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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: 240B on November 12, 2017, 04:33:07 pm
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American News Hub
By Nick Arama
November 12, 2017
Saturday Night Live hasn’t been particularly funny of late. Once upon a time, they used to have a little more balanced comedy. But for a long time, they’ve been completely within the Democratic camp. And with that, not particularly funny.
And when faced with using comedy to call out such evils as Harvey Weinstein alleged assaults on women, they went missing in the fray refusing to even touch the subject when it came out.
When grilled on it, creator Lorne Michaels said, “It’s a New York thing” referring to the fact that the show is made in New York and Weinstein lives in New York.
Yet of course, that ‘New York thing’ hasn’t stopped them from impersonating and mocking Trump, who is from the same New York borough as Weinstein, Queens.
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https://www.americanewshub.com/2017/11/12/snl-mocks-dems-brutal-ad-seen-believed/
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Hilarious, but clearly over the head of the audience.
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Hilarious, but clearly over the head of the audience.
I'm ashamed to say I watched it. It wasn't that funny because their characters bore no resemblance to the people they were supposedly satirizing, either in looks or tone.
They cannot atone to me for their years of unfunny Republican bashing. I will never watch SNL.