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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking News: Alec Baldwin is refusing to leave SNL...
and wont hand over his dressing room to Jim Carrey.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)no show tonight, sad I am
Deb
(3,742 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)Sorry: he sounds right and looks right, but his antics are pure Jim Carrey, and have so very little to do with Biden. Indeed, I think future cold opens should avoid politics except only where necessary. They are not in general very funny. There are so many things in the world and in life to lampoon ... broaden your horizons, SNL writers.
liberalla
(9,238 posts)A major weakness in this short season...
Stinky The Clown
(67,790 posts)irisblue
(32,968 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Alex Moffat? Beck Bennett?
Biden certainly isn't hyperactive like Carrey.
TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)oldsoftie
(12,531 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Keenan Thompson is the best, they'd better not lose him.
Weekend Update is horrible and a shadow what it was a few years ago.
Kate McKinnon's characters all seem the same - her depiction of Rudy Giuliani, Jeff Sessions, and Ruth Bader Ginzburg are all bizarrely similar, and EVERY character of hers has a tinge of a southern accent. Not funny at all.
Jim Carrey is okay, but he really overacts too much.
calimary
(81,220 posts)And at first, it actually took me a moment to realize that Jim Carrey was playing Biden. Didn't look a bit like him. Even with the makeup et al.
George II
(67,782 posts).....it got old quick.
Talitha
(6,582 posts)relayerbob
(6,544 posts)Not a Jim Carrey fan. He's always Jim Carrey, no matter what he does. He does a pretty awful impression of Joe, IMO.
karin_sj
(808 posts)They really need to find someone else that is less wacky and manic.
Karma13612
(4,552 posts)Is too far off.
He is making Joe appear really demented, and that just isnt the case.
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)Regular life, as regular as can be managed during the pandemic, will be less political by default with Trump out of the picture. Hopefully, the writers will notice and move on. Steven Colbert and Seth Meyers will need to branch out too, and are probably happy to do so.
AirmensMom
(14,642 posts)I like Jim Carey, but not as Joe Biden.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)No matter who he plays or what he does, he's still always Jim Carrey. His portrayals are tedious.
His female equivalent is Jennifer Aniston. No matter what the role, she's always just Jennifer Aniston.
MoonchildCA
(1,301 posts)Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)with making his hand like a gun and aiming it. I've never seen Joe do that.
enid602
(8,614 posts)Eugene Robinson said yesterday on MSNBC that trump is just another Covid19 statistic; he got sick, he lost his job and now hes being evicted.
liberalla
(9,238 posts)PJMcK
(22,031 posts)Thanks.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)PatSeg
(47,399 posts)lisa58
(5,755 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,513 posts)Thanks for the laugh.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,325 posts)lastlib
(23,213 posts)(*--"You Owe Me A New Keyboard"
Funny, funny!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)If he becomes a permanent fixture at SNL, I'd be pleased!
His timing was great in this skit (not playing Trump):
question everything
(47,470 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)Good one. He should do that tonight.
On edit:
I see there's no show tonight. Curses!
ffr
(22,669 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)Did you think that up, Brother Buzz?
Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)"Stated to me for a fact. I only tell it as I got it. I am willing to believe it. I can believe any thing"
lunatica
(53,410 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)backtoblue
(11,343 posts)Cha
(297,154 posts)besides Jim Carrey, btw!
Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)he would be a force to be reckoned with.
Until then, central casting could find dozens of actors that could do a better job.
That being said, I believe Carrey's role in 'Man on the Moon' took it's toll on his psyche and mental health, and he may be a little reluctant to invest the energy to do it again.
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)When Carrey playing Biden was asked a question, Baldwin loudly started spewing lies like loud mouth tRUMP, until the moderator spoke... Prompting Baldwin to frown like tRUMP and loudly say,
'See he didn't even answer the question.'
That was fucking priceless!!!!!
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)For a show that, at times, staggered along and often wasn't very funny, it still manages to park one in the bleachers from time to time.