Saturday Night Live - Think they were pissed off about Prop 8 passing?

[Renegade08]

Anyone watched the show tonight? It had a touching yet funny gay-marriage skit, and it had a couple of additional skits that would make the heads of social conservatives explode - Adam Samberg and Paul Rudd in a hilarious spoof of the Titanic nude painting scene, and the first skit involving the very, very affectionate family.

I think they were trying to make a point.

[Winnipegosis]

1. Ya

That first skit was-------a bit------over-the-top.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Not on at Left Coast yet

but have it in queue on the DVR

Welcome to DU, renegade08! :hi:

[WCGreen]

3. The best Justine Timberlake since Dick in a box...

[Renegade08]

5. Forgot to mention the Timberlake-Beyonce sketch. That was HILARIOUS.

Got to hand it to Timberlake. He's willing to look and act like an absolute fool in the name of comedy. Like Will Ferrell. I'd like to see him host SNL again. He could be a regular on SNL, that's how good a comedic sketch actor he is.

[JackBeck]

4. If you made it to the end of the episode

The last sketch definitely made the point.

[Renegade08]

6. I didn't see it. But I dvr'ed it. I'll check it out.

[ToolTex]

7. Hope the sketches hit YouTube soon, so I can catch them. n/t

[Divine Discontent]

9. Justin was actually funny in the weekend update... I'm shocked, I say, shocked. LOL

I missed the beginning, so I hope to see them on youtube too.

[Divine Discontent]

8. I didn't like the wording used by the writer's for Seth's news things with Snagglepuss

saying "you're a homosexual lion!" and "yes, this is a great setback to you personally" - words mean a lot!!! - and I would expect them to say, "yes, this is a great setback to EQUAL RIGHTS for all", and to say "Gay lion"...

[Winnipegosis]

10. It's comedy.

Not necessarily meant to placate one side or the other.

[Berry Cool]

11. I don't know. It seemed to me as if almost every sketch had a gay male subtext

that was meant to ridicule gay men more than support them.

The only exception I'd make is the Snagglepuss thing on Weekend Update. That was funny, and it seemed to be supportive as opposed to ridiculing.

The rest of the sketches (with the exception of the opening Biden thing and the spoof on ED drug commercials near it) seemed predicated on some sort of gay male subtext joke. The family that kissed each other on the lips all the time and made the visiting college friend uncomfortable? Wasn't the main joke that guys were kissing each other a lot? The "Titanic" "paint" sketch--wasn't the joke that the guys were attracted to each other and seeing their nude paintings of each other made people sick and suicidal? The guys riding in the car singing "Garden Party"...the Beyonce backup-dancers thing...the jumper-on-the-building sketch with the two guys trying to talk him down...it was like all of them had an either obvious or subtextual theme of the men being attracted to each other and it being funny simply because it was such a repulsive idea, or funny because they were "acting like women" (the dancers).

There was also a lot of humor based on gore and death and blood spattering all over the place, which seemed kind of strange too.

But the thing that really struck me was how very few women were involved, period. I mean, they just hired two new women cast members, this was their first night, but almost none of the sketches involved women. It was like a guy-fest, which didn't do a lot to eliminate the locker-room atmosphere of it being just a bunch of guys ridiculing the idea of love between men.

That's the impression I was left with, anyway.