All About McCain

[tod]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Can a candidate dump their VP choice once the early voting beings? ie. I hear Ohio can start voting tomorrow.

I would say yes, because technically a vote is for electors committed to a particular presidential candidate, not the actual candidate.

--t

[bewitched]

Because I'm awake, bored and well, it's damn funny:

[Ghoulish Delight]

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.

[3894]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

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.

Palin pretty much returns the favor. She absolutely does not represent rural people all over the United States.

[Gemini Cricket]

I enjoyed both Fey skits and the Bill Clinton skit during Weekend Update last Saturday. But I gotta tell ya, I didn't like anything else. SNL is stinking right now. I got what they were trying to do with the NY Times skit, but I didn't find it funny. And it had nothing to do with the subject matter, it was just dull.

I can't tell if Tina Fey's portrayal of Palin is helping her or obliterating her.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I got what they were trying to do with the NY Times skit, but I didn't find it funny. And it had nothing to do with the subject matter, it was just dull.

Maybe it's because I've been to/have family in Alaska that I connected with it. I mean, they had me laughing immediately with, "Okay, how many of you don't know how to drive a stick shift?" Seriously dude, NY Times reporters would be toast in two days in Alaska.

But yes, really really crappy writing overall on the show. Except for the final sketch on that James Franco show (the Willem Defoe sketch). That was damn funny and I gotta wonder how much truth there was to it.

Oh, and the Of Mice and Men alternate ending. Hahahah.

I can't tell if Tina Fey's portrayal of Palin is helping her or obliterating her.

She doesn't need Fey's help, she's obliterating herself quite efficiently.

[Gemini Cricket]

I'd love to go to Alaska. Unfortunately, I can't take a cruise up there. But I'd love to see it.

The debate sketch was just okay, too. The McCain guy was dead on, the Obama guy not so much. He got the 'start every sentence with "look"' thing down but that's about it. And there was a ton of things they could have made fun of when it came to the first pres debate. 1. The whole 'I have a bracelet too' thing. 2. McCain and his Sharpie. 3. Jim Lehrer's looks to each candidate. I found a couple of them comedic. 4. McCain just barelling through not letting anyone else talk. 5. McCain's bad tie. 6. Obama's huge smile. 7. McCain's tribute to Kennedy could have been milked... So much material there unused.

[Strangler Lewis]

I think Fred Armisen's impression was contrived during the primary season with the intention of making Obama look stupid in order to boost Hillary. Now, they're stuck with it.

[Snowflake]

Hey.JPG

[wendybeth]

Great one, Snow!