Saturday Night Live

I like Bobby. I'll miss drunk uncle, even though he hasn't done it in a while iirc.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, May 20, 2017 6:07 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh hey, he came back

The erectile dysfunction and "most evil invention" bits were great.

the farting sketch was funny. farting is always funny, I don't know why. I think th efact that half the sounds were more like animals than farts made it work.

the jurassic park ride sketch wasn't funny at all but it had an adorable baby pig

apparently sasheer is gone now too?! wtf :( not that they ever used her super well, but she's incredible

She's gonna get her own vehicle and become a minor star

She's too good for this iteration of SNL

Bayer is a big loss. She's one of the most reliable players.

apparently sasheer is gone now too?! wtf :(

Noooooooooooooooooooooo

Beck Bennett is the show's anchor now.

And McKinnon, obvs.

At this point, I wanted Kenan to stay there for 30 years just to see if it can be done.

otm x2

Hallelujah cold open was horrible the first time, unimaginably worse the second. Such a waste. I almost always like Weekend Update, but this one felt really weak, low on jokes.

wait, they did another Hallelujah?

i'm never watching this show again

xp yeah but it was at least a joke this time

waste of space, as if they ran out of ideas

on SNL get ouuttta here

what was this Hallelujah about? there had to be some sort of rhetorical thrust there, right? (Sadly, I suspect not)

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Oh hey, everyone on Twitter with "stark moral clarity" (tm) are shitting on Tina Fey's dumb joke from last night

Sure nazis are marching in the streets, but the real enemy is the creator of Emmy-winning comedy 30 Rock

Tina Fey's dumb joke from last night

You're going to have to be more specific.

the whole "let me eat sheet cake" thing

imagine if she ate donuts instead

Tina Fey talking sense here.

well people hate this and yet cried in joy when a Leonard Cohen song was used for Hillary Clinton SNL audience isnt the brightest

Could you possibly take her advice with regards to this board and fuck off somewhere to eat a cake?

all the SNL shit is geoblocked here, was the gist of the argument really "stay home and eat cake instead of demonstrating" or was there more to it

Why are they doing SNL skits on Thursday

the crux of it was this:

“Next time when you see a bunch of white boys in polo shirts screaming about taking our country back, and you want to scream, ‘It’s not our country; we stole it from the Native Americans, and when they have a peaceful protest at Standing Rock, we shoot at them with rubber bullets, but we let you chinless turds march through the streets with semi-automatic weapons!’ When you want to yell that, don’t yell it at the Klan, Colin—yell it into the cake. Then when Ann Coulter crawls out of her roach motel and says, ‘Antifa attacked Republicans in Berkeley,’ and you’re like ‘O.K., yard-sale Barbie, but the other side is Nazis and Klansmen. And also, who drove the car into the crowd, Hillary’s e-mails?

:/

I completely played myself today by even giving half a fuck what Tina Fey has to say about anything. she wins, I lose

What are people upset about? (I'm assuming the upset people are non-Nazis?)

I mean I know our eyes turn to Tina Fey after each national tragedy. Has she let us down this time?

was the gist of the argument really "stay home and eat cake instead of demonstrating" or was there more to it

she advocates patronizing jewish, black, and minority establishments instead of going to these rallies.

i know, what a horrible person.

http://splinternews.com/tina-feys-response-to-charlottesville-is-white-privileg-1797971194

Yes, she’s right to be concerned about safety. White supremacist rallies have a very good chance of escalating into violence. But to actually advise people to not protest Nazis can only come from someone of immense privilege, from someone whose community who actually faces no threat, and from someone who will most likely make it out okay if things go south.

I’m sure Fey’s heart’s in the right place, but it just goes to prove once again that even liberals can fall into the trap of assigning the violence that white supremacists cause to the people trying to stand against it—the flip side of the very same rhetoric Donald Trump was spouting earlier this week.

Ignoring Nazis isn’t taking the high road. Protesting and facing potential danger is taking the high road. Obviously, we cannot afford to sit at home. While I wholeheartedly believe “sheetcaking” is a great coping mechanism that can cure many a broken heart, and supporting Jewish and black-owned businesses is a great thing, the last time we let Nazis scream into the empty air, it ended up in a fucking genocide.

But to actually advise people to not protest Nazis can only come from someone of immense privilege

tbf there are plenty advising the opposite that also have immense privilege and no connection to the communities where these rallies will take place.

yeah, i was going to say, a rich actress telling people to go out and risk their bodies wouldn't have played well either

x-post: That is not an argument for anything... That's just playing 'who's the most privileged'. The point isn't that Tina Fey is privileged, the point is that her argument is a result of that privilege. And she could just say that she would show up herself as well.

'Have you ever noticed how it's only privileged people who try and examine their own privilege? So clearly that's a bad thing to do, because only privileged people do it'

those are definitely the two options xxp

i'm glad that things aren't so serious that we can't afford to make stupid critiques of the implications of off-season SNL weekend update comments

my two questions are: what the hell is sheet cake? why is snl on during the week during its hiatus?

the hilary's emails bit was the real nadir of that bit. literally a joke made by thousands of people every day, just lazy.

SNL is lazy empty bs 99% of the time, will never watch again and will never forgive Lorne for promoting Trump

The Fey sketch was about stress eating out of despair. The people outraged over it as done sort of commentary on activism are deranged or just not being on the level.

you would know about that

idk if you heard but she's unspeakably vile

That Tina Fey line asking "who drove the car into the crowd? Hillary's emails?" is unspeakably vile and she should never have a platform

— mr email (@alecolyte) August 18, 2017

I can think of a lot of ways to make it a stress-eating joke without arguing that giving minority-owned businesses your money will rid us of the problem nearly as effectively as direct action will. People are getting hurt and killed, you really think people aren't going to take this shit seriously? xxp

Fey is the distaff Andy Borowitz

come on, she's not a hack