Posted on 09/13/2012 2:09:53 PM PDT by drewh
Comedy genius Lorne Michaels of "Saturday Night Live" fame still can't find anything funny about the president.
But Mr. Michaels acknowledged that Mr. Obama has been a challenge. What is his comedy hook?
“So far we haven’t found it. My joke is always that he’s the first Canadian president,” said Mr. Michaels, a Toronto native.
“He wants to think it through, do it in the fairest way possible and be thoughtful. And be a little distant, which I totally identify with, obviously.”
Naturally, Michaels can't wait to pounce on Clint Eastwood's recent "empty chair" speech at the RNC.
“We have at least three different takes on Clint,” he said, referring to Clint Eastwood’s memorable colloquy with furniture. (Bill Hader will play him.)
Today's liberal comedians simply cannot find any flaws with Obama, which speaks to a vision so muddled it boggles the brain.
More importantly, they did see the impact Tina Fey's impression of Sarah Palin had on the 2008 presidential race.
Comedy matters in our pop culture age. And, by golly, comedians don't want to tell any joke that will endanger the Age of Obama getting a four-year extension.
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Today's liberal comedians simply do not want to find any flaws with Obama, which speaks to a vision so muddled it boggles the brain.
AW, C’MON, MICHAELS! HE’S WALKING TALKING STEREOTYPE! YOU CAN’T FIND ANYTHING BECAUSE YOU ARE BLIND AS A BAT!............
1. Fabricate a giant paper mache t*rd of appropriate color, designed to fit the requisite actor.
2. Install appropiate fog generating apparatus to mimic the smell of incompetence and sleeze coming from the man-mimicing piece of excrement.
3. Put the t*rd on the t*rd imitator.
4. For a script, simply read anything the idiot has said in the last ten years.
Mission accomplished.
He can’t figure out how to make fun of Obama’s indecisiveness or giving aid and comfort to the enemy or how he enthusiastically announces Ramadan, but sounds like somebody has poked him in the ribs when he says anything about Christmas or Easter?
Im sure other Freepers can bring stuff up, but Lorne Michaels is an idiot if he honestly can’t figure out how to ridicule Obama.
Why doesn’t he give Eastwood a call? Or Sarah Palin. For that matter, bring on Sarah Palin and have her mock Obama AND Fey.
Lorne, talk to Clint Eastwood.
IIRC, there actually was an episode that had a skit mocking 0. They pulled the skit before it aired. Can’t remember what (one of millions of things possible) they were mocking him for, but I seem to recall it got canned. No can havie that.
Mr. Eastwood didn’t seem to have any trouble with it.
http://www.ijreview.com/2012/05/5080-snl-pulls-skit-mocking-obama-in-favor-of-ridiculing-fox-news/
Just have a guy that sort of looks like obama, and routinely runs skits. You can have him do things like try to get a library card, and they ask for forms of identification, and he calls them racist.
How about his stacato way he “speaks”=
bada bada bada BAda Bada BADA
bada,bada,bada, BAda,BAda BABA BABA
Lets see Lorne:
How bout a return of Hanz and Franz to try to help out the girly man?
Hen pecked husband hiding everything she deplores by doing them during special Oval Office meetings angle?
How bout a return of the choom gang and economic/foreign policy decisions made of bags of munchies?
How bout going before the NAACP and denouncing his white side and then hitting a Klucker rally to denounce his black side at a convention center where both groups are meeting simultaneously?
I’m not that talented for comedy, but that list is already better than anything your hacks can come up with
Excellent ideas. Sarah said something yesterday...paraphrasing...”he can’t see Egypt and Libya from his house” - it’s a start. This whole ME fiasco gives them a whole host to script.
Where Obama overuses words like HOPE and CHANGE.
Telepromptor messes up and tricks him into saying things he wouldn't otherwise say.
He gets caught talking into a mirror pretending to be Ronald Reagan.
The ghost of Woodrow Wilson visits him one night and berates him for not being progressive enough.
The ghosts of Washington, Lincoln and Reagan meet him on a golf course when he is alone and kick him in the @$$.
(That last one was for me.)
I think the fact of the matter is they are afraid to do so. SNL is NBC and they want to keep their jobs...............
That jackoff and his entire show is in the bag for Zero, and before that was already partisan media shills. Thanks drewh.
Why doesn’t he give Eastwood a call? Or Sarah Palin. For that matter, bring on Sarah Palin and have her mock Obama AND Fey.
How about this. They co host, and bring their own skits.
I’m sure they won’t ( unlike you) have a problem regarding what to do.
What about Obama throwing a ball like a little girl? Funny as hell. Or slurping ice cream cones like an idiot. Or not being able to hold a leash while walking a dog? Or getting hugged by a man while his feet are off the ground and his arms are out like a schoolgirl? Sheesh, the guy is a walking cartoon character rife with gaffes worth lampooning. Then there are the stupid comments Obama makes, rivaling those of Biden. Open your eyes, SNL!
Lorne Michaels oughta hang it up.
