SNL: Dan Aykroyd returns to help skewer clueless Repug congress critters.

[jefferson_dem]

Run time: 06:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVLEPDG082o   Posted on YouTube: February 15, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 15, 2009 By DU Member: jefferson_dem Views on DU: 3977

 
Hope you enjoy. Sifting through the heaps of Jonas Brothers clips to find this one was no joy. :)

[Historic NY]

1. Brilliant, just brilliant.

[ProfessorPlum]

2. K&R - omg, that was perfect and hilarious

I've not seen an SNL skit that was actually that smart and funny - and perceptive - in years. I wonder who woke up and wrote it? They captured the GOP cluelessness to a T.

[ShortnFiery]

3. Where's the outrage?!?

:rofl: "all those snacks, higher utility bills and wear and tear on the WH carpets!" :spray:

[underpants]

4. As usual it was sort of close but they left a lot sitting in the air

SNL must think they are the cleverist thing ever but unfortunately it simply doesn't make it screen.

Lots of dead air there. The premise was good but they actually went back to the well on the press conference thing after they had got all the water they were going to get out of it.

Hell they could have just gone with facts like the fantasy land CBO report and the mouse/rat embarassment. They also left the Mitch McConnell impression without taking advantage of it. The Rush/Hannity bit was funny and got loud laughs at the beginning. Also Aykroyd could have answered the phone "Boner, I mean BAYnor" or something like that.

[janet118]

11. You're right . . .

but it was still funnier than the rest of the show, by miles.

[underpants]

12. I caught the end of the Alec Baldwin/Jonas brothers skit

the part about the purity ring was funny

but there was a joke sitting there about "working in a brothers act" that I didn't see-unless they did it at the beginning :shrug:

They seem to get their tiny hits in the first 15 seconds of skits and clearly don't think them out to a conclusion. Circular humor-that sort of thing. The writing process is supposed to include an expansion of the premise even off shoots then you pare it down to a point (with an off shoot still available) create three times more material than you need then EDIT but they seem to just write one line skits that last 3 minutes and never get back to the opening.

it is painful to watch.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. I stopped watching years ago for this reason too

Well, I don't have the vocabulary like you do, so I never could explain it quite right...

But yes, they're funny in the very beginning of a skit, but then, they do fill out a joke, it's done, then they circle back to it, trying to wring out another laugh or two; they go on and on with stuff that is a waste of time..the skit starts to drag and still they don't stop....

Sure it's tough for any artist to know when to stop, but not knowing when to stop shouldn't be their signature style! For the last however many years....

geez, I haven't watched in so long, I don't even know if they've let the women be funny or if they continue to think we're only useful for some walk-on butt of the bimbo jokes. (huh! what a choice of words! I won't even bother trying to apologize for the unintended pun...)

it gets painful to watch.

[FatDave]

17. That was a really weak episode last night.

They phoned in. It never got better than that opening sketch.

[AlbertCat]

15. Agreed

A good 1st draft....but how about something actually funny.

[ihavenobias]

22. I completely agree.

I thought they missed a real opportunity.

When you got after Republicans like that, you can't leave anything on the field and you really need to take advantage of it and make it was funny as possible (and hopefully make a few good points that get played on MSM talk shows the following Monday).

[Towlie]

5. "Embedding disabled by request"

But you can still watch it at YouTube's site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVLEPDG082o

[Royal Oak Rog]

6. That's Franken Material

I don't care who they gave credit to, but that's Al Franken comedy, and yes it was brilliant.

[Callalily]

7. Finally, something funny

and entertaining on SNL. Glad you posted, or I would have missed it.

Disappointed in SNL for some time now.

[kstewart33]

8. Great skit. Thanks for posting it! nt

[momdogz]

9. a bit of relief

to laugh at the repugs idiocy. Thanks for posting.

[janet118]

10. "Unless I'm completely tone deaf . . . "

Too funny.

[JPZenger]

25. that was the best line. nt

[Postman]

13. Speaks to the utter cluelessness and marginalization of the Republican Party.

They have become a party that represents the extreme crazy element

[rosesaylavee]

14. Aykroyd has to be playing Boner ... look at his hairline.

:rofl:

[mucifer]

16. he answered the phone as boner.

[tridim]

18. You know the only thing Obama has done that I really despise..

Is that he indirectly gave legitimacy to the freaking Jonas Brothers.

Hide your tweener's ears..

Gawd they suck. They go far beyond average Disney teen sensation suckage.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a 3 way lip sync/2 way guitar sync before, but the Jonas Brothers certainly delivered. They're the worst thing to happen to music in decades.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. hee hee!

(and I haven't even seen the Jonas brothers...I kind of stay away from mass culture, as much as possible I guess)

guess this would be even funnier if I did see them..... :7
well, at least it's good to know our CIC is not perfect!

[mucifer]

21. It's this generations "partridge family". It's a right of passage we have to deal with.

[NBachers]

28. Okay- if you brought the Jonas Bros. home for your 6 & 10 year old

girls- would you rawk in their eyes or what?

Just don't try to dance along when they played their "music." That would be tooo humiliating to your poor kids.

[CatWoman]

23. MAJORITY HERE WE COME!!!

:rofl:

[libodem]

24. that was great

SNL has not been relevant or funny like that in a long time!

[Politicalboi]

26. I thought the end of the skit

Was just terrible. They start out good but they drag on too long and lose it.

[digidigido]

27. Akroyd was great, but the whole skit was flat and lame, a few good lines but

otherwise embarrassing, and I don't think I laughed once. Juvenile mean spirited attempts at humor that
weren't funny

[liberaltrucker]

29. Embed removed

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