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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: eskimo2 on September 22, 2008, 08:24:02 PM
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Like most (51) weeks out of the year I didn't watch SNL this weekend. Apparently its all over the news that they did a sketch where a reporter suggested that Todd Palin has sex with his daughters. Most online reports agree that it was over the top. SNL has had all copies removed from YouTube; they normally don't care. They also haven't posted the clip on their own site. A search on the net for this clip shows that it's very hard to find. Apparently SNL agrees that it wa over the top. I did find one on Breitbart: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=179063
I think the sketch poked more fun at the NY Times and their reporters as well as common and funny beliefs about Alaska. I actually thought it was pretty darn funny for a SNL sketch; funnier than anything that you'd see in a typical SNL show.
On a related note, the opening was pretty funny as well. McCain approves a series of ads with pretty twisted logic:
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/mccain-approves-open/669582/
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SNL saw its prime back when Belushi and the bunch were on. Since then it has gone downhill and straight underground.
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I agree with you eskimoe...
That skit was pretty funny and roasts the NYT pretty well... it wasn't really about Mr. Palin at all... too bad they wrecked the skit with it though.
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(http://www.fortythree.com/Stencils/Public/BusinessMan2004Campaign/jump_shark_proof.jpg)
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LOOK its Fonzie! :rock
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SNL is far from shark jumping waters. It's next test will be whem Amy Pohler leaves.
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SNL is far from shark jumping waters. It's next test will be whem Amy Pohler leaves.
Come on RPM. It's been shark week at SNL since about 1979. Occasionally, for a year or two here and there, it manages to not jump the shark as frequently with most of its skits.
But then, I was always much more of an SCTV fan, and admittedly, seldom manage to watch more than 1.5 shows total per season to confirm that, "yep, still suckin' it up."
Charon
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I thought the skit was funny and aimed at the NYT, not the Palins.
Incidental, I get called about twice a year by the NYT asking if I would like to subscribe. I always say the same thing "Thank you, I have enough pulp fiction."
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I disagree Charon. Sure, there's a lot of lame sketches you have to wade thru to get the gold. But it's there often enough to keep me watching.
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if you watched SNL in the late 70's like I did and are still watching it today .. maybe something ain't quite right with ya, ya think?
don't see a sober 50 year old sitting up late to catch the crap they call humor these days ...
some things are best grown out of imo
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Ah yeah, as pointed out that was about the media and if anyone got all hung up about the Palin reference probably meant they probably didn't get the point anyhow
Tronsky
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Mad TV is funnier.
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I havent watched SNL for going on 2 decades. They try too hard and come up short.
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Mad TV is funnier.
With the exception of 1 or 2 skits from their entire running season of this show, MadTV is right up their with Maury and Psychic infomercials.
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Ah yeah, as pointed out that was about the media and if anyone got all hung up about the Palin reference probably meant they probably didn't get the point anyhow
Tronsky
The problem is that there are still quite a few who believe everything the NYT prints and there are probably many who watched that and thought, yeah, that's probably true. SNL knows how gullible a lot of their audience is.
Of course the problem isn't that there are a lot of gullible people, it's that they get to vote.
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if you watched SNL in the late 70's like I did and are still watching it today .. maybe something ain't quite right with ya, ya think?
don't see a sober 50 year old sitting up late to catch the crap they call humor these days ...
some things are best grown out of imo
I've watched SNL since the first season. I think you may be looking back with rose colored glasses. There were plenty of bad sketches then, too.
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Yeah, even in the beginning SNL usually had about 45 minutes of ideas (counting the music). Unfortunately, it's a 90-minute show.
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I went out and bought the complete 2nd season of SNL. This was Bill Murray's 1st season and still had all of the originals except Chevy Chase.
I have come to the conclusion that they were much funnier after a couple of joints.
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I've watched SNL since the first season. I think you may be looking back with rose colored glasses. There were plenty of bad sketches then, too.
Got to agree there. I've got the first season on DVD and there really isn't that much funny stuff; Chevy trips and falls, HAHA. The most funny thing that year was when Loren Michael offered the Beatles $3k (I think) to come on the show (you can split it however you want, we don't care, you can give less to Ringo). That was timeless.
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SNL saw its prime back when Belushi and the bunch were on. Since then it has gone downhill and straight underground.
Ditto.
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Dangit, let me just link to the last thread we argued about SNL in. Anyone remember which one it was? I'm sure it had something to do with Palin.
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I've watched SNL since the first season. I think you may be looking back with rose colored glasses. There were plenty of bad sketches then, too.
That's why I was a big fan of SCTV. They had some off shows, some off skits here or there, and a few off transition periods with different network formats but by and large the episodes still make me laugh from start to finish. I read Dave Thomas's book on the whole production and it was quite a story. Stuck in the Great White North with little budget, no distractions and virtually no network oversight. Just go out and make some television... The Great White North segment, which Thomas and Moranis were actually a bit embarrassed about its success (compared to the rest of the work), was apparently added to meet some CBC requirement for "native content" so they created two beer swilling, semi-dimwitted hosers to represent Canada :)
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Kids in the Hall has a couple of really good skits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-brQ-2XqTU
or that a comedy sketch has to have a ending...lol