There was, if you can believe it, a time when Saturday Night Live was about laughter, not applause line, along with highlighting some great music acts who actually played live. It wasn’t about being part of the In Crowd, and the times when politics was mentioned was funny and not abusive. And there was little of it, even on the episode where Rudy Guiliani came out to do the opening. It probably hasn’t been actually funny since Chris Farley was on it. John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, and Laraine Newman were the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players, which Bill Murray soon joining, along with many other funny folks down the years.
It wasn’t without controversy, nor afraid to take on controversy in a funny way. The skit with Richard Pryor doing a word association game with Chevy Chase, where the N word was dropped. Which Pryor wanted to do, and they made it funny. Garrett Morris did a bit during the news segment over the apparent controversy about the Rolling Stones song “Miss You”, which some people were mad about (even back then, people got their knickers in a twist, but had to actually call or write a letter) due to the line about some Puerto Rican girls are just dying to meet you.” Morris seemed serious, then said “where are these girls?” He caught crap for years. He also went out and sang a few times, with a beautiful operatic voice.
I could go on and on. Coneheads, land shark, 2 wild and crazy guys, Samurai delicatessen, and so much more. They’d make fun of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton. Today? It’s about applause lines, and they only swing one way politically, and there’s way too much
SNL calls out Georgia for its new voting law during cold open
The state of Georgia got called out for its new voting law in the latest “Saturday Night Live” cold open on Saturday.
In another episode of the talk show “Oops, you did it again,” Britney Spears, played by Chloe Fineman, hosts the pariahs of the week to decide who is “not that innocent.”
At the beginning of the segment she says, “Speaking of pariahs, shout out to our sponsor Georgia. Voted best place not to vote,” as the state’s name appears across the bottom of the screen adorned by peaches.
So two pieces during the show mention Georgia (and the Oops skit went into more politics), as written by people who certainly did not read the law and are going with the myths propagated about the new law. It’s definitely not the “new Jim Crow”. When does SNL take on that the state of New York has fewer early voting days than Georgia and similar food and drink restrictions (it’s to keep partisans from interacting with people in line waiting to vote in order to stop influencing them, just like there can be no electioneering within so many feet of a polling station). Georgia allows no-excuse vote-by-mail, while New York requires an excuse.
Oh, and then there’s this
Per the instructions on the NBC website, to enter you send an email to snltickets@nbcuni.com while the lottery is open….
Standby tickets are a gamble, but they’re also your only option if you didn’t win tickets through the lottery or know someone who works at the show….
For both the SNL ticket lottery and standby tickets, audience members must be over 16 years old and have a valid photo ID.
Isn’t that, according to Democrats, racist? They require ID. And NBC requires ID to get tickets for all their shows. Will SNL stop requiring valid identification for their tickets? Of course not. Will they note people need ID to get a COVID shot, and that Dems are pushing for COVID passports? Of course not. Do as I say, not as I do.
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