Fuck You, SNLorne

[Stinky The Clown]

Shittiest cold open I ever saw.

[dflprincess]

1. I was so pissed off by it

especially how they portrayed Pelosi.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. That was the worst of it

Did they miss the GA Senate debate. The one in WI? There was plenty of material.

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. I know right?

What a missed opportunity

[doc03]

8. How about what they did to Adam Schiff, made him

out to be loony.

[Ocelot II]

2. SNL hasn't been consistently funny in decades.

[bahboo]

3. it was bad...really bad...

just not funny....at all....

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Haven't watched since 1980?

But I was so fortunate to see the greatest musicians 67-75....

[unblock]

19. The 67-74 portion of that wouldn't have been on snl....

First aired in 1975

[OAITW r.2.0]

85. Written on my 5th or 6th glass I wine, I think.

That post of mine was totally incoherent.

Should have stated '75-79 and it was the comedians not musicians that I was remarking about.
In 1975 I was down in NYC for a couple of months. I had the great opportunity to see the original SNL crew doing their pre-TV preparation at the New Paladium Theater. Had the playbill, but that's since been lost to time....

[unblock]

87. haha i think quite a number of snl skits were written on the 5th or 6th glass of wine

and quite a few other skits might have benefitted from 5 or 6 glasses of wine!

[SoCalDavidS]

6. SNL & CNN Are Dead To Me

Watching Baseball. Haven't seen an SNL episode since May, and probably won't bother based upon what I've heard.

Also heard how they treated Rage Against The Machine, and for that alone, those who run the show can go Fuck themselves.

[MustLoveBeagles]

7. That's disappointing

I would've thought they would've parodied the Wisconsin or the Georgia debates especially the latter. When Walker whipped out that badge it looked like an SNL skit. Please don't tell me they actually mocked the J6 footage?

[doc03]

12. Yep made them all look crazy. nt

[Deuxcents]

10. Good thing I missed..

[LenaBaby61]

11. Is Michael's still a Republican?

I stopped watching SNL when Eddie Murphy left in 1984.

[DURHAM D]

13. Fire the old sexist fucker and give the job to Tina Fey.

[a kennedy]

14. So happy I didn't watch........

[no_hypocrisy]

15. The writers must all be trumpers.

[Treefrog]

16. I had no idea people still watched that show.

Haven't seen it in years.

[Stinky The Clown]

18. I guess you don't read DU.

There is a thread on it for one reason or another at least even Saturday.

[Sympthsical]

36. It is actually pretty decent

It is . . . uh . . . not at all for the demographic here. Like, at all. Sometimes, it feels like comedy is being reacted to like those Christians who keep watching gay movies and then writing angry letters about it. "We are tired of being forced to watch this content over and over again! How dare they!"

But that's ok. Not everything is for everyone. When I fired it up this morning, I immediately came here. I was like, "Oh, this gonna be some shit."

I could easily share two dozen skits from the past few years I've thought completely slayed it. Papyrus, Titanic Iceberg, Daddy Long Legs, Sara Lee, the Actress, the Brett Kavenaugh hearings, Cheques, The Duel, Mirror Workout, etc. But my favorite by far has to be Wells For Boys. I have a kitten who stares at his reflection in the fireplace glass pensively and it never doesn't make me think of it. Now if I ask my partner where the cat is, and he's at the fireplace, the reply is "Wells for Cats".

Or maybe I'm just grateful they have LGBT writers and actors now. Either way.

[EX500rider]

62. My fav 2 skits in the last few years:

They have had some hysterical skits in the last few years IMO:

Watch the cast try not to laugh during this one:

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[USALiberal]

38. You thought the show was cancelled?

[Celerity]

17. SNL Cold Open 10/15/22 'January 6th in C-SPAN' Saturday Night Live October 15, 2022

[jimfields33]

22. Some of it was funny.

They were better back in the day, but it had moments.

[TheBlackAdder]

26. Man, that was painful to watch. Seeing them grasp for something/anything to mock and floundering.

.

It was harmless, but they really failed to satire the key takeaways of the hearing, which
would have been a solid. Instead, they appeared feeble as they had to resort to low-rent
caricature impersonations. Kenan was probably thinking the whole time, "Man, this sucks!"

Please put this out of its misery.

.

[wnylib]

31. Well, that sucked. Bigly.

What's with the canned laughter? Must have been canned since it ran almost nonstop and there was nothing to laugh at.

[Fiendish Thingy]

20. Huh, I thought it was funny, pretty harmless stuff.

Sure, the writers could have made it more biting and hard edged, but they didn’t.

Nothing really mean spirited, just silly IMO.

Chloe Fineman was great as Pelosi.

[wnylib]

32. You liked the ridicule of Pelosi and of

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the entire J6 committee and their work?

I just can't laugh at that.

[USALiberal]

39. They make fun of both sides

[wnylib]

46. I didn't notice them making fun of MAGAs,

insurrectionists, or the Big Lie. It looked only like they ridiculed the people investigating them. There seemed to be no point to the skit, other than that the investigation and people doing it are not to be taken seriously.

