SNL & the Al Gore skit.......totally sucked

[Mind_your_head]

SNL.....losers. You're not 'independent' .....you listen to your *masta*s 'very well' (slam a Nobel prize winner. says GE, etc., al......YES MASTA....You're wish is my command!)

[aquart]

1. I second the suckage.

[AX10]

2. What did they do?

[Sparkly]

4. They like to portray Gore as kind of pathetic.

In this case, hoarding all sorts of unimportant nothings as framed awards, basically...

[Mind_your_head]

10. One of the SNL players was bubbling around as Al.......

pointing out (deminishing) Al's Emmy's, Oscars, Nobel....

If you diminish that award for ONE....you diminish it for ALL the recipients, past and future.....

These DEVILS, and THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE ~ DEVILS ~ want to steal from you and me (AND IN THE BACKGROUND, I still hear SNL snarking at a *good man*, such as AL, or Dennis, or Russ, or Edward K, et al (a FEW of you)

[opihimoimoi]

3. WTF??? How UNAMERICAN and UNPATRIOTIC...Satire my ASS

[ProSense]

5. Isn't it telling that they

didn't take the opportunity to parody Bush and shine a positive light on Gore?

[scarletwoman]

6. Black hole magnitude suckage. Jerks. (nt)

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. SNL has sucked since the 70's

Pisscapo.

[Swamp Rat]

8. Glad I haven't watched that show in years.

Ok, someone told me SNL was good again, so I watched one skit: it was not funny at all.

Even the Joe Piscopo years were much better than the adolescent tripe produced by NBC nowadays. That horse has been dead for decades.

[TahitiNut]

30. Ditto.

They're all "establishment" types, now ... no 'edge' and no insight. There's not a 'counter-culture' perspective on the whole show. It's cheap shots and infantile, playground jeering.

It was excellent in the 70's and early 80's ... and had true satirists. They're all Drew Carey wannabe's now.

[Swamp Rat]

34. "Beseeball ha been beddy beddy goo' to me."

One the BEST:



etc..........

[TahitiNut]

38. I laughed until tears came to my eyes when Sammy Sosa echoed that line.

I loved Belushi, Radner, and Carlin. Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd have never been as good. Andy Kaufman was a comic genius. Garret Morris was incredibly versatile and Jane (you ignorant slut) Curtain was marvelous.

[Swamp Rat]

40. Sorry to have left out Jane.

I meant to post a Conehead pic.



Man, do I miss those days.

Lookey Zappa!!!

[Mind_your_head]

45. Who would have ever guessed that Jane Curtain was a premonition

20 years too early of "that ignorant slut" named Anne Coulter.

It's true!

[TahitiNut]

47. I think it was a send-up of the McLaughlin Group

... and Jane was the parody of Eleanor Clift.

[WinkyDink]

55. No; it was a parody of the old "Point/Counterpoint" with James Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander.

"In 1971, the "Point/Counterpoint" segment was introduced, featuring James J. Kilpatrick and Nicholas von Hoffman (later Shana Alexander), a three minute debate between spokespeople for the political right and left, respectively. This segment pioneered a format that would later be adapted by CNN for its Crossfire show."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes

[TahitiNut]

60. That's right. I remember, now. Good catch.

[spanone]

76. find the pope in the pizza contest.....

[Vickers]

9. "In a stunning reversal, the Supreme Court awarded the Nobel Peace

prize to George Bush."

That was from Weekend Update...pretty damned funny.

[Bjornsdotter]

14. They must have read it here

....because some DUer (I don't remember who) posted that on Thursday.

Cheers

[Swamp Rat]

21. Yep. I remember seeing that post last THURSDAY.

It deserves a DUzy.

[Joanne98]

32. Not only are they Bush butt lickers their untalented too!

Can't even write their own skits.

[Bicoastal]

51. I hate to break to you...

...but that's not exactly the most original, far-out idea in the world.

