Creator Ryan Murphy stopped by Watch What Happens Live! on Wednesday night and told host Andy Cohen that the as-yet-untitled season will focus on “the election that we just went through.” When a clearly-shocked Cohen asked if that meant President Trump would be featured as a character, Murphy responded, “Maybe.”
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This weeks edition of TIME magazine features a White House in…
This weeks edition of TIME magazine features a White House in chaos…
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Will SNL get old?
The NEW YORK TIMES has a good story about how, just maybe, the constant Trump humor on SNL will get to be overdone.. too much.. stale..
If President Trump’s shock-and-awe attack on truth, decorum and liberal sensibilities is intended to bludgeon his opponents into submission, “Saturday Night Live” felt like his latest victim this weekend.
Not that the show, which has been one of his most outspoken and popular antagonists, didn’t remain on the attack. Melissa McCarthy reprised her savage impersonation of Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, and Alec Baldwin (in his 17th appearance as host) donned his flaxen wig and prosthetic jowls to play Mr. Trump in a “People’s Court” sketch mocking the president’s attempts to have his travel ban reinstated. Kate McKinnon — who, in a Tatiana Maslany-style tour de force, also appeared as Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Senator Elizabeth Warren — played the presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway trying to seduce her way onto CNN in a “Fatal Attraction” spoof.
And this
Ms. McCarthy opened the show as Mr. Spicer, and the news-briefing sketch was again the high point. Its simple premise — take the thin-skinned, venomous attitude and brazen duplicity the Trump administration has exhibited and render them as naked, schoolyard-bully aggression — was still effective, coupled with Ms. McCarthy’s absolute commitment.
But the sketch was even more underwritten than before, name-checking controversies rather than illuminating them, which has been true of most of the show’s Trump-related material. In the absence of new ideas, old ones recycled from last week’s sketch were simply amped up: The wad of chewing gum was bigger, the weaponized rostrum was now motorized. The physical attacks on reporters here included an assault with a leaf blower, which was jolting and kind of fascinating when the machine was pointed at the face of a reporter played by Ms. Strong, but not so funny when it was used to blow her skirt up over her head.
A few points of fairness to be pointed out.. First of all, even George W. Bush did not face the lampooning of this nature like Trump. Obama? The most that Lorne Michaels gave him were jokes about his opponents or his ears.. It was lame. Eight years of really un-funny political parody.
The Trump material is funny and quite frankly putting a really pungently stale SNL back on the map again. But for how long?
The NYT article correctly mentions that already the Spicer material is getting .. well .. old. Already.
It was funny, sure. And actually the motorized podium was great. But it was simply copying off of what worked last week, and not what should work based on the lampooning.
SNL does this a lot.
Politics aside, Saturday Night LIVE has often become mired in its characters.. the cheerleaders.. the girl who smelled her armpits. They just used taglines and did tag-things for applause and cheap laughs. Funny at first but quickly stale.
That is not being critical of the Baldwin portrayal of Trump (though I think Hammond is the most unfairly forgotten since his impression was almost 100% accurate and spot on) .. and certainly not saying Melissa McCartney didn’t already create a classic comedy character.
But my point really is this: Politics, in itself, is getting to us.
Before SNL began last night, the REAL Donald Trump appeared at a late Saturday night ‘news’ event with the Japanese prime minster. North Korea launched a missile and the US was forced to respond .. or at least let Japan respond and us support. Then the comedy of SNL began.
Netflix has a new show about race.
A new horror movie coming out about race..
The Super Bowl and its commercials featured debates about politics and what team are friends with the Donald. It’s all too much.SNL is not unfunny but may become the victim of the over-doing of political comedy. Political nightmares.
And if SNL does what it has always done, it will do just that… overdo a character to the point of exhaustion.
Until then, enjoy the show.
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Bowling Green Mandela Effect!?
Kellyanne Conway, President Trump’s advisor, got herself in a bit of a jam..
ABC news reported it this way yesterday:
Despite comments made by White House Senior Counselor Kellyanne Conway, there never was a massacre at the hands of Iraqi refugees in the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
In fact there never has been a terror attack of any kind in the city of 60,000, and local officials are now rushing to assure everyone their town is safe – and always has been.
“I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green Massacre,” Conway said on MSNBC on Thursday night. “I mean most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”
It didn’t get covered because it didn’t happen. There was no massacre.
It is true – as ABC News first reported in 2013 – that in 2009 two al-Qaeda terrorists from Iraq were found to be living as refugees in Bowling Green. In court, they later admitted that they had attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
The arrest of the two men, who are now in prison, led to a six month drastic curtailment and overhaul of the Iraqi refugee program in 2011.
The entire saga played out in the small Kentucky town without bloodshed, much less a massacre.And with that, a scandal developed.. a laugh line emerged. And another political football was thrown.
But I try to delve deeper than the static noise..
I saw an interesting theory online tonight regarding this event.. something worth passing on for your thoughtful intercession.
This is not a defense of Conway, nor any attempt at making sense of the Trump Administration thus far.. but it’s being offered up because of my life of the Mandela Effect, the paranormal, and politics..
What if–WHAT IF!–Conway experienced a Mandela Effect? A time slip!? A moment where the past seems to be different from what you thought it was..?
A very public Mandela Effect, perhaps?
This is where politics may rear its head.. and quite possibly where you stand on Trump will have some play in what you think next.
But follow this.. just think..
I know the press is (unfairly?) hammering Kellyanne Conway about this and everyone just assumes she made it up, but does anyone else remember an actual Bowling Green Massacre?
And I’m not talking about the arms smuggling scheme or whatever that all of the articles I’ve read seem to think she might have been talking about. I mean an actual, honest-to-goodness terrorist attack.
I definitely recall a bombing in Bowling Green that killed … maybe a dozen people? I think it happened either at the end of the Bush administration or the first month of the Obama administration. I’m pretty sure it involved a suicide bomb being set off on a city bus. The way I remember it was a young muslim guy–he could have been in his late teens, possibly early twenties? (I’m ashamed to admit this, but I remember seeing his pictures on the news and thinking he was kind of cute.) He hid an IED inside a dufflebag or knapsack or something and I think he detonated it using an ipod or some kind of portable music player.
Later, they arrested a second, older muslim guy. I think he was responsible for building the bomb. They were definitely both Iraqi refugees, like Conway said.
So am I nuts, or did this happen? Everyone at work thinks I’ve lost it.Yes this is a big stretch, and yes most likely many skeptical people will continue to be critical of the original post on REDDIT.
But … for a late night with stars in the sky, such thought seems appropriate. After midnight, no holds are barred.. even political Mandela Effects that are felt far and wide..
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‘South Park’ to Back Off Mocking Trump
‘South Park’ to Back Off Mocking Trump:
“They’re already going out and doing the comedy,” Parker adds. “It’s not something you can make fun of.”
“We’re having our head blown off like everybody else,” Stone says.
“It’s tricky and it’s really tricky now as satire has become reality,” Parker notes. “We were really trying to make fun of what was going on [last season] but we couldn’t keep up. What was actually happening was way funnier than anything we could come up with. So we decided to just back off and let [politicians] do their comedy and we’ll do ours.”
Reality.. comedy.. fiction. It’s tough to tell the different between them anymore.
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Donald Trump will remain EP on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’
Donald Trump will remain EP on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’:
Donald Trump will remain as an executive producer on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” even while serving as president of the United States.
That agreement, first reported by Variety and confirmed by sources at NBC and the Trump campaign, means the president will have an interest in a show aired by a media company that also reports on his presidency – a major conflict of interest for the network.