mediaāthat anything bad is Obamaās fault, though no one seems capable of articulating his administrationās missteps. Itās fitting that the writers call it āthis whole ebola thing,ā as opposed to attempting to explain how the Ebola crisis qualifies as a scandal at all. Itās analogous to critics of Obamaās foreign policy never having the guts or the knowledge to actually state what they think he should do differently. As a result, we get polls showing Americans giving Obama terrible foreign policy approval ratings, even though he is by and large taking actions most Americans agree with when polled on the individual issues.
ISIS, Secret Service, IRS, NSAā¦ In a post-Nixon, post-Reagan, post-Clinton, post-GWB world, these are scandals?
The skit feels nakedly partisan as hell. Thatās all fine and dandy I suppose, but to produce such a skit in the first weekend of early voting for a general election? It seems intentionally malicious.
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