Seth Meyers on Weekend Update SNL Last Night Really Did Say It Best

[romantico]

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/weekend-update-highlights/1198010/

"On Friday President Obama appeared before House Republicans in a historic televised Q & A and performed so well,after wards GOP Aids said that allowing cameras to roll like that was a mistake. Come on Republicans,are you on such a Scott Brown high you thought you could take down Barack Obama by debating him? You realize debates are why he is President, right? Seriously, all you do is complain how Obama is all talk and then you invite him to a forum that is literally all talk. That's like saying lets see how tough Aquaman is once we get him in the water. I'm not saying you were out classed but the whole thing was like the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the guy charged at Indiana Jones with the sword and he just shot him."

[Hamlette]

1. the Indiana Jones reference is pure gold

along with my other favorite line from the debate from John Cole:

If Mike Pence really is regarded as one of the deep thinkers for the GOP, I’m beginning to understand why they refused to admit Terri Schiavo was brain-dead.

[thunder rising]

7. The John Cole line is the best! That earned my monitor a coffee shower yesterday.

[Sherman A1]

20. Agreed

Watching the replay on C-Span was almost painful (not that I pity the GOP, but these guys don't even know better than to televise on of the best speakers of our time, fully prepared to do a Q&A with their gang) in how bad they looked. I liken it to watching my ex wife's divorce lawyer when we appeared at court for our divorce, she was sooo very bad that while I couldn't like her I did feel sorry for her.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. is there a link anywhere?

I'd LOVE to see it!!

(not your divorce proceedings! I mean the President's continued brilliance. I LOVE to see idiots get smacked down with brain power!!)


thanks :)

ON EDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : I just saw (and bookmarked for savoring later) the vid posted right here at good ol' DU. Gotta run now.

duhhhhhhhh :P

[alfredo]

32. Here:

"If Mike Pence really is regarded as one of the deep thinkers for the GOP, I’m beginning to understand why they refused to admit Terri Schiavo was brain-dead." - John Cole

[Kahuna]

13. I loved that one too.

:rofl:

[XOKCowboy]

2. LOL Perfect Smackdown!

:rofl:

[yellerpup]

3. Best of SNL News for sure!

Also, the Sotomayor interview! :rofl: SNL was great last night!

[Kdillard]

4. lol. snort.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. I may have to start watching SNL again

if for no other reason than to see Weekend Update. Hope the producers get lots of positive feedback on that astute observation and have the writers work in some more zingers like that.

I'm a fervent believer in the power of humor - especially satire & parody - in political discourse. Democrats have the inherent advantage, as most of the humor takes the form of the little guy tackling the powers that be. Conservative 'humor' - if there is such a thing - makes fun of the downtrodden and less fortunate, so it comes off as mean-spirited & condescending. It's part of the reason why nobody has laughed at Dennis Miller (other than freeper troglodytes) ever since he allowed 9/11 to snap his fucking mind.

[Clio the Leo]

6. True, but I have to knit pick with Seth on that one.....

.... debates are NOT what Barack Obama is President. If he has one weak point on the campaign trail, it's debating. He apparently hates what is essentially a battle of the sound bites and we all know his inability to concentrate his argument into a concise answer. :)

Fortunately, by the time the GOP faced Obama in the debates in 2008, he had already survived Hillary (that's a compliment to her) and had, essentially, already won.

But that IS an interesting point .... and it will be interesting to see what they GOP will try to do with the Presidential debates in 2012.

[Pirate Smile]

8. Here is a Youtube of that point in Raiders of the Last Arc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cdYrBsWhtk

[louis-t]

35. I remember reading that the actor was mad because he had

rehearsed the scene for hours with his sword and never got to finish the sequence.

Clarity: it was originally a long, choreographed fight scene.

[Pirate Smile]

36. Right. Ford was sick.

"The infamous scene in which Indy shoots a marauding and flamboyant swordsman was not in the original script. Harrison Ford was supposed to use his whip to get the swords out of his attacker's hands, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had gotten made him too sick to perform the stunt. After several unsuccessful tries, someone made the off-handed remark, "Why doesn't he just shoot him and get it done and over with?" Steven Spielberg immediately took up the idea and the scene was successfully filmed. "

http://www.zimbio.com/Raiders+of+the+Lost+Ark/articles/247/Raiders+Lost+Ark+Sword+vs+Gun

[louis-t]

39. Great stuff. Thanks.

I had forgotten why they changed it.

[SunsetDreams]

9. LOL K&R

[Cha]

10. Brwawawawa~

"That's like saying lets see how tough Aquaman is once we get him in the water. I'm not saying you were out classed but the whole thing was like the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the guy charged at Indiana Jones with the sword and he just shot him.":D

[Phx_Dem]

11. ROLF. My favorite scene from Indiana Jones!

[johnaries]

12. Watched it, LOVED it!

Especially the Aquaman and Indy Jones analogies. :rofl:

[Gregorian]

14. I finally found a place to post this-

http://www.dramabutton.com/

[Arkana]

15. YES.

This is hilarious.

[themaguffin]

16. that was a great line that sums it up

[BrklynLiberal]

17. The was a very funny line..about Indiana Jones.

[veganlush]

18. me, i liked the Aquaman reference.......beauty..n/t

[druidity33]

21. yeah, me too. clever. nt.

[EvilMonk]

19. I think this needs to happen more often...

...it may very well be what we need to get everyone to talk to each other.

You know, like adults or something.

[uponit7771]

23. Was Obama THAT good?

[Pirate Smile]

24. You didn't watch it? My God, watch the friggin video. Trust me, it's worth the time.

[paparush]

25. Raiders of the Lost Ark

Back story - Indy has been chased all over the kazbah, willy-nilly, helter-skelter, dodging this, escaping that. He's exhausted. The crowd suddenly parts and the "sultan in black" swaggers up wielding a giant sword, showing off flashy sultan-sword-moves. Indy, tired of all the shenanigans and unimpressed by the sultan's sword prowess, nonchalantly draws his revolver and dispatches the sultan.



and the obligatory YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anEuw8F8cpE

[skyounkin]

28. What's so funny about that scene

is that there was suppose to be a actually fight between Indy and the sword guy...but Harrison Ford was like "Why don't I just shoot him?"

And BANG- one of the most famous scenes in Hollywood is born.

[Beetwasher]

29. The Story Is He Was Sick W/ Fever

And didn't feel up to the fight scene.

[paparush]

38. so that scene was a Ford adlib? I never heard that!

[skyounkin]

40. Not so much ad lib as Harrison going to Steven and saying

"Why don't I just shoot him?"

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Victims of their own mythology.

One of the articles of faith in the Wingnut camp is that Obama can't speak without a teleprompter, can't handle himself extemporaneously. The Republicans are living proof that if you tell a lie often enough, you will come to believe it yourself.

[Shining Jack]

27. K&R

[newtothegame]

30. No doubt. Obama is the biggest celebrity in the world. You really think you can outmatch him? n/t

[MilesColtrane]

31. It reminded me of Neo taking on a hundred Agent Smiths.

[orbitalman]

33. PRICELESS n/t

[groovedaddy]

34. My secret wish: Republicans go the way of the dinosaur and Dems become

the "conservative" party. The repubs have earned extinction.

[Ignis]

37. Points for the Aquaman reference.

:rofl:

[uponit7771]

41. This needs to be said over and over

[Blue_Tires]

42. LOL at that!

[TexasObserver]

43. "Let's see how tough Aquaman is once we get him in the water."

Seth was en fuego.