Still Not Funny
The last few Saturday Night Lives, I've noticed Weekend Update has featured jokes with the following comic premise: Obama is a brilliant politician who's fighting to help us with health care reform while the Republicans are evil obstructionists.
I'm not saying you can't get laughs with this. But there are other premises that offer fertile ground. How about the idea that Obama has been trying to pass this bill for almost a year, and keeps putting up new deadlines when the old ones pass by? Or that the public keeps saying they don't want this while the head Dems put on a deaf act and keep saying they do? Or how the Dems are running away from this in fear, and have to be whipped into shape so they can later get kicked out of office? SNL should consider some of these and it'll be a lot easier to write jokes.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:40 AM
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So your suggestion is why not not throw out the political assumptions that have lain behind the show forever? Because Mad TV failed
Slightly on topic, have you seen the SNL Presidents reunion?
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f5a57185bd/funny-or-die-s-presidential-reunion
All the presidential chracterizations since Gerald Ford are presented by the original performers, except of course Phil Hartman isn't around to do Ronald reagan. Jim Cary fills in this roll (and isn't nearly as funny as Hartman used to be).
The bit goes pretty easy on President Obama, but honestly, it is a fairly sympathetic look at all the past characters. Essentially, Obama blames all our problems on the whole passel of past presidents, Republican and Democrat alike.
SNL claims to be evenhanded. Furthermore, they've shown they're capable of mocking both sides. So I'm surprised they've done jokes that go against popular assumptions. Just last Saturday they started Update with a joke stating Obama meeting the Repubs was like beating his head against a wall, and it was such pure propaganda it didn't get a peep from the crowd.
By the way, I'm not the biggest fan of Mad TV, but it was on for 14 seasons. You call that a failure?
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