Trump's bombing pales next to SNL's & Larry DAVID's total denigration against Hispanics
Many here will say that it's not comedy's role to be ideological, fine. We can leave that point here, that the whole thing was unfunny throughout. The cold opening set the bar for not being funny, but from the moment TRUMP stepped out, something was odd. He came forward sluggishly, without the usual bouncing of all other SNL hosts, yes "low energy." As the whole show lumbered along in total lameness, I wondered whether the writers and cast were doing it all in silent protest, to give TRUMP the worst context possible.
But the slams against Hispanics were stunning, beginning with Larry DAVID's mocking and undermining the Latino protesters' own meme against them, "TRUMP is a racist. I heard they were paying $5 thousand if I said that. (Shrugs)"
Then was the "president of Mexico" delivering a check for building the wall.
And Michael CHE, who had otherwise delivered a little poke at "rich old white guys" making his "negro senses start tingling," went on to say about Taco Bell (Taco Bell itself being a jerky stereotype), "I thought they got their staff from NONSENSICAL WORDS" (while a listing of menu items in the SPANISH LANGUAGE scrolled behind him.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027325845 BY global1
[font size=5]It Would Really Be Funny If Trump's Poll Numbers Go Down Now.... after doing this terribly unfunny SNL[/font]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027325842 By Adenoid Hynkel
[font size=5]Larry DAVID is a massive tool[/font]
Way to help a dangerous, nativist demagogue and his starstruck NBC enablers laugh off very valid criticism, you prick. I shouldn't be surprised. This is, after all, the guy who tried to trivialize Michael Richards' bigotry.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027325765 By tavernier
[font size=5]The Donald appears to be dying[/font]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027325855 By Stinky The Clown
[font size=5]Trump on SNL: F-[/font]
That was maybe the most not funny SNL ever.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/08/trump-bombs-terribly-as-snl-host-is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
[font size=5]NOT HUGE
Trump Bombs Terribly as SNL Host—Is This the Beginning of the End? [/font]
Matt WILSTEIN
.... When Trump’s monologue began, you could have been forgiven for thinking NBC was re-airing his 2004 appearance. Darrell Hammond even reprised his role as Trump impersonator, in addition to his recent replacement Taran Killam. Trump had to rely on SNL’s resident Bernie Sanders, Larry David, yelling, “You’re a racist!” from off-stage for the biggest laugh of the show up to that point.
For the first sketch after the monologue, the SNL writers valiantly imagined the White House as it will look in 2018 when President Donald Trump has been in office for more than a year. He tweets laws and added the word “huge” to the National Anthem! And there’s the president of Mexico delivering the money for that wall Trump promised along the border. “Consider it an apology for doubting you,” he tells Trump. “Nothing brings two countries together like a wall.”
After an underwhelming appearance by his daughter Ivanka that seemed to barely register as a surprise cameo with the crowd, Trump proceeded to break the fourth wall and commit the cardinal sin of comedy: explaining the joke.
“If you think that’s how it’s going to be when I’m president, you’re wrong. It’s going to be even better,” he said. “I said to the writers of this sketch, keep it modest, OK? It’s better to start with low expectations, that way you have nowhere to go but up.” ....
“Whenever rich old white guys start bringing up the good old days, my negro senses start tingling,” he said. “All those years of progress, Trump’s going to really go, ‘No, I think we had it right the first time?’”
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