Saturday Night Live

jeez, are you guys gonna force me to watch an snl clip
the nazis have already won

there was one almost tossed-off line about where you should buy the cake, but I guess neolib manifestos don't have to be as big as a Tom Friedman book.

I would venture most of the people freaking out didn't watch the sketch and are reacting to a twitter moment or a buzzfeed headline

advocating for purely market-based solutions is a pretty standard line of argumentation for libs, far from surprised it's turned out to be catnip again here

Lord, protect me from my enemies and save me from my allies

alright that was pretty decent and as good as anything i've seen fey do. still no lols but a silly thing to get angry about in this immensely ratfucked cultural moment.

watch baroness von sketch everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNbDGRkeylc

I keep hearing good things about that - once again, bloody geoblocked

a silly thing to get angry about

on this I agree

but what does mr bean think of the nazis?

all the tapes for mr bean goes to nuremberg were destroyed before broadcast so we'll never find out

omg this is an actual thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibquH4oyUIs

if by 'sane' you mean exceedingly glib and worthless than yes https://t.co/QUezF7eWHc

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 18, 2017

the celebs are at it (making me flash back to the most ineffective but self-satisfied responses to Bush) again

— slackbot (@pareene) August 18, 2017

It's really incomprehensible that anyone would ever write a joke without thinking about how it helps advance the cause of revolution, isn't it?

Maybe staying away from the topic entirely is preferable?

"revolution" gtfo

everybody knows America will not being doing revolution as long as the iPhones are working.

jesus pareene kneejerking like usual

omg this is an actual thing.

i had no idea that this was an actual thing when i mentioned mr bean goes to nuremberg and now i feel like i've somehow accidentally willed it into life

how do i undo the horror i have created

Adam what is your weird aversion to public protest/confrontation

i support public protest. it's possible to support the idea of protest and not support all protest. in fact isn't this exactly what our current situation is about?

im in favor of keeping our heads. during the Iraq War there were massive anti-war protests, 100k+ people and stronger. many people so quick to pretend none of that was indicative of any great anti-war outcry now look at a couple hundreds assholes as proof that half the country can be written off.

So you're basically against being against racists?

lot of US Civil War statues where you live in Denmark?

must be nice, living overseas, encouraging roaming bands of people to seek out violence from afar. fuck you.

"many people" is doing a lot of work in that tortured, delusional analogy

delusion is pretending you are Indiana Jones cos you still can't face the fact that your candidate was a horrible person.

Fuck you Adam. Yeah, I think white Americans has a responsibility to protect minorities from armed white nationalists.

Go scream into a cake, you asshole.

lol yeah that totally relates to this discussion, FP

(That was an xp, for once Fred and I agree)

Yeah, I think white Americans has a responsibility to protect minorities from armed white nationalists.

by bringing in more armed white people who are angry and want to fight?

what if a bystander is injured, what if the now much bigger crowd (counter-protesters usually outnumbering nationalists 2:1) and it overwhelms the police force. this creates a chaotic and dangerous atmosphere in that community. that community btw tends to be largely comprised of the minorities we should be protecting.

let's spend that energy on working towards real systemic change. if we cannot convince the nazis we can convince the Democrats to stand for something real for once and work with these groups to affect real change and promote policies that undo the systemic injustices. this will also give Dems something to run on that will attract third party and non voters, giving us a chance to turn things around in 2018/2020.

let's ask what these protests are trying to accomplish aside from symbolic retribution or media narrative wins. these are temporal, and they are exploitative, cos the media uses these archetypes to divide us, as it is the visual-audio version of the System of Oppression. let's look at non violent solutions is all im saying. the 60s provided some practical system-jamming and media hacking that resulted in major legislation and the start of a lot of good. sit ins were non-violent, bus boycotts were non-violent, on the side of the protesters, not always the side of the system. they used this to their advantage, it exposed the cruelty of a racist system to a national audience via TV. let's eat some cake and come up with a gameplan imo.

it was awesome that steve bannon got fired today but fuck i really didn't want to think about tina fey again

30 Rock: CLASSIC
Mean Girls: CLASSIC
SNL tenure: CLASSIC (esp. Palin)

everything since irredeemable DUUUUUUUUUUUUD

lol otm

the Kimmy Schmidt characters were kinda annoying. she rules in pretty much everything she does tho, mad props.

Adam people aren't facing state violence (in this instance), they're facing genocidal rhetoric from nationalists who have demonstrated a penchant for violence, and the state has already proven it's not going to step in to protect people. exposing their cruelty does nothing on its own. by all means advocate for legislative change but direct vigilance is also required. there's a handy guide to both from Cville organizers.
https://medium.com/@solidaritycville/charlottesville-organizers-ask-you-to-take-these-8-actions-b50ec8c3cfbb

trumptrumptrumptrumptrump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yosAVMB47-Y

Shakey otm upthread. It's amazing how abruptly I've shifted from a lifetime of near-obsession with SNL to not watching or caring about the show at all since Lorne saw fit to normalize the nightmare in the White House.

Quite a journey this thread took from the 'Kristen Wiig--Hot or Not' debate before the jump to the discussion today.

anything beats actually discussing SNL imo

Feygate has taken off on my FB. Not bothered by it as much as it has all been from white people and I haven't seen one person ask a POC for their thoughts and listen yet. :/

I don't think anyone has an opinion on Feygate worth listening to

I disagree - I liked Dan's very much

^^

I meant outside of this board of course. We are all geniuses after all.

ahem speak for yourself

just caught a rerun of last season's finale ... best episode in years? farting actress skit, erectile dysfunction skit, rap song, Robo-Chomo, WWE promo ... all GREAT. Scorpio, Jurassic Park ride above average. Dwayne is a very good host.

Kate MacKinnon *thanked Clinton* for "her grace"

roflmao

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ted-koppel-cold-opening/n10770?snl=1

Okay Heidi Gardner's "Girlfriend from Every Boxing Movie" bit on Update was pretty great.

Larry David bombing super hard during the monologue passed through the unfunny event horizon and ended up making me laugh really hard.

xpost

Agreed. The early 80s PSAs skit was pretty funny too.

The camp joke could have been a classic bit, but the delivery was too low-key even by David's usual standards. The "is it me or the the place" line was good though. He's done the Quadimodo routine before and much better (on Conan I think).

Always. pic.twitter.com/1GneOGvdIP

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) November 15, 2017

I always liked Tom Davis better. #AlFranken pic.twitter.com/ksupAvMqAM

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) November 16, 2017

About once a year somebody posts a YT vid on social media of an SNL sketch and is like "I was crying laughing this is incredible" and I click on it and it's always the same try-hard nonsense

this time it was "diner lobster"

i guess i get how someone could have this idea and think "that would be wacky and crazy let's do it" but nobody bothered to make it funny! it's just... "what if we did X but Y?"

maybe i should put this in the unreasonably angry thread because i'm unreasonably angry