So during SNL's opening sketch right now, they were doing the Sarah Palin / Katie Couric interview. At one point, Tina Fey's impersonation started to quote the real Sarah Palin verbatim, and almost no level of absurdity was lost.
GOSLING'S RULES OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING, CONTINUED:
3524. Never crush a precinct captain under a Golden Tee cabinet.
3525. Lifting up a lectern and breaking it over your head may look cool, but then you're standing in front of debris which can ruin the campaign appearance.
3526. Never cancel on a late-night talk show host.
3527. Never make a point about the Middle East by simulating a sandstorm.
3528. Don't paint your penis in the colors of the Mexican flag and show it to Lou Dobbs.
3529. If Saturday Night Live quotes you verbatim, you screwed up bad.
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So during SNL's opening sketch right now, they were doing the Sarah Palin / Katie Couric interview. At one point, Tina Fey's impersonation started to quote the real Sarah Palin verbatim, and almost no level of absurdity was lost.
GOSLING'S RULES OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING, CONTINUED:
3524. Never crush a precinct captain under a Golden Tee cabinet.
3525. Lifting up a lectern and breaking it over your head may look cool, but then you're standing in front of debris which can ruin the campaign appearance.
3526. Never cancel on a late-night talk show host.
3527. Never make a point about the Middle East by simulating a sandstorm.
3528. Don't paint your penis in the colors of the Mexican flag and show it to Lou Dobbs.
3529. If Saturday Night Live quotes you verbatim, you screwed up bad.
So during SNL's opening sketch right now, they were doing the Sarah Palin / Katie Couric interview. At one point, Tina Fey's impersonation started to quote the real Sarah Palin verbatim, and almost no level of absurdity was lost.
GOSLING'S RULES OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING, CONTINUED:
3524. Never crush a precinct captain under a Golden Tee cabinet.
3525. Lifting up a lectern and breaking it over your head may look cool, but then you're standing in front of debris which can ruin the campaign appearance.
3526. Never cancel on a late-night talk show host.
3527. Never make a point about the Middle East by simulating a sandstorm.
3528. Don't paint your penis in the colors of the Mexican flag and show it to Lou Dobbs.
3529. If Saturday Night Live quotes you verbatim, you screwed up bad.
I would buy a book of Gosling's 3550 Rules of Political Campaigning.
And by buy I mean flip through in the store.
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SNL continues to have no idea how to make fun of Obama.
It's not like it's fucking hard, you know? Someone hopelessly optimistic with a giant idiot-grin in the face of overwhelmingly horrible news about the economic collapse leading to the End Times would be funny.
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Although the imitator was pretty good, especially imitating Obama's distinct speaking style and his slight head bob he does before he answers.
So, last night's debate has got me seriously considering putting in some time volunteering for the Obama campaign. My schedule's pretty tight, though, in between trying to graduate, get into grad school, and a bunch of other extracirricular shit.
I really suck at talking on the phone, though, and I live in KY, so canvassing is probably a waste of time. Not only this, but I'm not really centrally located - going into Indiana or Ohio is pretty much out of the question. I've thought about just walking over to the Obama campaign office in town and just asking if there's anything at all I can do, even if it's just something entirely menial, but I've never really done anything like this before, so I have no idea what I'd be walking into. I figured this would be as good a place to ask as any, so, any advice on how to get involved in a state that has little to no chance of flipping?
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SNL continues to have no idea how to make fun of Obama.
They soooooo want McCain to win so they can continue to do Palin.
I hate to say it, but if I were NBC I'd seriously consider putting it on hiatus for two or three years and reboot it down the line with a whole new crew of writers.
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WHAT we learned last week is that the man who always puts his “country first” will take the country down with him if that’s what it takes to get to the White House.
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When I was a little kid, I always pretended I was the hero,' Skip said.
'Fuck yeah, me too. What little kid ever pretended to be part of the lynch-mob?'
I've been waiting for South Park to do a thing about the election for a while.
They have the douche and turd episode... I kinda doubt they'll retread that ground.
The thing is that they really can't.
I mean, they can do a thing about one candidate being ridiculously more competent than the other and having everyone completely tied as to who they'd vote for, with douchebags saying that the great guy really isn't that great.
But
Well
I think they'd be insulting most of their demographics.
SNL continues to have no idea how to make fun of Obama.
They soooooo want McCain to win so they can continue to do Palin.
I hate to say it, but if I were NBC I'd seriously consider putting it on hiatus for two or three years and reboot it down the line with a whole new crew of writers.
This shit is just awful.
I won't disagree. It dates back to when they fired the entire cast and hired all new people. But even Will Ferrel is better than the shit they have now.
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SNL's basically chosen its side. I don't think they'd piss off anyone they haven't already.
What side would that be? Unfunny?
Damn my cock-eating challenge. I have to watch this tripe. Since "John McCain" already showed up this episode it looks pretty good in my favor, though.
Yeah Tina Fey's imitation of the Couric interview of Palin was good, especially when she quoted verbatim. That was an excellent touch.
