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SNL's Fair and Balanced Fox News Election Night Sketch

Dennis DiClaudio — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:16:04 +0000

I usually don't watch Saturday Night Live, because I already saw that one sketch they do. But, as it turns out, sometimes they do some other sketches. Like this one…

Daily Show: CNN Fact Checks SNL, Not Politicians

Matt Tobey — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:46:45 +0000

CNN must be stopped. Just when you think they can't get any dumber, they reach levels of dumbness that can't be described with human language. If this shit keeps up, I'm going to have to start painting murals or doing interpretive dances to convey how head-explodingly inept these clowns are.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

SNL Weighs in on the Nobel Peace Prize, So You Know This Is Gonna Be Good

Dennis DiClaudio — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:56:56 +0000

Speaking of dubious honors from institutions that are considerably less prestigious now than they were a couple decades ago…

Stop Making Glenn Beck Dance Around in Sarah Palin's Skin Suit Inside His Mind!

Dennis DiClaudio — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:25:58 +0000

Crazy people, in my experience, never respond well to being told they're crazy*…

Glenn Beck went on another one of his they're out to get me paranoid rants today, and he even included the impersonation of him on last Thursday's Saturday Night Live Weekend Update special.

Beck said, "Don't think that what happened to Sarah Palin didn't go through my mind when I saw my character on Saturday Night Live."

Believe me, I didn't for a moment not think that. I'm one-hundred percent certain his brain weasels were all over that one.

^{* Us narcissists, on the other hand, will accept any opportunity to get talked about.}

Robert Gibbs Discusses the White House's "Strategery" in Dealing with Nuclear Proliferation

Dennis DiClaudio — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:50:46 +0000

Yesterday — while discusses the likelihood of all of us being instantaneously vaporized by the massive energy output of nuclear weapons — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs fielded a question from a reporter who asked about the White House's "strategery" in keeping us all safe.

Ah, it's good to laugh sometimes…

There seems to be some confusion in the YouTube comments concerning the origins of the word "stratetgery"…

It's a stephen colbert word… not SNL. (joeben81)

It's not a "Saturday Night Live word." SNL used it in a skit because then candidate Bush actually said it during the debate that they were parodying. (ChunAsperEndao)

Oddly enough, for the first time in the history of ever, YouTube commenters have turned out to look dumb, because Gibbs was totally right. It's an SNL word…

The word "strategery" was coined for a Saturday Night Live sketch, written by James Downey, airing October 7, 2000, which satirized the performances of George W. Bush and Al Gore, two candidates for President of the United States, during the first presidential debate for election year 2000. Comedian Will Ferrell played Bush and used the word "strategery"…

However…

After the 2000 presidential election, people inside the Bush White House reportedly began using the term as a joke, and it later grew to become a term of art among them meaning oversight of any activity by Bush's political consultants. Bush's strategists also came to be known within the White House as "The Department of Strategery" or the "Strategery Group."

A February 9, 2001, transcript of a CNN interview attributes George Bush using the term, presumably as an intentional nod to the comedy sketch.

Alright, now that we've tackled that incredibly important issue, I think we can all sleep a little more soundly tonight, safe in the knowledge that we know where a made-up word got made-up.

Live from Thursday Night, It's a Pretty Decent Joe Wilson Sketch

Dennis DiClaudio — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:38:28 +0000

In an attempt to cause as much cognitive dissonance amongst viewers as possible, last night Saturday Night Live premiered its new half-hour, prime-time, Thursday evening version of Weekend Update starring former cast member Amy Poehler. (I was completely sober, and it still gave me a moment's pause to reflect on the nature of objective reality and the holographic nature of the universe.)

Anyway, the fake news stuff is pretty much just as funny — or not funny — as you'd expect it to be, but it did open with a sketch worth watching about how Congress did Joe Wilson wrong — which still ends with "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night" (???)…

"I don't know if you know this about me, but I'm not known for any other things. Nothing!"

Perfect.

Al Franken's Other SCOTUS Confirmation Hearing

Dennis DiClaudio — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:24:47 +0000

You know, watching Sen. Al Franken up there on the TV screen at a Supreme Court confirmation hearing, I thought I was getting kind of a deja vu-y kind of vibe.

And then Matt Tobey sent me this…

Weird!

But, no. That's not it.

Oh, wait! This is it…

I just think it's so adorable watching him go through the motions of an activity that he doesn't really understand.

He thinks he's people!

SNL: Timothy Geithner's Economy Crisis Idea Hotline

Dennis DiClaudio — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:52:53 +0000

You know it's some pretty weird days we're living through when not only do average people know the name of the Secretary of the Treasury, but Saturday Night Live is actually doing sketches about him. And as their lead-in segment…

How the Republicans Will Take Back Congress

Dennis DiClaudio — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:12:59 +0000

Holy wow! Saturday Night Live has somehow managed to figure out a way to make fun of the Republican minority in Congress. How did they possibly manage to do that?

From the Pork Barrel: Goodbye White House, Hello Roadhouse

Dennis DiClaudio — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:40:03 +0000

* What if George Bush and Ron Paul were the stars of a comic book adaptation of the movie Roadhouse from 1989? Yeah, but what if?

* Playing poker with Harry Reid has got to be the best money-making enterprise ever invented.

* Turns out that it was Tina Fey and Katie Couric who were the ones exploiting Sarah Palin's manufactured image as a down-home hockey mom maverick. You owe me a Coke.

* The Washington Post is calling Barack Obama "Nixonian" — conservatives, liberals alike despair for appropriate reaction.

* Barack Obama decides to keep yet another Bush appointee on staff.

* Politico: "Daschle floats through Senate hearing" — Sounds to me like somebody needs to call a paranormalist.