Aside from Tina Fey's compulsory Palin impersonation, Saturday Night Live has sucked, imo, thus far in its first few episodes.
There have however been a few bright spots. Weekend Update is one. But there was a sketch in the James Franco show that is getting a lot of ink that I thought was hilarious and I think is getting a raw deal.
It's getting a lot of flack because it supposedly implies that Palin's husband is engaged in incest with their daughters. If you've seen the sketch, you'd know that the reality is they were trying to make fun of the NY Times, and others, for shoddy, sensationalist reporting. Unfortunately the writing for that particular joke was REALLY bad and it came off totally wrong. Dumb that people can't figure out what they really meant, but I understand what the confusion is.
But what really sucks is that the rest of that sketch was hilarious and, ironically, a pretty good jab at us liberal city dwellers. The basic premise was that the reason Palin was vetted so poorly by the media before McCain announced her was that reporters from the lower 48 were too scared to go to Alaska and survive without their lattes for 2 weeks and the absurd sterotype image they've got of Alaska. But because people have decided it's offensive to have suggested incest (even though it was really trying to show how retarded it was to suggest incest), the clip isn't available anywhere.
