SNL: Debate Sketch Now! (eom)

[justiceischeap]

[maseman]

1. Darrell is doing McCain's

penguin arms. How funny.

They are suspending debates for a pie eating contest suggested by McCain.

[question everything]

32. Or for town hall debates in the nude

or to fly into Vaziristan to find bin Ladin.

[Fran Kubelik]

2. Ummm...what's all this Rezko/kickback/bribery shit?

[justiceischeap]

3. Keeping it balanced? (eom)

[Fran Kubelik]

7. Playing the race card?

Bullshit. Obama doesn't do this shit.

[KathieG]

5. yeah...that part wasn't cool

:thumbsdown:

[RichGirl]

18. It's comedy.

[NoodleyAppendage]

4. Spreading bullshit corruption charges...thanks SNL Repuke writers. n/t

J

[Clio the Leo]

19. not to worry ...... Letterman will walk down the street and beat the crap out of them. NT

[MadBadger]

21. You're kidding right?

[Captain Lance Bass]

23. grow up my god.....nt

[AkFemDem]

33. You're joking, right? You're being ironic or playing a role... or something?

You DO get SNL is a commercial enterprise, it makes its money by selling ad space and it does that by appealing to as broad a marketing base as possible. Why would they NOT lampoon Obama somewhat?? All jokes/skits about Palin are not written by democrats and all jokes/skits about Obama are not written by "repukes". It's about making people laugh AND making money- it's not about getting any one person elected.

[The River]

6. Kinda Lame nt

[nam78_two]

8. Ho Ho -Obama plays the race card

:eyes:
In general things like this are funnier if they have some sort of connection to reality.

[CarbonDate]

38. Well, it does.

Obama is black. Therefore, by showing up with dark pigmentation, he played the race card. The audacity of running for President as a black man is, to some people, playing the race card.

[Fran Kubelik]

9. NBC/GE has caved to the bullshit McCain complaints

I guess they need to borrow Amy Poehler's balls too.

[KathieG]

11. Yep

Funny how they have to make up shit about Obama in an attempt to "balance the scales" with the truth about McCain.

[nam78_two]

17. Yep-I watched snl for the first time in years

It is both lame and apparently disconnected from reality-ho ho ho Obama plays the race card :eyes:. Oh well back to Comedy Central and Stewart and Colbert-when they occasionally skewer the Dems it is based in real stuff and not bogus crap like this...

The problem with the bullshit about skewering both sides is that when one side is infinitely worse than the other (and PLEASE don't tell me the Republicans haven't been infinitely worse than the Dems in every way), it is absurd to "skewer both sides equally", just because there are two sides.

[Motown_Johnny]

10. They hit McCain pretty hard

[justiceischeap]

12. I expected something so much better than that. (eom)

[krawhitham]

13. It is not Obama Night Live

They need to go after both, get over it

[GarbagemanLB]

14. Bingo.

[Seen the light]

20. I know right?

SNL has had a huge hand in destroying Sarah Palin, yet one throwaway line by the Obama guy makes DUers start bashing NBC and SNL.

[Clio the Leo]

25. some of that had NO basis in fact..........

.... unlike with the Palin skit ...... race card? When has he EVER played the race card? And some of that corruption stuff was COMPLETELY baseless.

Of course after last week's deal about Todd Palin having sex with his daughters, we should consider ourselves lucky.

[nam78_two]

28. Yeah -It is not funny when you just make shit up

:shrug:
Satire works when it exaggerates something that is at least loosely based in reality.

[question everything]

36. Has anyone notice that the joke was on CNN?

They had CNN logo at the bottom of the screen and "recaptured" whatever everyone said, including, at the end, that McCain did not care anymore.

I watched the real debate on CNN and this was pretty close to what they did.

[DemFromMem]

15. It's nice to see Chris Parnell back as Lehrer

He left the cast in 2006. I presume this is a one time deal.

[HughMoran]

16. Wasn't the best skit ever

But it was OK...

[Wise Child]

22. This is like a bad improv session

The debate was just yesterday. It's SNL, after all, not that funny.

[DemFromMem]

24. Fred Armistead is pretty blah

He's not my favorite cast member and his Obama really is pretty boring. Not sure if it's the writers, but the character is pretty forgettable.

[malik flavors]

26. LOL, they've been murdering palin for weeks and now SNL is run by freepers...

because they took a couple shots at Obama?

HAha, man, I can't believe some people around here.

[Fran Kubelik]

30. Who said freepers?

I was disappointed that they chose the material they did to go after Obama. Not only was it old and/or disproven stuff, but it wasn't even funny.

[GarbagemanLB]

34. Well, being an ardent support of Obama might make you (and me) a bit biased...

[AkFemDem]

37. At least one poster blamed it on "repuke writers"

[firedupdem]

27. They made mccain and palin look like idiots...thats okay with the

Obama stuff..it was waaaay off base. I think they just had to make it appear that they were going after both.

[jenmito]

35. I agree. They KILLED Palin and they were 100 times harder on McCain than Obama...

I think they realized the Obama "race card" stuff wasn't based on fact so it won't resonate. They just had to look like they're not "in the tank" for Obama.

[THUNDER HANDS]

29. Obama is nearly impossible to parody

not just because the guy playing him isn't black, but i really don't see anything in his personality or demeanor that can be parodied. Poor SNL, it's going to be a tough 8 years.

[Clio the Leo]

31. yeah, I was just thinking this has to be one of the first attempts I've seen...

... by ANY comedic act.

[AkFemDem]

39. They could always have him say, "uh uh uh" over and over

I love Obama, but that's deifnitly a lampoonable trait.

Nothing nearly as good as Palin's "I can see Russia" comments or Gores "lockbox" skits!

[CarbonDate]

40. His verbal pauses are the only thing....

...that I can think of for them to use. I mean, they're used to Bush writing their stuff for them. They're going to have to bring their A-game to satirize President Obama.