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If Saturday Night Live isn't going to take down Trump, what's the point of Saturday Night Live?
The Verge ^ | 10/04/2016 | Kaitlyn Tiffany

Posted on 10/05/2016 1:08:55 PM PDT by adorno

In a recent interview on the Politico podcast "Off Message," SNL's Weekend Update co-hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost defended Donald Trump, saying he's "super smart" and "super hardworking," and implying he doesn't deserve all the negative attention he gets. Che also said, "Let's not pretend that this guy is a mutant, you know, and he's the most evil, racist, mutant piece of crap that ever walked. Listen, there's probably somebody in your building way worse than Donald Trump, and you buy bagels from him, and it's fine."

The argument that there are "worse" racists is blatantly stupid. None of those worse racists have a shot at becoming president in the next month. (I can't believe we even have to say these things!) Che is a successful comedy writer / performer who presumably has some training in writing and performing satire. He's probably received some amount of education on the history of political satire, which has been used as a subversive counterweight to power since the beginning of governments.

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To: Montana_Sam

“But, then, that applies to most progressives, doesn’t it?”

She’s actually one of the happier ones compared to two piles of garbage I no longer associate with.


41 posted on 10/05/2016 2:02:47 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: pburgh01

....and she probably drives a Prius.............


42 posted on 10/05/2016 2:05:28 PM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: adorno

There hasn’t been a point to SNL in decades!


43 posted on 10/05/2016 2:06:54 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: pburgh01

“Tiffany’s resume(Not kidding)”

I don’t know who you are, but I like your style :-)!!!


44 posted on 10/05/2016 2:09:15 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: adorno

Sunday Morning? ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajE8FtWJ6cM


45 posted on 10/05/2016 2:13:25 PM PDT by soycd
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To: wbill
The late 80s cast was still pretty funny. Nothing new or original, but still managed to pull through some decent schtick. "The Sinatra Group" still kills me, though I've seen it 500 times.

I loved the skit where Phil Hartman played Reagan, who would one moment look like friendly Reagan, but as soon as everyone left......."BACK TO WORK!" and showed him orchestrating the whole Iran-Contra thing, even speaking Arabic over the phone.

46 posted on 10/05/2016 2:14:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: adorno

Do people actually watch SNL? I didn’t know it was still on.


47 posted on 10/05/2016 2:14:24 PM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.)
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To: Stevenc131

https://youtu.be/NafrFdBXfrk

There you go.


48 posted on 10/05/2016 2:16:40 PM PDT by j. earl carter
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To: adorno

Well, that cat is out of the transparent bag. (quote Paul Harvey)


49 posted on 10/05/2016 2:24:02 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: adorno

“If Saturday Night Live isn’t going to take down Trump, what’s the point of Saturday Night Live?”

Uh, make people laugh? But, hey, that ship has already sailed anyway.


50 posted on 10/05/2016 2:43:31 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: pburgh01
You've got to learn to express yourself and not hold back so much!

"... homely little goo stain ..." - LOL!!

51 posted on 10/05/2016 3:02:15 PM PDT by SFConservative
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To: Red Badger

Is her ‘partner’ named Tiffany Kaitlyn ?


52 posted on 10/05/2016 3:36:32 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: wbill
I'm so elderly that I remember watching SNL with the original cast.

When you are 12 years old, you will laugh like a hyena at such silliness.

Looking back, yeah, Belushi, Radner, Murray, and Aykroyd were funny.

I still get a kick out of their commercial parodies.

Like "Little Chocolate Donuts" making fun of the Bruce Jenner commericals for Wheaties.

They weren't so hot in 1980 with the new cast, Joe Piscopo, and Eddie Murphy excepted.

They hit their stride IMHO, with the Phil Hartman/Dana Carvey years.

The writing became much more polished, and they really went for the laughs.

NOT politics, per se.

I admit I've never liked Will Ferrell.

Even though his GW Bush wasn't really that mean-spirited.

They just poked fun at the guy.

Dana Carvey actually became friends with GHW Bush.

Ferrell has said that he despises GW Bush, and refused invitations to the WH.

Now, that means you are taking yourself WAY to seriously as a "comedian".

You're just being an a$$hole.

Once it went full retard leftist, it just wasn't as funny anymore.

53 posted on 10/05/2016 3:46:41 PM PDT by boop (Jimi Hendrix: "Are You Deplorable?")
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To: adorno

54 posted on 10/05/2016 4:30:58 PM PDT by Company Man (T R U M P - P E N C E 2 0 1 6)
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To: adorno

They believe they took down Sarah Palin.


55 posted on 10/05/2016 4:36:07 PM PDT by OrangeHoof ("If you cain't run yo own house, you cain't run da White House. Cain't do it." - Michelle Obama)
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To: adorno
I forced myself to read that vat of cliche, spite, and self-aggrandizement to the end and it was a waste of time. I doubt seriously if Kaitlyn Tiffany has ever had an original thought in her life and doubt even more if she can defend the ones she's borrowed.

Actual free speech is a mystery to her and to proggies like her: a mere accusation is enough to justify denial of basic civil rights to anyone she thinks she might disagree with, and no weapon is too foul for their destruction. There is a fundamental childishness to the activist Left that protects them from the consequences of their actions - people consider themselves this infallible mainly due to never having felt the knocks in life that might have taught them better. This one will spend the entire four years of the first Trump administration (haste the day!) shrieking about how unfair the country is for not having indulged her every whim. And will vote accordingly.

56 posted on 10/05/2016 4:56:01 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: pburgh01
Kaitlyn Tiffany MUST have been a stripper sometime!

57 posted on 10/05/2016 5:31:52 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill TWITTER !! Kill FACEBOOK !! Free MILO !!)
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To: dfwgator
(to Jimmy Stewart) "Jimmy.......don't make me have to kill you."

Phil Hartman had a great sense of timing. Even on that horrid "Newsradio" show, he still managed to steal every scene he was in.

What a loss, when he was killed.

58 posted on 10/06/2016 6:33:12 AM PDT by wbill
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To: pburgh01
•Former Editor-in-chief at Kitsch Magazine

Seriously? The very existence of a magazine with that title is appalling.

•Studied Development Sociology at Cornell University

Graduated? Not that it really matters.

That said, she has held more honest jobs than Barack 0bama or Hillary Clinton.

59 posted on 10/06/2016 6:42:29 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: Yaelle
"...And Alec Baldwin plays a mean nasty Trump. Bring back the other guy....

Daryl Hammond (sp).

60 posted on 10/06/2016 12:25:23 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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