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EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)
Sat May 5, 2018, 11:47 PM May 2018

SNL was HUHLARIOUS - an instant classic - but it is really a sin and a shame that a comedy show

satirizes a president lying, talking to his fixer on a burn phone, his wife asking if she can testify against him and talking to the porn star he slept with and paid off to hush it up - and everybody gets the joke because none of it is a joke.

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SNL was HUHLARIOUS - an instant classic - but it is really a sin and a shame that a comedy show (Original Post) EffieBlack May 2018 OP
What a cast! Who was Dr Bornstein though? bettyellen May 2018 #1
Martin Short, I think. tanyev May 2018 #3
Yes!! HA!! bettyellen May 2018 #5
Short doing Bornstein as Jerry Lewis. Inspired grantcart May 2018 #9
Best part - DURHAM D May 2018 #2
Great cold open Gothmog May 2018 #4
How is it even possible to "satirize" this administration, anyway?... First Speaker May 2018 #6
Fortunately the nature of satire is to make us laugh through our anger and tears... Hekate May 2018 #7
I liked the 2 FBI guys krispos42 May 2018 #8
I guess we have to laugh so we won't cry. Vinca May 2018 #10

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
6. How is it even possible to "satirize" this administration, anyway?...
Sun May 6, 2018, 01:22 AM
May 2018

...just watch anything they do, live...a committee of Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Michelle Wolf, Hunter Thompson, and God, couldn't match the actual reality of this nightmare...

Hekate

(90,616 posts)
7. Fortunately the nature of satire is to make us laugh through our anger and tears...
Sun May 6, 2018, 02:30 AM
May 2018

It's been around since Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata and Moliere wrote The Misanthrope.

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