SNL Review: What Happened to the Politics?

[Britethorn]

Run time: 02:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD7C8oGx7LY   Posted on YouTube: October 02, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 02, 2009 By DU Member: Britethorn Views on DU: 1224

 
Third tine wasn't the charm for SNL's Thursday Night Weekend Update Special.

[Hulk]

1. Bravo!!

Words well spoken!!

[ashling]

2. False Advertising or Misleading Video Intro?

If you didn't see SNL Thursday night (and these days I don't get to see it much at all) you don't know what the fu** this guy was talking about. Well, ok, you get the fact that this guy thinks the sketches and impersonations were pretty lousy.

However, the intro shot was of two of the performers dressed as, I assume from the guys rant, Whoopi Goldberg and somebody, but you don't get to see the skit - or any skit from the show. It would have been nice to have some actual reference to go with what he was saying. After all, the lead did imply as much.

I don't disagree with anything he said. I have no reference. I have to take him at his word ...and,from what little I have seen of SNL lately, I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt .

What's more, the op didn't supply any textual background. It could have helped. A picture might be worth a thousand words, but a "misleading" video can garble those words worse than Sarah Palin at a Katie Couric interview.

To be fair to Britethorn, this seems to be more and more par for the course with DU posts of Youtube clips these days: no context. I am increasingly inclined to skip posts that have a video attached because it is increasingly misleading.

Of course, non-video posts are subject to this "everybody knows what I am talking about" attitude,

Context, more often than not, is key.

you may now return to to your regularly scheduled Youtube.

:P

[truedelphi]

4. The guy in the OP's video sure rambled on a lot

Jeesh! You would have thought that I wrote his script!

[PatSeg]

3. My sentiments exactly

The first show was priceless when they did the Joe Wilson skit. Last night's show was irrelevant and boring. I only watched half of it and then turned it off. I really thought SNL was coming back better than ever, but I was sorely disappointed.

[Mari333]

5. I havent watched snl since the 70s.

wont, either.

[Tx4obama]

6. Yeah, what the hell happened

The first SNL Thursday show was AWESOME
The second SUCKED.
If they don't get with it next week then they might as well hang it up.