[Vickers]

65. Then their taste in plagiarism is FANTASTIC!

[UTUSN]

11. Darrell HAMMOND has been doing this to GORE since 2000, yet

when he went to Shrub's first White House Correspondents dinner, HAMMOND was intimidated by CHEENEE, who caught him before the appearance and terrorized him against slamming Shrub in any way. HAMMOND went on to put in a nervous, sweaty, nondescript routine. He goes on talk shows and whines that people like us take his stuff too seriously, that he is "only a comedian." Yeah, but almost always skewering our side.

[Maccagirl]

13. Yes, his Clinton, while on the mark voicewise and mannerisms

literally drips with contempt for the man.

[PeterPuck]

12. Oh come on now....

That was nothing to get all excited about. They were not slamming him.... just having a little fun. The audience applauded loudly when they mentioned the Nobel prize. He is in the news and this was to be expected.

[pretzel4gore]

15. bush said 'you're with me or against me'

snl long ago showed it's with bush....

[kurth]

16. SNL is so way past expiration date - boring and stupid

[Mind_your_head]

20. Totally agree.....waaaaaaaaaaay past expiration date

you're a smelly corpse now (for a long time you've been *living* upon the legends of John Belushi, Jane Curtain, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, greats....GREATS!!! Gutsy, cutting-edge comedians/people. SNL has got nothing now.....just a hollow name. It's a shame, you're (SNL) a *shame*.

[RiverStone]

28. not even a distant cousin....

To the days of Gilda, Chevy, John, Dan, Bill.....

[OzarkDem]

17. Really bad

The audience didn't seem to think it was very funny, either. Not much laughter.

Really lame, made them look freepish, not much of a stretch.

[AX10]

18. This is why the Internet is so successfully competed with them.

[OzarkDem]

19. I haven't watched CNN, or any tv network news in ages

They've run off anyone with an IQ over 80.

[Ninja Jordan]

22. And you....totally don't have a sense of humor.

It was good fun. I GUARANTEE Darrell Hammond isn't a Republican.

[AX10]

23. How do you know that?

[Mind_your_head]

24. Put your money down......I'll take you up on that bet

Arrange it with a third party and I'm "in".

[onenote]

80. darrell hammond is a Democrat

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/ente...

[Maccagirl]

25. Um, yes he is.

n/t

[Ninja Jordan]

29. I'm pretty sure he isn't a Republican.

I haven't been proven any different.

[The Gunslinger]

74. self delete

[Warren DeMontague]

26. That show is still on?

Who knew?

[kster]

27. I am ashamed of Jon Bon Jovi he helped lead alot

of people to the SNL water.

Jon Bon Jovi you are done!!!

[Mind_your_head]

33. As an aside......I never understood the *Valerie Bertenelli*/Bon Jovi * connection/love attraction

but who am *I* to understand the ~ways of love~

Peace,
M_Y_H

[Mind_your_head]

35. And, I SWEAR ....swear......that everything i *know* I've learned from

(hill)billy Graham.
M_Y_H

[junkiebrewster]

36. are you confusing bon jovi with eddie van halen? n/t

[Mind_your_head]

37. You're right. Thanks for the correction

My sincerest apology to Ms. Bertinelli & Mr. Van Halen for my error.

Peace,
M_Y_H

[WinkyDink]

56. That's okay; they're divorced. :)

[onenote]

81. what Valerie Bertinelli/Bon Jovi love connection?

I must have missed that one.

[Joanne98]

31. I quit watching SNL. Bush butt lickers! Groveling on the ground...

Master Bush we obey...What a bunch of punks!

[Bicoastal]

39. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

They made fun of a Democrat! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

You people need to grow up.

[Mind_your_head]

42. NO

They didn't make fun of a 'democrat'.

They made fun of an Emmy-winning, Oscar-winning, Nobel-Peace-Prize winning PERSON, ~ who *just happens* to have democratic leanings.