I didn't even see any accuracy in the ridicule. For example, when people make jokes about Biden's age, there is a basis for the jokes, even if I don't agree with them, because Biden is old. But what was the basis for portraying Schumer as obsessed with food? Or portraying Schiff as loony?

The only part that was both funny and had a real life basis were the jokes about Liz Cheney's strength coming from being Dick Cheney's daughter.

The rest was grade school level gibberish, IMO.

[Polybius]

69. Were you watching during the Trump years?

They made fun of him weekly. Usually the Party in power is their main focus.

[wnylib]

74. I haven't watched since the Bush II years.

[Fiendish Thingy]

56. Meh, it was just silly

I don’t consider our leaders to be beyond the reach of satire.

[Blue Owl]

21. Did tRump touch it somehow?

Because it’s turned to shit...

[jimfields33]

23. It was actually pretty good until they showed Trump.

Trumps part was so dumb.

[question everything]

24. I stopped watching in the last two years. Certainly after Alec Baldwin was gone

I thought it was age difference. As an old boomer I started watching in the 70s with the old timers.

From many comments here in the past year, it appears that it is time for it to fold gracefully.

[nolabear]

25. I didn't mind. Not side splitting but not offensive.

Comedy pokes fun. Spreading it around is okay imo.

[Mr.Mystery]

27. Agreed. Making a big thing out of the Speaker saying "poo poo"?

I thought the writers were older than 5.

[grantcart]

28. Yep it was OK until they got to Pelosi and Schumer, couldn't watch past that.

[sheshe2]

29. I never watch them.

Now I know why.

This was not cool.

We nearly lost our congressional leader, Pelosi. Most likely Pence as well. They are our second and third in line to the PRESIDENCY! Officers were beaten near to death. People died that day and some after. One had a heart attack, some committed suicide. Some like Fanone will never be the same again.

SNL needs to offer an apology. Our Democracy was at stake that day. I repeat Our Democracy was at stake that day and it is not a laughing matter.

We are still on a fine line. Time will tell if we survive.

[wnylib]

33. +1000

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. SNL has NOT been funny this season

[2naSalit]

35. +1

[vercetti2021]

34. They need to end it

It hasn't been funny since the 90s. Lorne either needs to end it or give the show to another person to make necessary changes. I miss MadTV

[Sympthsical]

37. It was amusing

The show isn't for partisans. Honestly.

I don't know why people keep watching it assuming it's going to be reverential to their politics. I mean, everyone's seen the show before, yeah?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

47. It didn't bother me.

I just now saw the opening because a poster shared it upthread, and it seemed pretty normal compared to past SNL mockery.

[Sympthsical]

49. Mostly light ribbing while dumping on Trump

It bothers me that people are this against their politics being joked about even when it's the other side getting hammered: "Is Mike Pence dead yet?"

It's probably a good thing people didn't watch past the cold open, because Michael Che's joke about Speaker Pelosi in Weekend Update was absolutely brutal.

[ChazII]

52. +1 Politics is fair play.

[BlackSkimmer]

54. I never watch it anymore, but went and watched the cold open after reading this thread.

I thought it was funny. I didn't get that they were "ridiculing" Pelosi at all. It was silly harmless mocking, and I find it hard to believe people could possibly take it seriously.

The Liz Cheney part was especially good, I thought. "Is your father Dick Cheney?"

I haven't watched any more of it, so I've not seen the Che Joke.

[Sympthsical]

60. It was a bit of a scorcher

Set up: Pelosi saying she'd go to jail and be happy after punching Trump in the face.

Che's punchline: "I assume because she owns stock in private prisons."

That's how I know no one here made it past the cold open, lol.

[maxsolomon]

72. I'm as Partisan as anyone on this board

and it felt like a "it you don't laugh you'll cry" kind of thing.

Now, if they keep it up with lampooning Pelosi after this...

[Kaleva]

40. If it wasn't for DU, I wouldn't know SNL was still on the air

[Baggies]

41. :snort:

[Karma13612]

42. Haven't watched this season

At all.

Didn’t many leave end of last season?

I hated their characterization of Biden last season and sorta started writing them off.

If they turned that Jan 6th video of Pelosi & Schumer as well as the Jan6 committee last hearing in general, into misleading crap, I’m done with them. Done. I can’t watch.

Those b@$tards.

[Karma13612]

43. Not sure why they

Grasped at straws to mock Schumer and Pelosi.

It was cruel and stupid. The rest of the piece wasn’t as bad as I was dreading based on comments here. The young writers think sincerity in a person is something to be mocked.

This is a trend in American culture.

Case in point: the ads where they tell you not to be like your old parents. It involves mocking simple gestures like complimenting servers or being helpful to others. Yup, something has been changing in humanity. It’s called, oddly enough, humanity. Apparently it’s no longer cool to be kind. Manners are mocked and cruelty is the order of the day.

[betsuni]

44. What was the 12 pickles and hot pastrami sandwich with light mustard for Schumer thing?

Why was that funny?

[maxsolomon]

75. Because he's an old Jewish man from New York.

Very particular deli orders and kvetching about them are amusing to New Yorkers. That bit could easily have been written by a Jewish staff writer, too.

