I’m curious what you found funny in this skit.
I thought that besides being one-sided from the get-go, it was almost painfully lame in writing and delivery.
“I thought that besides being one-sided from the get-go, it was almost painfully lame in writing and delivery.”
Pretty much describes decades of SNL.
Agree completely. SNL rewrote the information so as to prop up the Bamster. Wasn’t funny either.
thank you....I think it is really hard for liberals to be funny when doing this kind of ‘writing’. For some reason they feel the need to make the liberal look smart and aloof and the other side look like red necked racist schmucks
I thought the writing was typically lazy and unimaginative for the modern SNL. I didn’t laugh much, and never loudly. Out of the first 3 debate sketches, the only thing I found genuinely funny were some of Biden’s lines in the V.P. debate.
They spend a lot of time in these sketches simply quoting what happened in the real debate. That’s lazy, unimaginative and not funny. They don’t introduce any new ideas of their own. A great parody sketch should start out at the beginning copying and establishing the source material. Then with each gag it should get more unpredictable and absurd. Every question and line of dialogue shouldn’t simply be a mirror image of what was in the original broadcast. How about instead of copying the idea of the debate so directly, set the whole thing in a boxing ring and have them trading verbal barbs as well as real punches?
And when they do introduce a new idea in these sketches, they act like it’s the greatest idea since sliced bread and beat it into the ground, without building on it. In this case that would be the idea of Romney and Obama acting like street-fighters. A good sketch would have a lot more ideas than that or it would push that idea to the limit and actually have Romney and Obama rolling on the ground brawling by the end.
Here’s an example of a classic political sketch, one of their funniest ever, Dana Carvey doing the McLaughlin Group. You can see how the absurdity builds throughout the sketch. By the end, it has its own ideas and identity to it and is not just a straightforward “riff” on the original show.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/279531