I don't think anyone 'other than you and your *kind*' needs to do any more "growing up"......it's all about politics and demonizing anyone who's on the "wrong side" of the *money* ...hehehe

[Bicoastal]

49. What in the world are you TALKING about?

They make fun of Bush and Cheney every other week! Hammond does a wicked Cheney in addition to Gore & Clinton. And LAST week, they tore Larry Craig to shreds.

They made of Gore VERY mildly--he's a guy who's won an unusal amount of awards lately, so they were satirizing that. Nowhere did they say he didn't DESERVE said awards, right? So what's the problem? Have you forgotten the famous "Gore as President" opening LAST YEAR? Rest assured, they liked him then--and they like enough now to have gone easy on him tonight.

I'm GLAD they're not kissing his ass too heavily. Obsequity isn't funny. While Gore is my idol, in the world of comedy (of which I am a part), EVERYONE is ripe for ribbing.

I repeat, grow up.

[loser_user]

41. Al Gore has hosted the show before!!!

He hosted SNL back in 2002, I still have it on tape as it was a keeper of an episode, especially when he played Trent Lott in a skit parodying Chris Matthews. Did you people all forget that?

[Mind_your_head]

43. So? What does that have to do with what was on tonight?

Are you suggesting that just b/c Al was on SNL in 2002 that there would be some sort of 'loyalty'feality' NOW????
'

[Blue Belle]

48. That was when his daughter wrote for the show...

she doesn't work there anymore... she has a best seller now.

[Roxy66]

44. I said that out loud to the T.V..."This isnt funny"...

I thought I was being overly sensitive....I guess you all felt the same. Sort of disrepective.

[Mind_your_head]

46. HUGELY disrespectful n/t

[Bicoastal]

50. How so? n/t

[Name removed]

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Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[fujiyama]

53. I haven't really watched SNL over the last year or so...

I pretty much gave it up because I wasn't terribly impressed with the current cast...so it really wouldn't surprise me if the skit sucked.

But c'mon this idea that Al Gore should be immune from being made fun of is ridiculous.

[Peggy Day]

54. I thought it was funny. nt

[Norrin Radd]

57. This was a good skit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYuqoKxRhMg

[timtom]

58. They jumped the shark years ago.

n/t

[FatDave]

59. Just sayin...

Edit: Damn, I originally posted the same youtube video as ProgsRock. So here's an entirely new post.

Yes, SNL poked fun at Al Gore. It's what they do. That doesn't make them Bush butt-lickers. It wasn't a very good sketch. In fact it wasn't even a very good episode. This is the first I've seen this season, I hope it's not all this bad.

But seriously, SNL makes fun of all public figures, especially politicians. They always have and always will. Have you ever seen Darrell Hammond do Dick Cheney? You might like it. How about Will Forte's GWB? Not exactly a flattering portrayal is it?

They picked on one of your heroes. Don't go getting your panties in a bind, they'll be picking on your enemies again next week.

[Coexist]

61. OKAY PEOPLE! SNL is the SAME show that had Gore on in the scenario

where he won the election.

The skit was a bit lame, but they are comedians - they poke fun at current events.

Please take a look back at this and remember how much you all LOVED SNL that day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYuqoKxRhMg

At least President Gore has a sense of humor.

[riverdeep]

62. Didn't see SNL last night

but it does seem over the top to suggest they're in bed with bush. They suck, but I don't think they're sycophantic. And lame 80's Jersey rawker Bon freakin' Jovi? Try to scrape the bottom of the barrel around the sides there, you missed some. Is Joey Buttifuco next?

[renate]

71. Didn't Jon Bon Jovi do a whole lot of appearances with Kerry?

Not that supporting Kerry automatically makes him un-lame, of course. But he's a good guy.

And I dispute the statement that he is the bottom of the barrel. I only know one Bon Jovi song so I speak not as a music fan but as a shallow person when I say that IMHO Jon Bon Jovi is extremely easy on the eye.