The debate sketch was terrible. Clearly rushed, the impression of Obama is terrible (Hammond is a master at imitations though, underrated IMO), and the things to make fun of Obama were clearly add-ons to try to achieve balance. They even screwed up the easy part - McCain's "timeout"/suspension. It could easily have been - and probably was - 99% written pre-debate.
Yeah Tina Fey's imitation of the Couric interview of Palin was good, especially when she quoted verbatim. That was an excellent touch.
The debate sketch was terrible. Clearly rushed, the impression of Obama is terrible (Hammond is a master at imitations though, underrated IMO), and the things to make fun of Obama were clearly add-ons to try to achieve balance. They even screwed up the easy part - McCain's "timeout"/suspension. It could easily have been - and probably was - 99% written pre-debate.
SNL is funny when it's insightful. These days every sketch feels like it got pushed through a marketing filter to gain MAXIMUM AUDIENCE APPEAL!!! It just... sucks. It's terrible. There is no truth here. I'd almost rather watch Carlos Mencia than this bullshit.
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Yeah Tina Fey's imitation of the Couric interview of Palin was good, especially when she quoted verbatim. That was an excellent touch.
The debate sketch was terrible. Clearly rushed, the impression of Obama is terrible (Hammond is a master at imitations though, underrated IMO), and the things to make fun of Obama were clearly add-ons to try to achieve balance. They even screwed up the easy part - McCain's "timeout"/suspension. It could easily have been - and probably was - 99% written pre-debate.
SNL is funny when it's insightful. These days every sketch feels like it got pushed through a marketing filter to gain MAXIMUM AUDIENCE APPEAL!!! It just... sucks. It's terrible. There is no truth here. I'd almost rather watch Carlos Mencia than this bullshit.
The Bill Clinton lukewarm support of Obama sketch on weekend update for instance is much funnier
Yeah Tina Fey's imitation of the Couric interview of Palin was good, especially when she quoted verbatim. That was an excellent touch.
The debate sketch was terrible. Clearly rushed, the impression of Obama is terrible (Hammond is a master at imitations though, underrated IMO), and the things to make fun of Obama were clearly add-ons to try to achieve balance. They even screwed up the easy part - McCain's "timeout"/suspension. It could easily have been - and probably was - 99% written pre-debate.
SNL is funny when it's insightful. These days every sketch feels like it got pushed through a marketing filter to gain MAXIMUM AUDIENCE APPEAL!!! It just... sucks. It's terrible. There is no truth here. I'd almost rather watch Carlos Mencia than this bullshit.
The Bill Clinton lukewarm support of Obama sketch on weekend update for instance is much funnier
I will agree to this, that last line was a killer.
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Yeah Tina Fey's imitation of the Couric interview of Palin was good, especially when she quoted verbatim. That was an excellent touch.
The debate sketch was terrible. Clearly rushed, the impression of Obama is terrible (Hammond is a master at imitations though, underrated IMO), and the things to make fun of Obama were clearly add-ons to try to achieve balance. They even screwed up the easy part - McCain's "timeout"/suspension. It could easily have been - and probably was - 99% written pre-debate.
SNL is funny when it's insightful. These days every sketch feels like it got pushed through a marketing filter to gain MAXIMUM AUDIENCE APPEAL!!! It just... sucks. It's terrible. There is no truth here. I'd almost rather watch Carlos Mencia than this bullshit.
The Bill Clinton lukewarm support of Obama sketch on weekend update for instance is much funnier
I will agree to this, that last line was a killer.
Yeah Tina Fey's imitation of the Couric interview of Palin was good, especially when she quoted verbatim. That was an excellent touch.
The debate sketch was terrible. Clearly rushed, the impression of Obama is terrible (Hammond is a master at imitations though, underrated IMO), and the things to make fun of Obama were clearly add-ons to try to achieve balance. They even screwed up the easy part - McCain's "timeout"/suspension. It could easily have been - and probably was - 99% written pre-debate.
SNL is funny when it's insightful. These days every sketch feels like it got pushed through a marketing filter to gain MAXIMUM AUDIENCE APPEAL!!! It just... sucks. It's terrible. There is no truth here. I'd almost rather watch CARLOS MENCIA than this bullshit.
Whoa whoa whoa, let's not say anything we might regret.
If you type his name three times Comedy Central renews his contract.
Yeah Tina Fey's imitation of the Couric interview of Palin was good, especially when she quoted verbatim. That was an excellent touch.
The debate sketch was terrible. Clearly rushed, the impression of Obama is terrible (Hammond is a master at imitations though, underrated IMO), and the things to make fun of Obama were clearly add-ons to try to achieve balance. They even screwed up the easy part - McCain's "timeout"/suspension. It could easily have been - and probably was - 99% written pre-debate.
SNL is funny when it's insightful. These days every sketch feels like it got pushed through a marketing filter to gain MAXIMUM AUDIENCE APPEAL!!! It just... sucks. It's terrible. There is no truth here. I'd almost rather watch Carlos Mencia than this bullshit.
The Bill Clinton lukewarm support of Obama sketch on weekend update for instance is much funnier
I will agree to this, that last line was a killer.
