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When court jesters stop laughing at despots they expect you to stop too
They’re funny, they’re clever, and their comedy can be dead serious, but it turns out when political comedians actually are dead serious they expect their audience to come to heel. Bernie Sanders was just a laugh, look at yourself, you … Continue reading
Posted in Enough Said
Tagged Al Franken, Bernie Sanders, Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman, Seth Meyers, SNL, Stephen Colbert
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Is Palin writing for SNL or vice versa? Who are this election’s screenwriters?
Remember when Sarah Palin gave her infamous 2008 Katie Couric interview? Palin’s disordered responses were so Miss Teen Carolina that Saturday Night Live writers didn’t have to wring out a parody. Instead Tina Fey brought down the house by repeating … Continue reading
Posted in To Dwell on the Obvious
Tagged Kabuki, Media, Sarah Palin, SNL, Two Party System
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Betty White’s muffin on the boob tube
Which came first: the Snickers ad, the Facebook group, or SNL’s crowdsourced mandate to fete American sitcom icon Betty White? To me this blonde’s netroots smack of a publicist’s hand, and White’s performance Saturday night all but validated SNL’s reluctance … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged Advertizing, Betty White, Facebook, Shirley Jones, Sitcoms, Snickers, SNL, Television
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Keebler Girl Scout placement on SNL
What was with the new face on SNL, cracking jokes on Weekend Update about Girl Scout Cookies? Was it a staff writer getting his on-camera big break? With unoriginal candle-holding to Gary Gulman’s cookie rap? I’ll bet the SNL regulars … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged Girl Scout Cookies, Marketing, Product Placement, SNL, Weekend Update
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Victoria Jackson plays self at Tea Party
Get over it. Gender equality for the Dennis Miller / Joe Piscopo action.
Th-Th-Th-Th-That’s all folks, in lipstick
Full text of Alaska Ex-Governor Sarah Palin‘s poetic address, wherein she explains that her contract with the voters of Alaska has a “lame duck” escape clause, stuff about a God-given right to despoil, some veiled threats to shoot gun-control revenuers, … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Alaska, Media, Miss South Carolina, Sarah Palin, SNL, William Shatner
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Is there a sumo in your future?
I used to avert my imagination on the subject of Sumo Wrestling. Probably I still do, visualization wise. But the bigger than grotesque spectacle has suddenly fascinated me, as a historic predecessor of the wide world of sport of our … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Football, Iran, Japan, Pittsburgh Steelers, SNL, Sport, Steroids, Sumo Wrestling, Super Bowl, Weekend Update
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SNL pays their respect to Sarah Palin
SARAH PALIN GETS A PASS ON SNL. But much more than that. From cultural figures whom we suppose to be rabid critics of the ice-rink-leibfrau, we get deference, flirty ass-kissing, an abrupt skedaddle, and an ovation. What were we expecting … Continue reading