Posted on 12/15/2002 4:56:24 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Well I enjoyed SNL last night, thought algore was pretty good and at the same time felt very uncomfortable that man was so close to being our president.
I think with a little practice he could be a decent actor, at least as good as Martin Sheen and then could take over on the West Wing as president. I'm much more comfortable with algore not being the real president, but playing one on TV. Then we would all be spared him as prez and he could get it out of his system and leave us alone for a change!
Mountaineer, from your post on the last thread... "But at the end of this I want to have some bread crumbs leading back to my dignity."
Too late... even though I thought he did a good job and was funny, he's lost all dignity after that. Being the host of SNL is just not presidential.
I can't describe however, the feeling I had at the opening skit where al and the tipster are lip locked for what seemed like an eternity. My skin was crawling is the best I can do. ewww ewww ewwwwww!
Stop brillo-ing your face
and don't fear the dentist,
he's our friend.
Here are some links to some reviews on the gorey one.
[snip]
Funny Gore and Serious Gore smoothly took turns all week until they crashed into each other outside the studio of the NBC "Today" program in New York on Thursday.
Still wearing the fluffy red Santa hat he had donned to show his holiday spirit, Mr. Gore answered a question from Matt Lauer about Senator Lott and segregation. The former vice president gave a stern, thoughtful indictment of the Senate majority leader's praise for Strom Thurmond's 1948 Dixiecrat presidential campaign — while looking like a loony Dr. Seuss creature crashing an office Christmas party. [snip] NYTimes
Al Gore becomesTrent Lott for laughs/UPI
Gore bids for laughs on 'Saturday Night Live'/CNN
It just occurred to me, with all this talk of Lott, could be a distraction for algore's appearance last night. Make Lott look like a racist, please don't notice that a possible presidential candidate is playing media hog and made himself undignified on SNL.
OMG!!!!! Algore did a scene in a hot tub!!!!! The trauma of seeing algore shirtless stunned me into forgetting all about it. Dear Lord, he had a set of man boobs!!!!!
If we could only get a picture of that and when he decides to run for prez flash that everywhere, there's not a heterosexual woman in this country that would vote for him!
What's in those cigars Alec Baldwin smokes? The actor has a grand idea where to put a new Yankee stadium: Ground Zero. According to U.S. News & World Report, Baldwin is waging a PR campaign to put the stadium downtown, calling his idea "a mix of the commemorative and the practical."
Practical would be putting on a muzzle on Baldwin.
Every game, suggests the actor, could begin with a moment of silence. Survivors of 9/11 and members of NYPD and FDNY would get discounted tickets. When the actor approached the Yankees with the idea, they raised eyebrows - and rejected it. But Baldwin isn't giving up the fight to bring attention to his political career, or to the project.
"It's the most interesting thing I have heard," Baldwin tells the weekly, defending the idea. "It's the best thing for the city." NY Daily News
More on the Goron moron:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Adding NBC's "Saturday Night Live" to his media blitz, former Vice President Al Gore donned a wig and gave a Democratic rendition of Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott trying to recover from his now notorious remarks about Strom Thurmond's presidential run.
As SNL impressionist Darrell Hammond hosted a mock MSNBC "Hardball" public affairs show as host Chris Matthews, Gore was introduced as Lott. "Nice to be here, Chris," Gore/Lott said, wearing a wig resembling Lott's hair.
"Sen. Lott, high ranking members of both parties are calling on you to step down after your comments about Sen. Thurmond who was a segregationist. Should your bonehead behavior spell trouble for Republicans?," Hammond/Matthews asked.
Gore/Lott replied, blithely misstating Lott's position. "When I said our country wouldn't have all these problems if Strom Thurmond had been elected president it had nothing to do with segregation. I simply meant," he continued, "that things would have been better if Thurmond were president because he would have kept white people and black people separate." [Oh stop!]
As the audience laughed, Gore continued, "I just hate it when liberals take me out of context like that."
Replied Hammond/Matthews, "Why do I get the feeling you thought "Birth of a Nation" was the feelgood hit of the summer?"
The skit did not spare Democrats either, with a make-believe lead strategist for the Democratic National Committee making clear with comedic intensity her party holds positions identical to those of Republicans. "Republicans want to go to war with Iraq," she said. "We only support such a war."
Then Gore/Lott was given the opportunity to restate his earlier remarks, saying, "It has come to my attention that some of my comments about Strom Thurmond may have been construed as racially insensitive. Let me apologize." Then he went on to underline instead his supposed insensitivities.
"I meant no disrespect to any white people," Gore/Lott said. "I myself am a white man and some if not all of my best friends are white. Let me make this clear. As long as I am in my office we will leave no white person behind." [No, I mean it. My sides are splitting]
Replied Hammond/Matthews, "Senator, you're shedding a lot of light on the situation. Unfortunately the light is coming from a cross you just set afire."
The spokeswoman for the DNC then said, "The Democratic Party condemns Sen. Lott's comments. We believe they are deplorable and worthy of censure. Unless somehow it turns out that everyone's cool with what he said, in which case, so are we."
.... A skit shot on the studio location of the weekly "West Wing" television drama had Gore sitting in the replicated Oval Office, asking the staff to pretend he was president and finally remaining in the chief executive's chair for hours after everyone else had left and the set was closed down. full story, UPI
Actor Alec Baldwin arrives at the Barrymore Theatre in New York, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2002, to attend the opening night of the Broadway play, 'Imaginary Friends,' which portrays the battles between playwright Lillian Hellman and novelist Mary McCarthy. What a fathead.
Baldwin is waging a PR campaign to put the stadium downtown, calling his idea "a mix of the commemorative and the practical."
"It's the most interesting thing I have heard," Baldwin tells the weekly, defending the idea.
Luckily for NY, he's the only one listening to himself.
Hey I like that idea!! It WOULD spare us, because we wouldn't HAVE to watch him!
San Francisco 49ers defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield practices with ballerina Ilana Goldman during a rehearsal for All-Star Night at the Nutcracker at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 12, 2002. Stubblefield was among a group of San Francisco Bay Area athletes and other celebrities that performed Friday night in the Oakland Ballet's Christmas production. (AP Photo/ Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Actor Sean Penn (news) walks past a picture of President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) during his visit to the al-Mansour children's hospital in Baghdad, Dec. 13, 2002. Penn, who is on a three-day visit to Baghdad, has been critical of U.S. threats of war with Iraq and said on Dec. 15, 2002, that a war can be avoided. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)
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