SNL is funny when it's insightful. These days every sketch feels like it got pushed through a marketing filter to gain MAXIMUM AUDIENCE APPEAL!!! It just... sucks. It's terrible. There is no truth here. I'd almost rather watch CARLOS MENCIA than this bullshit.
Whoa whoa whoa, let's not say anything we might regret.
If you type his name three times Comedy Central renews his contract.
So that's how it keeps happening.
On an unrelated note, I drove 4 hours from OKC to Joplin, MO to knock on over 50 doors and do some database entry for the Obama people there. Yay for battleground states!
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This stripper club- economy bailout analogy skit idea is pretty awesome. Notice how I said idea, and not how it actually played out. Way to go, SNL, for missing one of the fundamentals of comedy- if you're parodying something, never mention what you're parodying unless you're lampshading it.
It will be especially beautiful if all that White turns Blue, and all that light blue turns dark blue. And hell, let's go for broke- all that light red turns light blue...
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It would seem we have an agreement on the bailout.
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3524. Never crush a precinct captain under a Golden Tee cabinet.
3525. Lifting up a lectern and breaking it over your head may look cool, but then you're standing in front of debris which can ruin the campaign appearance.
3526. Never cancel on a late-night talk show host.
3527. Never make a point about the Middle East by simulating a sandstorm.
3528. Don't paint your penis in the colors of the Mexican flag and show it to Lou Dobbs.
3529. If Saturday Night Live quotes you verbatim, you screwed up bad.
3530. Don't put lipstick on a pig.
I would buy a book of Gosling's 3550 Rules of Political Campaigning.
And by buy I mean flip through in the store.
This retroactive to March 2003.
Hey, they had a good alternate ending to Of Mine and Men sketch last week. And the Fey Palin is amazing.
It's not like it's fucking hard, you know? Someone hopelessly optimistic with a giant idiot-grin in the face of overwhelmingly horrible news about the economic collapse leading to the End Times would be funny.
Fred Armisen's dead eyes? Not funny.
They soooooo want McCain to win so they can continue to do Palin.
I really suck at talking on the phone, though, and I live in KY, so canvassing is probably a waste of time. Not only this, but I'm not really centrally located - going into Indiana or Ohio is pretty much out of the question. I've thought about just walking over to the Obama campaign office in town and just asking if there's anything at all I can do, even if it's just something entirely menial, but I've never really done anything like this before, so I have no idea what I'd be walking into. I figured this would be as good a place to ask as any, so, any advice on how to get involved in a state that has little to no chance of flipping?
I hate to say it, but if I were NBC I'd seriously consider putting it on hiatus for two or three years and reboot it down the line with a whole new crew of writers.
This shit is just awful.
They have the douche and turd episode... I kinda doubt they'll retread that ground.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28rich.html?hp
:whistle:That's what Barak Obama'd do:whistle:
The thing is that they really can't.
I mean, they can do a thing about one candidate being ridiculously more competent than the other and having everyone completely tied as to who they'd vote for, with douchebags saying that the great guy really isn't that great.
But
Well
I think they'd be insulting most of their demographics.
Tina Fey is almost overdoing it she hates Palin so much. She wouldn't come back and they'd be fucked.
I won't disagree. It dates back to when they fired the entire cast and hired all new people. But even Will Ferrel is better than the shit they have now.
What side would that be? Unfunny?
Damn my cock-eating challenge. I have to watch this tripe. Since "John McCain" already showed up this episode it looks pretty good in my favor, though.
The debate sketch was terrible. Clearly rushed, the impression of Obama is terrible (Hammond is a master at imitations though, underrated IMO), and the things to make fun of Obama were clearly add-ons to try to achieve balance. They even screwed up the easy part - McCain's "timeout"/suspension. It could easily have been - and probably was - 99% written pre-debate.
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SNL is funny when it's insightful. These days every sketch feels like it got pushed through a marketing filter to gain MAXIMUM AUDIENCE APPEAL!!! It just... sucks. It's terrible. There is no truth here. I'd almost rather watch Carlos Mencia than this bullshit.
The Bill Clinton lukewarm support of Obama sketch on weekend update for instance is much funnier
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I will agree to this, that last line was a killer.
The line about Palin definitely made me LOL
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Shut the fuck up, Judy Grimes. SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Whoa whoa whoa, let's not say anything we might regret.
If you type his name three times Comedy Central renews his contract.
Corn maze joke was pretty great.
So that's how it keeps happening.
On an unrelated note, I drove 4 hours from OKC to Joplin, MO to knock on over 50 doors and do some database entry for the Obama people there. Yay for battleground states!
This map is beautiful.
So beautiful.
It will be especially beautiful if all that White turns Blue, and all that light blue turns dark blue. And hell, let's go for broke- all that light red turns light blue...
Depending on the legislative language and if John McCain comes back to blow it up again.
If Florida, Indiana, North Carolina and Missouri all go for Obama I don't think there is anything else I could ask for.
I'm kind of sad Georgia isn't in the mix.
I like Georgia.
You could always ask for a ham sandwich.
Whenever I need to close a deal I always throw in a ham sandwich.
EDIT: Do you like Georgia because when Obama won there handily we knew we had this thing in the bag?