spanone
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Sun Dec-07-03 10:17 AM
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Al Sharpton on SNL??? Not on my TV........... Rerun. |
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WTF? I'm wondering why our local NBC affiliate chose not to show Saturday Night Live with Al Sharpton hosting? Is this a local "political" choice?
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Sun Dec-07-03 10:25 AM
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1. Ask them what happened. |
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Maybe they had a technical problem receiving the program. Then ask them when they are going to air the AS SNL show. If they don't, report them to the affiliate. I bet there is some place you can file a complaint.
Where are you (roughly)?
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Sun Dec-07-03 10:35 AM
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Sun Dec-07-03 10:37 AM
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6. They made fun of you on the air..... |
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Some affiliates chose not to run it for equal-time laws might apply.
On Weekend Update, they ripped on the 8 cities who opted out....they said of Nasville "Ya'll come back now, queers" (it sounds funnier when you actually hear it)
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Sun Dec-07-03 10:27 AM
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Bad skits, almost no politics (altho there was a kinda funny skit with the candidates hanging out at a pretty gay edwards house (joke: if he kissed ass any harder he'd be sucking blood.
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Sun Dec-07-03 10:28 AM
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3. It would trigger equal time laws |
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many states didn't show it.
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Sun Dec-07-03 04:06 PM
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10. Yeah Fork, You Are Correct !!! |
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My local NBC affiliate, KCRA Sacramento, ran a crawler saying that because Sharpton had been certfied for the election by the Secretary of State, they would not be able to show it. Equal time laws apparently. Good call.
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Sun Dec-07-03 04:36 PM
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11. So, why did other California NBC affiliates... |
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show the program? KCRA (Sacramento) is my closest NBC station but I was able to pick SNL up from San Jose. Individual affiliates made the choice, and I have to wonder what KCRA's motives really are. Something stinks in Sacramento, besides Arnie.
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Sun Dec-07-03 10:32 AM
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Al was pretty good but god it was sooooooooo unfunny. It got to the point for me were it became painful. Their writers suck.
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Sun Dec-07-03 10:35 AM
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5. I read last year that Tina Fey was signed |
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for a 4 year contract as head writer for SNL. I guess we can look forward to 3 more years of unfunny skits.
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Sun Dec-07-03 11:18 AM
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7. It was pretty lame - I switched to MadTV |
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like I usually do. Always better, tho not "live."
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Sun Dec-07-03 11:20 AM
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8. I watched four minutes, then cut to infomercials |
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Maybe I'm trying to hard to respect Sharpton after the Brawley thing and his connections (now severed) with D'Amato but I couldn't sit through more than two minutes of his James Brown act.
Had to turn it off.
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Sun Dec-07-03 11:31 AM
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9. It wasn't on here in St Louis and I'm irked about it. |
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Sun Dec-07-03 04:44 PM
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12. Clips are online here |
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