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(National Review)   Why does Saturday Night Live refuse to let NRO decide which sketches they air? Is it because they're communists hell bent on destroying America?   (nationalreview.com) divider line 43
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2012-05-08 10:18:53 AM
An NRO article based on reporting by a Daller Caller article. Truly, integrity reigns.
 
2012-05-08 10:20:32 AM
Taking advice on comedy from John Fund is like taking advice on cheeriness from Marvin The Robot.

He ranks way up on the "Punchable Conservatives" list. Humorless, smug, condescending prick. I won't watch Bill Maher's show if he has Fund on. Not that I can't deal with his positions, but that he always represents them poorly. He drags the whole panel down.
 
2012-05-08 10:21:21 AM
DamnYankees: An NRO article based on reporting by a Daller Caller article. Truly, integrity reigns.

Inbreeding is popular among them in more ways than one.
 
2012-05-08 10:39:35 AM
Clearly Lorne Michaels has forgotten the majesty and unparalleled success that was the Half Hour News Hour -- the wellspring, the Intelligent Design of all that is modern comedy.
 
2012-05-08 10:50:22 AM
global.nationalreview.com

Subscribe now and remind yourself how much you hate liberals for 300 repetitive pages.
 
2012-05-08 10:52:05 AM
9 times out of 10 political jokes aren't funny.
 
2012-05-08 10:54:24 AM
James!: 9 times out of 10 political jokes aren't funny.

And yet we elect them anyway.
 
2012-05-08 10:54:27 AM
James!: 9 times out of 10 political jokes aren't funny.

Except for damn near everything Colbert and Stewart do.

9 times out of 10 SNL isn't funny, political or not.
 
2012-05-08 10:59:32 AM
thinkprogress.org2.bp.blogspot.com

Evil DC Pundit or Evil DC Supervillian?

You decide.
 
2012-05-08 11:03:49 AM
The story of his lost sketch means either that his SNL colleagues feel a liberal taboo against mocking Obama in an election year has to be enforced or their sense of humor is impaired. Either way, any thought that SNL is an equal-opportunity political slasher is fast becoming, well, a joke.

you know, there's a third option available too - that it wasn't as funny as the other sketch.
 
2012-05-08 11:07:37 AM
Perhaps the staff of SNL just have the good sense not to click on NRO links.
 
2012-05-08 11:10:02 AM
thomps: The story of his lost sketch means either that his SNL colleagues feel a liberal taboo against mocking Obama in an election year has to be enforced or their sense of humor is impaired. Either way, any thought that SNL is an equal-opportunity political slasher is fast becoming, well, a joke.

you know, there's a third option available too - that it wasn't as funny as the other sketch.


He's so dishonest. They make fun of Obama plenty. Selection bias (and he knows it) used to subconsciously affirm to the mindless that SNL is slanted.

This douche is a poor man's Frank Luntz.
 
2012-05-08 11:17:43 AM
It is broadcast by NBC, which also employs that lesbian lady, so it must be biased against the god fearing elite of this country.
 
2012-05-08 11:18:18 AM
People still make fun of SNL for not being funny?
 
2012-05-08 11:20:51 AM
styckx: People still make fun of SNL for not being funny?

This is Fark. Where mocking Justin Beiber still counts "witty".
 
2012-05-08 11:22:19 AM
styckx: People still make fun of SNL for not being funny?

A conservative complaining about SNL not being funny, at that. It's days like this I wish conservatives were capable of understanding irony.
 
2012-05-08 11:25:23 AM
Lost Thought 00: It is broadcast by NBC, which also employs that lesbian lady,

Wait, Jimmy Kimmel is on ABC, isn't he?
 
2012-05-08 11:27:00 AM
Comedy's political bias is generally to skewer whichever side has the loosest interpretation of the truth. The side with the loosest interpretation of the truth by far is the right.

Honestly, Obama is not all that funny. He's got a sense of humor but on issues he's dead on.

Romney, on the other hand, is comedy gold.
 
2012-05-08 11:35:12 AM
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Lost Thought 00: It is broadcast by NBC, which also employs that lesbian lady,

Wait, Jimmy Kimmel is on ABC, isn't he?


Proof Jimmy Kimmel is not a lesbian. (The original, because why not)
 
2012-05-08 12:04:59 PM
SNL is just as funny as it's always been.

So are the Simpsons.

Please get over the fact that you are growing up and remembering things better than they were.
 
2012-05-08 12:19:44 PM
bdub77: Comedy's political bias is generally to skewer whichever side has the loosest interpretation of the truth. The side with the loosest interpretation of the truth by far is the right.

Honestly, Obama is not all that funny. He's got a sense of humor but on issues he's dead on.

Romney, on the other hand, is comedy gold.


Except that the skit being referenced is an accurate portrayal of one of Obama's quirks, but the network is too afraid to run with it. It wasn't even that harsh, especially compared to what SNL has done to conservative figures past and present. It's a little tiresome to see the liberal bias in Hollywood (and New York in this case), and I say that as a liberal myself.

Say what you want about John Fund, but he's bang on with this issue.
 
2012-05-08 12:26:02 PM
animal900: bdub77: Comedy's political bias is generally to skewer whichever side has the loosest interpretation of the truth. The side with the loosest interpretation of the truth by far is the right.

Honestly, Obama is not all that funny. He's got a sense of humor but on issues he's dead on.

Romney, on the other hand, is comedy gold.

Except that the skit being referenced is an accurate portrayal of one of Obama's quirks, but the network is too afraid to run with it. It wasn't even that harsh, especially compared to what SNL has done to conservative figures past and present. It's a little tiresome to see the liberal bias in Hollywood (and New York in this case), and I say that as a liberal myself.