Remember the Seinfeld episode where George Costanza saved a whale from a golf ball hit into the ocean by Kramer? "The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man sending back soup at a deli."

[betsuni]

81. Thanks.

Was surprised they didn't have Nancy eating a Slim Jim, then the Schumer sandwich wouldn't have seemed to come out of the blue. I thought her Slim Jim was hilarious.

[brooklynite]

45. Stash WNL, Mitchell, Kornacki and Todd, we have enough content for a whole new forum.

[634-5789]

48. Agreed! Worst opening since the 90's.

[dsc]

50. It was pretty bad

good parody starts with truth and exaggerates, but it was hard to find any truth in the portrayal of Raskin, Pelosi, Kinzinger, and Schumer.

[SYFROYH]

51. It was funny enough.

SNL isnt obligated to the Democratic party.

[BannonsLiver]

58. Or to write for the 75+ demo that makes up most of the forum.

[maxsolomon]

71. OMG Ageism

[BannonsLiver]

84. Reality is most of the forum is 70+

Take a look around. Read the threads. TV Writers in their 20s and 30s and 40s writing for their own age group is not ageism. But good try!

[maxsolomon]

86. I wasn't serious.

I've consistently been accused of Ageism on DU, including 2016 r.e. HRC, and 2020 r.e. Sen. Sanders.

There's little doubt you're correct but actually mentioning it offends many.

[Dirty Socialist]

53. When a live show has to pipe in canned laughter

It’s done. Through. Finished. Stick a fork in it.

[GusBob]

55. Meh, it's just TV show

One has the option of not watching

One does not have to get so emotionally invested in something so stupid

I don’t even own a TV and haven’t watched anything in 20 years and can still see how pervasive and consumptive in peoples’ lives the idiot box is.

Jesus we had a president who watched it constantly and used the medium to manipulate a certain sort of person to vote for him.

I mean take that show Yellowstone, please take it away. Whenever someone asks me about Montana, they ask me about that fucking show. My first impression is I am dealing with a dim shallow personality

Just yesterday I met the sheriff up to Augusta. Since there was nobody else forever around we got to talking

Sheriff Dutton I noticed so I said;
‘Dutton huh? Man you must get tired of the questions’
He goes
‘Yep, but here’s the thing~ I may not be as rich as they are, I ain’t pretty or skinny like them either.
But I am from around here, and there’s nothing fake about me’

[BannonsLiver]

57. Bahahaha

These threads are becoming so unintentionally hilarious every week. My favorite is the predictability of the responses.

“Haven’t watched since Andy Kaufman died.”

“Show hasn’t been funny since the 70s”

“They’ve gone right wing.”

“The writers must be trumpers.”

[ripcord]

59. According to people here they are only supposed to roast republicans

[Quixote1818]

64. Agree. LOL

[Xavier Breath]

68. Yep.

It's become a cut-and-paste job every Sunday morning.

Watched the show and had zero issue with it from that standpoint. Che's joke on update was funny and Chloe's Pelosi was great.

[DashOneBravo]

73. ...

[Elessar Zappa]

79. Lol.

It does get tiring.

[Celerity]

82. +1000

[Generic Brad]

61. Got to admit - last night's episode was a stinker

I usually laugh at least once. Nada last night. It was more sad than amusing.

[Quixote1818]

63. Thought it was fine.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

65. Gonna do some self-reflection after realizing how much SNL threads crack my shit up.

[DashOneBravo]

66. Now I had to watch

I thought it was funny.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/snl-cold-open-pelosi-preoccupied-schumer-respond-to-jan-6-insurrection-1234611937/amp/

[Polybius]

67. SNL literally makes fun of everyone, and usually it's Republicans

Why complain when they poke fun at us sometimes? It's sometimes funny.

[maxsolomon]

70. I thought that was pretty good as far as SNL goes.

The Liz Cheney's childhood speech was great. The Schumer jokes were a decent running gag (he's their Senator), the Pelosi imitation was fairly accurate, and most of what they had her say were direct quotes.

The cynicism regarding * and the committee's subpoena is justified.

[iemanja]

76. I found it boring

and turned it off before it was over. The bit about Liz Cheney's dad was mildly funny.

[Leith]

77. SNL is going the way of Bill Maher in my house

We quit watching Real Time a couple years ago. After they gave Prager time to spew his filth instead of going to New Rules, it was no longer worth my time.

SNL's cold open was awful. Megan Thee Stallion's monologue seemed to be okay at first. It looked like she was signing her monologue as she was speaking (too fast for me to get half of it, but whatever), which I thought was a very cool thing to do. Then I realized that her hands were just waving and giving us random gestures - not signing.

This season has been a disappointment. I fell asleep before the news. I'm not going to bother any more.

[The Protagonist]

78. Some things are just too serious to turn into humor

Did SNL ever yuck it up over 911? Or Jonestown for instance? Just horrible taste and tone deaf.

[Celerity]

83. Too Soon? 9/11 in Comedy

[LetMyPeopleVote]

80. The Mocking of Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi pissed me off