Reply #40: Oh and by the way [View All]

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SNL has been mercilessly cruel to Al Gore. It's beyond reprehensible. It seems like every week they trot him out as the loser, dork that nobody wants around. He calls up Kerry to offer him advice, and is shunned. He tries to call the Bush squad to give them advice on how to run the country, and they're like, "Later, loser." It's infantile, and unfunny ... and incredibly mean.

I'm also convinced SNL is the reason Al Gore's not in the White House. While most people thought that Gore had won his first debate, the media spin machine was able to morph Gore's rather tame performance into the performance of a pathological liar and asshole. However, it wouldn't have stuck unless SNL had cemented this impression in the mind of the popular culture.

I also agree, the Gore SNL episode was brilliant. Expectedly, though, the funny sketches were the ones that the SNL writing crew had nothing to do with. The Bachelor sketch was written by his daughter (who also wrote for Futurama), and, as was mentioned, Franken also had a big role to play.