Thirty Rock is about the lamest thing I ever watched (not any more!), Amy whats-her-basset in that other show is even worse!
Anybody remember Frasier? Cheers? Third Rock from the Sun? Friends? Anybody remember back when Thursdays were funny?
Not lately...
Does anyone even watch those untalented hacks at SNL any longer?
It’s a conundrum. Any parody is bound to fall short of the living joke called 0bama.
what his fairy stance, him throwing a ball , riding like a girl, 57 states, Austrian is a language.
I could go on but I;m betting that none of the above was even heard or seen.
Do him as he is, a guy with a good vocabulary, a good delivery, who talks and carries on and on incessantly, but says absolutely NOTHING of substance. Think of the governor in the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, except he looks and speaks better.
Done right, that would be hilarious.
They are afraid because he is Democrat and half black.
They don’t want to be called racist or to offend they buddies in Hollywood.
Simple. Pretend he’s Republican, conservative and 100% white.
Now, THAT would be a blast!
Stereotype of what, though?
Why don’t they do a skit on Obama’s Bro and Fundraiser Jay-Z and his War on Women? Ever heard his lyrics? They’re laced with “bitch” and “hoe.” I don’t get it. If a Republican had such a fundraiser as a friend or as a guest to the White House there’d be no end of the criticism. Obama listens to that filth on his iPod. Why does his support of this “artist” get a pass? I know that those lyrics can’t be aired in prime time, let alone in polite society, but all the same this should be more generally known.
I too can’t think of a single way to mock the coked-out muslim fembo with a goony-goo-goo wife who spends all his time golfing!
Any comedian that cant make fun of this guy needs to stop calling themselves one.
Carson, Will Rogers, and Bob Hope were able to give it to both sides. People still have no real idea what their political IDs were. They were THAT good.
But these no-talent hacks are the limp 1-inch d*cks of the profession. More worried about if they will lose Twitter followers and Facebook flunkies if they dare make a crack at an EASY target.
Mockery #2: A president always looking for a reason to play basketball, play golf, get high (Yo, Choom Gang shoutout!), get some PT from Reggie Love instead of doing work.
Mockery #3: A president always ridiculously against anything that is overtly American. Example - Obama: "Does the flag have to be Red, White and Blue? Why can't it be Red, Red and Red?"
Come on, Lorne. You certainly found it easy to mock every president since Gerald Ford. What's the problem? Or are you afraid that you might be called a racist and lose your progressive bona fides?
“Comedy genius Lorne Michaels of “Saturday Night Live” fame still can’t find anything funny about the president.”
That’s because he’s an aging lefty tool!
2. Obama is on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader quiz show. The question is, "How many US states are there?"
3. Obama can't choose which pants to wear. Spends hours asking people which pair has the better crease. Room full of US Generals wait.
4. Obama sneaks junk food and cigarettes behind Michelle's back. Dog goes missing.
5. Obama gets swarmed by flies during speech.
6. Obama bows deeply to everyone that walks near him. He meets a traditional Geisha and the two of them bow to each other for hours. It becomes a competition.
7. Secret Service agents ridicule Obama's performance on the golf course behind his back.
8. Obama gives interview and goes off script. Journalist desperately struggles to cover for him.
Just have him in a meeting quoting communist manifesto lines.
Have a fawning press pool asking him questions:
“Mr. President, when you walk on water what shoes do you wear?”
Mr President, when you feed the multitudes do you convert the bread into whole wheat?
Mr President is the wine you make out of water, red or white?
Liberals won’t mock their pathetic little god.
Lorne Michaels needs to admit that the ONLY reason he doesn’t go after Urkel is that his own dark, nagging personal prejudices against a black man in authority would overwhelm his psyche. Psychologically he can’t overcome his deep seated personal racism that equates ridiculing a man because he is black being the same as satirizing a man who just so happens to be black.
Quite honestly, I can not remember meeting a die hard liberal that wasn’t a raving closet racist.
An empty chair seemed to garner a positive response from the audience...
He could go after Obama with all the enthusiasm that the "Ron Burgundy" guy went after Bush (I forgot his name and it's not worth looking it up), but he doesn't want to do that.
One (perhaps minor) additional factor, though: if you're shooting in New York with a live audience you do have to take their attitudes and prejudices into account.
“My joke is always that he’s the first Canadian president,”
I don’t even know where to start here. Lorne Michaels has been so far removed from Canada from all of his years with the “elite Hollywood left” that he wouldn’t recognize the place anymore. Comparing the muslim prince Obama to any Canadian is really offensive, but the first thought that went through my mind was our current Prime Minister. Obama is not fit to tie Stephen Harper’s shoes. Stay in the states Lorne, we don’t want you back.
How about a sketch where all the journalists fawn all over him, do whatever he says, carry his water, slide on the Presidential kneepads every five minutes, and lie constantly to try to hide his stupidity and incompetence?
That would be really funny. If it weren’t the truth.
Do him as he is, a guy with a good vocabulary
Good Vocabulary? The idiot who said “Corpse - Man” has a “good vocabulary? YMBSM!
Goood point!!!
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