SNL is now slamming President Biden...

[CaliforniaHoustonian]

..like they did President Carter.

SNL HELPED COST PRESIDENT CARTER HIS 2ND TERM WITH THEIR SLAMING OF HIM ALL SEASON!

& then along came the clown raygun who used Herbert's CIA to torture the House of Saud's disidents, pissing off OBL while he ARMED & FUNDED HIM, draging US into the RNC MIDDLE EASTERN SECTARIAN MUSLIM WARS!

[Wicked Blue]

1. Are NBC's owners/CEO right wingers?

I share your concern.
We should deluge SNL with emails.

[CaliforniaHoustonian]

42. NBC did give the 🍊 🐖 YEARS of support!

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They should have told him, "YOU'RE FIRED!" his 1st season!

NBC, like all of the commercial media, like having their CEOs, top executives & multimedia talking heads paid multi-million$ unfairly lumped into the same tax bracket as a working middle class family or a small business owner earning $647,850!

Flat taxes are effectively regressive taxation.that please the elitely paid (excuding Bill Gates & Warren Buffet & others who already understand the benefits to ALL of US!.

Dollars that could be used to help build Personal MaglevTransit modularly.

[CentralMass]

2. SNL pokes fun at every President.

[CatWoman]

24. !!!!!!!!!THIS!!!!!!!!

Each and EVERY one.

[PatSeg]

34. I realize that

and completely expect them to make fun of Biden. It is the ageism jokes that are highly offensive, not funny, and feed the right's narrative. It is an easy and cheap laugh though often minus the actual laugh.

[CaliforniaHoustonian]

43. True.

Some more than others.

[niyad]

3. Welcome to our DU family.

[CaliforniaHoustonian]

61. Thanks.

[riverbendviewgal]

4. SNL is no longer funny

I find their jokes not laughable and the skits on the dumb side..

[RKP5637]

6. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[LakeArenal]

12. The skits go on too long too...

I think way fewer people watch SNL today than in Carters time. That’s something I guess.

[riverbendviewgal]

15. True

I pvrd it. Then check it out. It is not the quality it was as in the beginning when I watched. I there were better writers then who went on to better shows.

[PatSeg]

35. I fast-forward through big chunks of it

Some of those skits are just dumb, not funny at all. I like Weekend Update and the opening sequence which is often good, but one ageism joke too many makes me reluctant to watch it anymore.

[Docreed2003]

5. Welcome to DU

Just FYI, you posted this twice today.

[Omaha Steve]

28. It was locked in Editorials because the discussion thread was off-topic

GD is where this belongs.

OS

[Docreed2003]

32. Thanks Steve

Didn't realize it was in editorials this am when I saw it. I was just like "weird, I swear I read this already this morning" lol

[CaliforniaHoustonian]

44. The 1st was "Locked," &

I was told to repost in "GD."

[brooklynite]

7. "SNL HELPED COST PRESIDENT CARTER HIS 2ND TERM"

"you know, I hated Ronald Reagan, but there was this SNL skit about Carter, so...."

I worked on Carter's campaign, and took an in-depth class on the 1980 President election (with access to campaign staff) and...no, some SNL skits didn't skew the election.

[Zambero]

14. They didn't help Gerald Ford much either

Ford was repeatedly characterized as an absent-minded klutz. Carter was the beneficiary of that portrayal. At the end of the day, incumbents are always fair game on SNL.

[CaliforniaHoustonian]

46. Yes, Ronald Reagan used Herbert's CIA

to interrogate Saudi dissidents, which pissed off OBL & resulted in 911 & THOUSANDS of dead & 10s of thousands of maimed Americans, so, yes I did not like Reagan & regret that President Carter was unfairly deprived a 2nd term.

Side note, while in Hawaii, I wrote his Department of Transportation about an idea of mine about adding computer coordinated slot tracks to our roads, & got back several books about personal rapid transit & maglev technology & research.

If I knew how to post pictures here, I could upload some copies of some pages here.

They can also be found at this site of multiple pages: https://prpmt1.webs.com/

[Sympthsical]

8. Try Guys fan?

[Zambero]

9. It's an incumbent thing

Aside from that, the season premiere, with the notable exception of the Weekend Update segment, was an utter dud.

[riverbendviewgal]

11. I agee

The update was funny

[milestogo]

10. Stop watching.

That's what the rest of us are doing.

[CaliforniaHoustonian]

60. Never

Must keep an eye on all sides.

[Mariana]

64. Why?

What does that accomplish?

[CaliforniaHoustonian]

65. Keeping an eye on threats to our Republic...

...is always important to respond & defend said Republic

[Botany]

13. It is what SNL does and they have been doing it since Chevy Chase's falling down as President Ford

HW loved Dana Carvey's impression of him. And I think Dana spoke @ HW's funeral

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[Kaleva]

16. As already said, they sank Ford's election in '76

[brooklynite]

18. No, they didn't affect Ford's election either.

People give inordinate amounts of credit to 5 minute skits.

