For years I was hoping SNL's howlingly unfunny slump would make it gradually fade into nonexistence, but now all of a sudden I can't seem to flip on the news or visit a news site without hearing about Tina whatsherface doing Palin as if its some sort of hard-hitting breaking news alert we can't live without. Am I missing something here? Since when did some person on SNL playing some person become newsworthy all of a sudden? What the hell is going on??? Who the hell cares??!?!?!?!?!?
CNN's American edition online is full of bullshit stories picked for popularity not substance. Switch to their international edition website or to Fox's. I am confident Sarah Palin will go on SNL and confront Tina Fey and McCain's poll numbers will go up like penis.
quote: Originally posted by DaShi
I agree with Darius. Had they been comparing Sarah Palin to Hitler, then it would be funny.
I didn't say the Palin impersonation wasn't funny. I said SNL as a whole is not funny. And even supposing it hypothetically were funny, that still wouldn't make it worthy of a weekly news segment on major news networks.
I didn't say the Palin impersonation wasn't funny. I said SNL as a whole is not funny. And even supposing it hypothetically were funny, that still wouldn't make it worthy of a weekly news segment on major news networks.
Then your complaint doesn't make sense. They're not talking about SNL as a whole, just Tina Fey's Palin.
Logically Tina Fey is a subset of the unfunny whole, ergo she's also unfunny. But that's not even the main point. I want to know why it's newsworthy even supposing it's funny.
quote: Originally posted by Darius871
Logically Tina Fey is a subset of the unfunny whole, ergo she's also unfunny. But that's not even the main point. I want to know why it's newsworthy even supposing it's funny.
Someone just enlighten me so I can move on.
Because Fey does political satire, and because for the last couple of weeks, Palin has been leaving reself open to ridicule.
E.g. On the last SNL, "Palin" comes out to debate "Biden" and begins by asking him, "Can I call you Joe?"
Biden replies (as he did in real life): "Sure"
"Good. 'Cause I got a couple of zingers where I call you 'Joe'."
While SNL is doing what they allways have, parody of politicians, it is simply a way to point out what is a shameful display of future leaders, none, not one of the four is a great leader...
All have a multitude of shortcomings, and make excellent fodder for the news as well as comics to snag a few laughs off of
I been watching SNL since its inception and is very humorous at times and at times not so funny
I also think its a shame when half the highlines of the CNN are about the same subject, different spin
quote: Originally posted by Theben
SNL would be a lot better if they cut it down to 1 hour or less.
SNL would be a lot better if they had female hosts everyweek. And every sketch took place either at the beach or in the quarter's for some rich guy's french maids.
Seriously though, I don't think the problem is so much length, I think it is too many commercials, and most importantly, the writing sucks balls.
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