[WinkyDink]

85. JBJ is so very NOT over yet.

[alfredo]

63. I thought it was funny. SNL was doing what it

does: poke fun at people. Their treatment of Gore was softball compared to what they have done to bush.

Lighten up folks.


BTW, I'm a big fan of Gore.

[JBoy]

66. I agree

It was a pretty mild ribbing of Gore. Not terribly funny in my view, and unfortunately very little in the rest of the program was any better. Funniest part was in the opening, when Richie Sambora forgot his one and only line.

[alfredo]

67. I liked the world's greatest dad cup. That was funny.

[Lisa]

73. the ORIGINAL -- with the security system on it!

They should have played that up a bit more, and cut a couple of the other "awards". Just because a sketch is long, doesn't mean it's going to be funny!

[alfredo]

77. I'm sure gore liked the segment. Let's face it, if SNL spoofs you, you've

made it.

[Lisa]

78. exactly ... he's appeared on the show several times

Even if he thinks that they could have done a much funnier sketch, he is too professional to hold it against them. (Which is more than could be said for * -- I was listening to Stephen Colbert's description on Larry King's show, of what happened during his speech at the press dinner last year ... when Colbert glanced over at Bush during the video clip, while they were both off-camera, he saw Bush staring at him, not laughing.)

[alfredo]

87. That's the big difference between small D democrats and dictators.

[Uncle Joe]

64. I thought the skit gave Al Gore, Rush Limbaugh's humility,

I didn't think it was funny either. I generally like Darell Hammond, but his impersonation seemed a bit rusty.

I did like the News Update part where they said the Supreme Court took it away and gave it to Bush.

[Snarkturian Clone]

68. SNL really does suck now.

I realized when I started watching Mad Tv and noticed that I actually laughed at it out loud instead of sitting through 13 minute skits and saying "how ironic. zzzz". I realized it when I saw that mad tv only had a 1 min opening credit instead of the 5-6 minute opening credit self-love fest. I realized it when I noticed that mad tv really trashed celebrities while SNL worshipped them.

I remember seeing Mad tv when it first came on and saying "this will never beat SNL". Well, that day has come and gone.

[Ninja Jordan]

69. Mad TV is horrible.

SNL much better.

[Snarkturian Clone]

70. SNL is for hipsters.

Hipsters suck.

[tritsofme]

72. Somebody call the WAMBULANCE

Imagine a satirical show satirizing a popular culture figure!

The nerve of those people, I just can't believe it!

Some of you guys need to get a grip, I haven't watched SNL in years, but getting your panties in a bunch of over a satirical sketch of Al Gore is just ridiculous, it isn't anything that anyone with their head squarely on their shoulders should even be upset about.

[The Gunslinger]

75. I was more upset that The Foo Fighters only got 1 song.

They should never be second booking to a half rate country act like Bon Jovi.

I actually thought the Al Gore bit was pretty funny. They do rip on everyone on the show.

[Buns_of_Fire]

79. Bon Jovi? Country?

Lordy, I HAVE been out of the loop for a while!

[The Gunslinger]

89. They sound like it now anyhow.

[onenote]

82. good grief. its a comedy show. you didn't like the skit. doesn't mean there is a conspiracy

[tammywammy]

83. I thought that it was funny

And I think some posters need to realize that SNL makes fun of everyone.

[greyl]

84. SNL is among the most liberal shows on TV.

Those that say it's with Bush can't possibly be serious.

[geek_sabre]

86. I thought it was pretty funny

They went extremely easy on Gore. I think one "Anti-Dem" sketch amongst 100s of anti-Puke sketches suggests that SNL doesn't exactly lean towards the right..

[mondo joe]

88. Didn't see it. But the gay love song to Ahmadinejad is about the funniest thing I've

ever seen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfiaxPsvnTU