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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSNL 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
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)1. What a cast! Who was Dr Bornstein though?
tanyev
(42,540 posts)3. Martin Short, I think.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)5. Yes!! HA!!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)9. Short doing Bornstein as Jerry Lewis. Inspired
DURHAM D
(32,607 posts)2. Best part -
Trump asks Stormy what she wants and her answer: Your resignation.
Gothmog
(145,046 posts)4. Great cold open
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)6. How is it even possible to "satirize" this administration, anyway?...
...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...
It's been around since Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata and Moliere wrote The Misanthrope.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)8. I liked the 2 FBI guys
Didn't say a word, but the expressions were priceless!!!
Vinca
(50,248 posts)10. I guess we have to laugh so we won't cry.