[Kaleva]

21. I didn't include the sarcasm emoji

[multigraincracker]

30. Most people that vote

went to bed an hour earlier.

[Dr. Strange]

26. Not to mention what Will Farrell's impersonation did to the election prospects of George Bush.

[Kaleva]

29. Lol!

[relayerbob]

17. People still watch SNL?

Why? I try, about once per season. It’s awful. They try too hard and fall on their faces. Not funny.

[LenaBaby61]

22. REALLY THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[AngryOldDem]

40. I happened to catch part of it last weekend.

Had a very unfunny sketch with the new people, where one was talking about Lorne Michaels making her assassinate Putin.

SNL hasn’t been worth a damn since Eddie Murphy left. Most people today, I think, have no clue how good it was back in the late ‘70s, mid-‘80s. Why NBC keeps flogging this dead horse I’ll never know.

[Cha]

58. No, the last I saw was in 2016 when DT "won" &

Kate McKinnon played the piano & sang Hallelujah while we were all in SHOCK & Tears.

It was a clip on DU.

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. Argle Bargle. Nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. The SNL season has been horrible and unwatchable

[BeyondGeography]

23. You moved from California to Texas?

[CaliforniaHoustonian]

49. The other way around.

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From Houston to Hawaii to California.

I miss the warm water of Texas, from waterskiing & even wake surfing on the San Jacinto River in 1966 to surfing at Surf Side & Quitana Beach & all the other surf breaks of Texas from Galveston south to Padre Island & Port Isabel.

I do not miss the humidity or mosquitoes though!

Or the draconian laws for cannabis, or the Guns-Gone-Wild culture of the RNC punks.

[JohnSJ]

25. Not really, and frankly SNL isn't what it used to be

[Baggies]

27. This OP is funnier than SNL has been in a long time.

And probably not in the way many would think, which makes it even funnier.

[AkFemDem]

31. Are you new to SNL?

This is what they do. They make skits about public figures and mock them. They did it to Trump, they did it to Obama, they did it to Bush (both of them), they did it to Clinton. President Biden isn’t a sacred cow who can’t be satired.

[AngryOldDem]

41. Gerald Ford's clumsiness, and his stuffed dog.

[CaliforniaHoustonian]

50. Have been watching SNL since the 1st.

Just think RNC presidents deserve more ridicule than Democrats, because the 2 parties are NOT equal in culture or policies.

[iemanja]

52. Comedians mock power

whoever exercises it. It's their job. What isn't their job is to promote one party over the other.

[AkFemDem]

53. Personally I'm suspicious of your multiple threads about this

New poster, pushing the tired old meme that democrats don’t have a sense of humor and feel like the media and pop culture should be biased toward democrats. It sounds like something my right wing mother in law would claim democrats do that of course most democrats don’t actually do…

[CaliforniaHoustonian]

59. My 1st post re: rhis was locked for being in the wrong forum

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& I was told I could post it in the GD forum.

You are of course right about no 1 being off limits, but I still felt SNL added to some of the mean & false accusations about 1 of our best Presidents ever.

Much like some against President Biden, who is already proving himself as 1 of our best Presidents ever;

[AngryOldDem]

54. Then you know they skewer whoever's in office.

How many times did Baldwin do Trump in the cold open? I think your issue is with the poor writing and how the show has deteriorated.

“Good” comedy does not fall along political lines, as many others have pointed out.

Really surprised at the posts here today, taking issue with networks and shows that don’t pay what they consider proper deference to Democrats. No individual or institution is above criticism or parody. That’s not how this country rolls — at least, not yet.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

33. Welcome to DU !

[ForgedCrank]

36. It is

a comedy show, after all.

[treestar]

37. do they have the ratings they had then?

by now there are so many more choices what to watch.

So their influence could not be the same.

[SYFROYH]

38. Everybody must get stoned.

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Honestly, I think criticizing SNL or any comedian for teasing our president or any president is weak sauce. They dont work for the president. We get to vote with our viewership.

[iemanja]

48. They think the role of media is to promote Democrats

It's absurd. We had a thread similar to this yesterday.

[Mariana]

63. "We get to vote with our viewership."

The OP intends to continue to watch SNL.

[ismnotwasm]

39. Meh.

[Celerity]

45. yawn

[iemanja]

47. Like they did Trump, Bush and Reagan

and every president since the show's inception.

[senseandsensibility]

51. How have their ratings been

lately?

[miyazaki]

55. Doubt you want to live in a land where you can't slam the president,

or whatever power is in charge. It's cringe worthy, but so is much of what passes for tv nowadays.

[Raine]

56. and before President Carter they went after President Ford

etc etc they go after who ever is President.

[Generic Brad]

57. Examples, please

Biden said "Two words. Made In America". That one Colin Jost said seems to have put everyone's knickers in a twist. Too bad it was a direct quote and was funny.

If they are slamming him, we need examples. Otherwise you're just throwing a match in a room filled with gasoline.

[mahina]

62. I agree and I hope you tell them. Comments on social media

Are at least read