Posted on 11/09/2018 7:30:07 AM PST by Kaslin
NBC's "Saturday Night Live" is taking on a very sour look. Alec Baldwin didn't appear with his tired Trump impression on the Saturday before the midterms, perhaps because he reportedly punched a man in the face in New York's Greenwich Village in a parking spot dispute.
"SNL" tried to joke its way out of that mess at the end of its opening skit with their star Kate McKinnon. "When we come back, an update from disgraced former actor Alec Baldwin -- seen here molesting a young Boy Scout," showing a picture of a classic 1994 "Canteen Boy" skit with Adam Sandler.
McKinnon was impersonating Fox News host Laura Ingraham talking on "The Ingraham Angle" about the "caravan" of immigrants marching through Mexico, "live from the Arizona border, where a vicious caravan of dozens, maybe millions, of illegal immigrants is headed straight for you and your grandchildren."
Other Fox News stars kept introducing video of the immigrants, although the footage came from zombie movies and nature movies of crabs. Who is NBC to mock other people for faking the news? That's shameless after they spread the unreliable Brett Kavanaugh rape accusations of disgraced Michael Avenatti's client Julie Swetnick, among others.
Then, during the "Weekend Update" fake-news sketch, Pete Davidson announced, "There are some pretty gross people running for office this year," and proceeded to mock the looks of (mostly) Republican candidates. Like a middle-schooler, he suggested Florida Gov. Rick Scott "looks like someone tried to whittle Bruce Willis out of a penis."
And then it happened.
Davidson, the loud-mouthed spoiled punk, mocked Texas congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw, a veteran who lost his eye in Afghanistan and now wears an eye patch. "You may be surprised to hear he's a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hit man in a porno movie," Davidson proclaimed, to uproarious laughter. "I'm sorry, I know he lost his eye in war or whatever." Or whatever? Davidson lost his firefighter father in the 9/11 terrorist attack when he was 7. Dan Crenshaw lost an eye in Afghanistan fighting the same kind of terrorists who killed his father. For the love of God, doesn't he deserve better than this?
Crenshaw was a class act in a Twitter response: "Good rule in life: I try hard not to offend; I try harder not to be offended. That being said, I hope @nbcsnl recognizes that vets don't deserve to see their wounds used as punchlines for bad jokes." Crenshaw has since won his congressional race.
We could make a long list of midterm candidates NBC won't mock for their looks, and that would include transgender gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist, D-VT There is no way they would ridicule Rep. Ilhan Omar, D- Minn., for wearing her Muslim headwear. So why can't a veteran be spared jokes about losing an eye fighting for his country?
Then consider this: In 2016, Davidson posted a picture on the internet that he'd gotten a large tattoo on his leg of "his hero" ... Hillary Clinton. He said to her, "Thanks for being such a bada-- and one of the strongest people in the universe."
So, to summarize: Crenshaw the Afghan war hero is "pretty gross." And Clinton, who lied about being under fire in Bosnia, is the real "badass."
Davidson tried to end the skit in self-defense, noting he looked like a Dr. Seuss character in a prison jumpsuit. So those truth-tellers at The New York Times buried the lede as they wrote up the obnoxious show with this headline: "'SNL' Jokes About the Midterms, and Pete Davidson Pokes Fun at Himself."
The advertisers included Amazon, Microsoft and Verizon, and appearing just after Davidson's mess were L.L. Bean, Christian Dior and Paramount (with two movie ads). These merchants should think more than twice about the garbage they're making possible.
I did not see the skit, as I do not watch SNL (or any leftwing TV comedy shows). But from reading the transcript, it sounds like the “humor” they were going for was that it portrayed the Davidson “character” as extremely shallow and probably too stupid to vote. The fact that Crenshaw’s sacrifice was lost on him was maybe supposed to be what was funny.
I am old enough to remember when SNL was funny.
Said it before on other similar threads, but watching 1970s made episodes of “The Electric Company” (yes, even with Morgan Freeman in them) would be my preference over SNL.
Belushi, Aykroid, Carvey, Murphy, Hartman, et al, were real talents. The current crop can go to lib hell.
We actually DVR’d SNL up until a few years ago. When we realized that we never ever watched the show, we stopped the DVRing. SNL used to skewer both sides of politics and it was usually funny. Now it is only Republican hate all the time. Where have you gone, Lorne Michaels? Funny used to be important to you.
The media is directly at fault for fomenting the extreme division in this country. When the shooting starts, they think they’ll get to talk about it on TV, when in fact, they will be among the primary targets.
SNL hasn’t been funny in a decade or more.
boy, you must be really old, like me.
SNL ceased being funny and relatively innocent the day the Iranian hostages were released.
Do you realize that a decade is only 10 years? It’s more like a generation which is 30 years.
ditto here.
I used to watch SNL when it was funny...but I haven’t tuned in for about 40 years.
I remember when it was 90 minutes of good TV...The party would adjourn to the living room to watch.
Did you also watch a show as a kid called Zoom?
"Send it to Zoom, Boston, MA, 02134, SEND IT TO ZOOM!"
I picked up on their ‘I Hate America’ shtick LOOOONG ago and I can say that never in my life have I watched that program.
NEVER
Zoom is a mighty strange name for a kid!
What where the scum doing tonight? Taking a victory lap?
You could pay me to watch but I’d need about $200 per skit.
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