Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forum'SNL' audience feels the Bern
https://t.co/X9iRZE0lm2CNN)It happened at about two minutes into a sketch about the Titanic. Bernie Sanders and Larry David finally shared the stage on "Saturday Night Live." And the audience exploded!
Having worked at "SNL" for eight seasons from the late 1990s to mid-2000s, I can tell you that the cheers Sanders received were off the charts, even compared to special appearances by A-list celebrities. Bernie Sanders has morphed from a political figure into a mixture of pop culture icon and folk hero.
What was interesting/painful about Saturday's "SNL" was that the show's producers made us wait to see Bernie. Everyone knew he would be there. Most, including myself, expected to see him in the cold open, likely yelling out in his Brooklyn accent the iconic words, "Live from New York it's Saturday night!"
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)were so badly done I wondered whose side the SNL writers were on. Just my humble opinion. If most people think it was a good effort, fine.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)I liked all the sketches.
Have you seen Curb Your Enthusiasm ???
I don't think it would be funny to anyone who hasn't.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)I thought that schmuck n prick bit was only about (what's that guy's name?) not Bernie. If it was about Bernie then that's even worse.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)I'm a fan of the show. I thought the sketch was hilarious and clever.
The shmuck and prick thing was Larry David's schtick. It's Jewish self deprecating humor. I could see how it turns people off.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)this guy on YouTube.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)He created the tv show Seinfeld along with Jerry Seinfeld. He's always having things happen which are a mixture of misunderstandings and him being an ahole. Then at the end of the episode they pull back some plot points from earlier on that you forgot about and you cringe even more.
BTW they worked all of the main characters in the show into the Bernie Sanders sketch.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)like it. I haven't seen Curb your Enthusiasm - and as for Seinfeld, it's possible I have only watched the Soup Nazi episode.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)I just didn't find it funny.
Larry Davis is hilarious in Curb Your Enthusiasm.
He blurts out the most inappropriate things that gets him
into all kinds of trouble.
He also has weird quirks that morph into embarrassing situations.
It's a funny show.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)frog mentioned in a song? I did chuckle a little at that. I'll look him up online. Maybe he's an acquired taste.
Atman
(31,464 posts)The frog had nothing to do with anything. That was the entire point, and part of why Larry David is a brilliant writer. Non sequiturs are a big part of his shtick. The bit was about a bunch of artists not conforming to the "lesson" they were being taught about how to write a song...like so many great songs we love, they come from nowhere, they come from the heart, and they touch other people. Maybe I read too much into it.
It certainly wasn't "deep," but it resonated: "Here is the way you do it." Then, some free thinker does it differently and people open their eyes.
Atman
(31,464 posts)I totally understood Larry's opening. I never thought it had anything to do with Bernie. It was totally Larry David.
I have watched nearly every episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the Bern Your Enthusiasm bit was spot-on and hilarious. But you can't go do research and watch one episode to understand why the sketch was so perfect. Many aspects of several seasons were on display in the sketch. It's kind of like watching only "The Phantom Menace" and then saying "I don't get Star Wars." The bit may have been too clever for its own good.
Beyond the Bernie bits, Larry David was at his best. Several great costumes and personas. I really haven't laughed so hard at SNL in a very long time.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)The character George was based on Larry David.
In real life he quit a job on Friday.
Changed his mind over the weekend.
Showed up to work on Monday and tried to
convince everyone he was just kidding.
I think they actually took him back, but I can't remember.
Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld wrote the Seinfeld sitcom.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)the Soup Nazi episode, believe it or not. I'm learning that it's no wonder I didn't get the point of anything last night.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)It's not a bad thing.
I am a TV addict.
I am also a hermit, so that explains a lot.
I'm still chuckling.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)tendencies too - but I'm on the computer (DU) instead. I don't know why I have a TV now.
Years ago, I used to watch the "normal" amount of TV like everyone else. Then I went to night school for a lot of years and I never got back into the habit. I only saw Everybody Loves Raymond in re-runs after it had been off the air for several years. I'll watch SpongeBob once in a while. And to think, when I was a kid if the TV went on the blink it was the absolute END OF THE WORLD! like running out of oxygen!
A friend used to tell me, watch more TV. It'll relax you. Not if I don't want to watch it!
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)I am on the computer all day and night.
I just mute the TV if there is a video on the computer I want to watch.
I couldn't get my local channels for about 5 years because of my rural location.
I had a lot of catching up to do.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)a lot in common (She died a few years ago.) She had the TV or a radio on at all times. Three TVs, one in the living room, the bedroom and the kitchen. She went to sleep with the TV on. Every night.
Either the TV or the radio were on at all times, because she hated silence. When I visited her (she had moved to another state) I had some adjustment to do. I thought it was sad she didn't like silence because - I LOOOOOOVE it.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)The Titanic sketch was OK but I didn't like the other one.
TTUBatfan2008
(3,623 posts)...and it's a big BUT. It sure as hell seems that there was some election rigging on the part of the Clinton Machine. Not a very funny thing to joke about.