O/T-SNL coming up in 1 min. (ET). I wonder if there will be a good political opening scene.

[jenmito]

I hope they do something about the Repubs. and their empty budget plan or something.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Usually, when you expect one thing out of them,

you get something else.

Don't doubt that they might trash our President.

[jenmito]

2. It's a "message from the President." Looks like they ARE trashing him about

firing Wagoner from GM. His message is that he's singling out which companies/brands' CEOs he's going to fire. :eyes:

[Pirate Smile]

3. Any more details?

[jenmito]

6. He was going product by product, like "Pepsi yes," 7 Up "no, you should've seen it

coming..." They showed more things and he just said yes or no and why. He named Playboy and other dirty magazines and thanked Bill Clinton for helping. He ended by saying, "If you want more information, go to www.toughbastard.org.

[itsrobert]

14. Yup, pretty lame

Bill Murray is turning over in his grave.

[JSK]

16. What grave?

Isn't Bill Murray still with us?

[itsrobert]

17. Just a sick joke

Pay no attention to my mischief.

[FrenchieCat]

7. Right. Wagoner was a good guy, somehow......

And Bankers, even if new on the job, are Satans. See how easy that is? :shrug:

[itsrobert]

4. Weak opening

Pretty shitty opening. Freepers wouldn't even find it funny.

[Ilsa]

5. It was weak. nt

[ShadowLiberal]

8. Probably the worst SNL opening I've seen in a long while

Much as I didn't like some of the SNL openings attacking us during the election, at least those were funny, like the Biden/Murtha trying to blow the election one. This was just weak, if they can't make the president funny then they should do an opening about something else.

[ChazII]

9. Not worth the 90 minute wait

for those on Mountain time? (AZ does not do DST)

[customerserviceguy]

10. It was funny

I think some of you are missing the point. The chattering over on the wingnut side is that President Obama is "running" the country by running the businesses in the country. The opening skit turns that whole thing into an exaggeration to show just how foolish the idea is.

The GM board did not dismiss Wagoner, the President asked him to resign, and he did. There's a multi-million dollar pension to cushion the blow of a man who has no prospect of being hired anywhere anyway.

Watching "Obama" pick and choose which companies to "save" and which ones to "dump" with Fred Armisten doing the Obama impression that he's honed during the campaign season was funny! Even the fake website mentioned at the end took you to the SNL homepage, they thought everything out.

[ChazII]

12. Agree with you 100%. And I got a laugh

from ASU in and U of A out. I doubt the rest of the country understood the reason though -- and it has nothing to do with basketball. :D

[Hello_Kitty]

19. People in AZ totally got it.

Especially those of us who don't give a hoot about the ASU/U of A rivalry.

[grantcart]

25. why is ASU in and U of A out?

[ChazII]

29. Pres. Obama is speaking in Tempe - ASU

for their graduation this May.

edited for spelling

[itsrobert]

13. You think we didn't get the joke?

We all got the joke and it wasn't that funny.

[customerserviceguy]

21. I'll admit

like most SNL skits, it went on way too long after the punchline was made, but last night's show was pretty funny, overall. I liked the one about the comics characters trying to come together to find ideas to save their newspapers.

I'm just glad that President Obama has a tougher skin than some of his supporters.

[IDemo]

11. This show ceased being funny decades ago

Each time I try to give it another chance, it makes a poor high school play look excellent in comparison.

[PBS Poll-435]

24. It's good enough.

Perhaps the single biggest reason Palin is still in AK is because of Tina Fey and SNL.

[jbnow]

28. The opening and news are still usually worth a watch for me nt

[AngryAmish]

15. I think it is time to shut SNL down

At least until they get their minds right. We don't need this.

[geiger]

18. they could save face and go on hiatus for awhile, at least get away from political humor.

Politics isn't funny anymore. It's about our survival.

[customerserviceguy]

20. They did a great job last fall

of punching through the mystique of Caribou Barbie, you've got to give them that.

Late night comedians are going to have fun with President Obama, he knew he signed up for that when he took the job. And I'm guessing he has enough of a sense of humor to find most of it funny. As long as we're not dealing with vicious baseless attacks, it might be good for us to reflect on why many people find this funny.

Remember the flap over the fist-bump New Yorker cover? This was pretty much the same thing. The American public likes to laugh at their leaders, its one of the thousands of differences we have from the people of North Korea that we treasure.

[tammywammy]

22. I thought it was funny n/t

[951-Riverside]

23. The opening sketch was a commercial

I noticed MadTV inserted t-mobile commercials in their skits too but lets face it times are getting ...tougher.

[PBS Poll-435]

26. The "Angelina"/"Madonna" thing on Weekend Update was very funny

"I have a baybay tree"

"I have a space baybay"

[Sebastian Doyle]

27. Armisen keeps getting worse

Does he write this shit himself, or did he hire someone from RimJob's digital trailer park to do it for him. It's all right wing partisan bullshit, and it ain't funny.

If there are any honest Republicans left in this country, they would have to admit that Will Ferrel's portrayal of the Chimp was funny. Darrell Hammond's Bill Clinton impersonation is still funny. Lorne Michaels could find a better "Obama" than this hack.