Say what you want about John Fund, but he's bang on with this issue.


and what "quirk" would that be? are debunked attempts to frame political opponents' messages now considered to be personal quirks?
 
2012-05-08 12:50:38 PM
Jim from Saint Paul: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Lost Thought 00: It is broadcast by NBC, which also employs that lesbian lady,

Wait, Jimmy Kimmel is on ABC, isn't he?

Proof Jimmy Kimmel is not a lesbian. (The original, because why not)


One of the funniest things on late night television in the last few years.
 
2012-05-08 12:52:45 PM
What would literally any other president have done differently after having America's number one enemy killed in an unquestionably ballsy raid? In an election year, at that! As if GW or Romney would never speak of it again. How can anyone take this a-hole seriously?
 
2012-05-08 01:03:25 PM
It's a comedy show.
They write a thousand ideas and only go with a fraction of what was proposed. Most of the time the rest goes in the trash bin and is never seen again.
Nature of the business.
 
2012-05-08 01:08:15 PM
Hell with Fartbama and Rmoney. NRO FOR PREZNIT
 
2012-05-08 01:17:39 PM
MorganFreeman: What would literally any other president have done differently after having America's number one enemy killed in an unquestionably ballsy raid? In an election year, at that! As if GW or Romney would never speak of it again. How can anyone take this a-hole seriously?

Any and everyone else would trumpet it to the heavens.
 
2012-05-08 01:18:31 PM
thomps:
and what "quirk" would that be?


The one that the skit intended to lampoon, which was also the topic of this article. Or did I misunderstand your question?
 
2012-05-08 01:19:33 PM
Were't these the same people who( a few years ago) were defending the fact that conservatives dominate the Radio AM airwaves?

suck it.
 
2012-05-08 01:19:59 PM
animal900: thomps:
and what "quirk" would that be?

The one that the skit intended to lampoon, which was also the topic of this article. Or did I misunderstand your question?


what was the quirk that the skit intended to lampoon?
 
2012-05-08 01:29:08 PM
James!: 9 times out of 10 political jokes aren't funny.

That's never stopped SNL from running an un-funny sketch.
 
2012-05-08 01:34:02 PM
"...If that's true it shows just how far American comedy has become enervated by having an African-American liberal hero in the White House."

HUH?!
 
2012-05-08 02:13:16 PM
Yes, why won't ANYONE criticize Obama? You know except for Fox, Townhall, WND, Joe Arpaio, Bill Oreilly, Glenn Beck, all Republicans, NRO, current GOP candidates, former GOP candidates, Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, and any professional blogger with a wordpress site. He's soooo protected.
 
2012-05-08 02:32:50 PM
He conveniently fails to note that half of the skits written for each week's show get cut after rehearsal.
 
2012-05-08 03:10:27 PM
Was anyone at NRO alive during Clinton's second term? SNL had a field day with it BECAUSE IT WAS FUNNY. It wasn't a Democrat vs Republican thing, it was a COMEDY thing. So was Bush II, so was Bush I, so was Reagan, so was...
 
2012-05-08 03:30:11 PM
Since Victoria Jackson left, that show has just gone downhill.
 
2012-05-08 06:44:45 PM
Yes, yes! It's all going according to plan! Soon, SNL will render even the mighty NRO impotent, ignored and fuming in a corner while the rest of America gets behind their African-American liberal hero!

MWAH-HAHAHAHAHA!

Seriously, though, can the NRO get any more petty?
 
2012-05-08 06:57:00 PM
animal900: Except that the skit being referenced is an accurate portrayal of one of Obama's quirks, but the network is too afraid to run with it. It wasn't even that harsh, especially compared to what SNL has done to conservative figures past and present. It's a little tiresome to see the liberal bias in Hollywood (and New York in this case), and I say that as a liberal myself.

Say what you want about John Fund, but he's bang on with this issue.


There was already a sketch dealing with this exact 'quirk' in relation to this exact same subject matter. But you and the NRO can keep biatching about it if it makes you feel better about your preconceived notions about the media

By the way, this "quirk" is something every President ever has done repeatedly, and the fact you term it that way makes me think that you're just a really good concern troll.
 
2012-05-08 07:00:52 PM
Jim from Saint Paul: styckx: People still make fun of SNL for not being funny?

This is Fark. Where mocking Justin Beiber still counts "witty".


Mention someone you like on SNL (or don't like) so one of the resident geniuses here can post "who?"

That's a damn laff riot.
 
2012-05-08 07:02:59 PM
bingethinker: He conveniently fails to note that half of the skits written for each week's show get cut after rehearsal.

I blame George Soros.
 
2012-05-08 07:06:51 PM
Somebody's "quirk" is concern trolling.
 
2012-05-08 10:35:00 PM
thomps: animal900: bdub77: Comedy's political bias is generally to skewer whichever side has the loosest interpretation of the truth. The side with the loosest interpretation of the truth by far is the right.

Honestly, Obama is not all that funny. He's got a sense of humor but on issues he's dead on.

Romney, on the other hand, is comedy gold.

Except that the skit being referenced is an accurate portrayal of one of Obama's quirks, but the network is too afraid to run with it. It wasn't even that harsh, especially compared to what SNL has done to conservative figures past and present. It's a little tiresome to see the liberal bias in Hollywood (and New York in this case), and I say that as a liberal myself.

Say what you want about John Fund, but he's bang on with this issue.

and what "quirk" would that be? are debunked attempts to frame political opponents' messages now considered to be personal quirks?


Calling his opponent "Teve Torbs"
 
2012-05-08 11:30:02 PM
What on earth does the National Reconnaissance Organization have to do with failed attempts at skit comedy?
 
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