Unfunny “Saturday Night Live” SLAMMED by former comedians

Nordberg said:
Another difference is Obama has a sense of humor. Trump is so fragile he wont even show up for the corespondents dinner. He tweets about SNL, for crying out loud. He has nothing better to do? What president spends time bitching about a comedian or Baldwin? There is no bottom with Trump. he is such a petty little girl.
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self deprecating humor is a lost art


I use it all the time in the real world

its funny to see those who don't get it

they actually get confused


this humor of the fake bluster is sooo common now it throws people for a loop
 
The Ugly Truth said:
by Walter W. Murray, reporter

“Saturday Night Live” has just been called out for the biggest sin in comedy.

It’s not for jokes that have gone too far.

No, there’s a much bigger crime, and that’s when your jokes are NOT FUNNY!

It’s supposed to be a humor show, after all, but right now “SNL” is being slammed from both sides for its increasingly humorless portrayal of President Donald Trump by Alec Baldwin.

Critics and alumni of the famed show are taking to the media to condemn the unfunny, anti-Trump propaganda.

“Alec Baldwin is a brilliant actor… he’s not a comedian,” Rob Schneider, who was on the show for four years in the 1990s, told The New York Daily News last month. “I don’t find his impression to be comical.”

He said Baldwin “so clearly hates the man he’s playing.”

Comic Joe Piscopo, who played Frank Sinatra on the show in the 1980s, also slammed SNL after they invited porn star Stormy Daniels on earlier this month.

“Don’t put Stormy Daniels in there,” he said on Fox Business. “What do I tell my kids?”

Piscopo said he’s a lifelong Democrat – but he supports Trump, and he’s clearly tired of how the president is being portrayed.

Even the media, which normally fawns over “SNL” and Baldwin’s increasingly bitter appearances, is panning the show.

“Your cold opens are terrible, cringeworthy pieces of self-satisfied liberal propaganda that are sometimes so bad they seem like parodies of themselves,” Harry Cheadle, West Coast editor of Vice, wrote in an open letter to the show.

Presidents have always been targets of SNL. That’s what satire is all about, after all.

But it had always hit both sides. And it was usually funny.

“You never knew which way they leaned politically,” Schneider told The Daily News. “You kind of assumed they would lean more left and liberal, but now the cat’s out of the bag and they are completely against Trump, which I think makes it less interesting because you know the direction the piece is going.”

While the show has always leaned left, other Republican presidents have gotten much better treatment.

Will Ferrell portrayed President George W. Bush as a word-mangling dunce, but at the end of the day he was also endearing.

Bush himself even got a kick out of it, joking last year that he should get credit for mangling the words first.

Bush himself even got a kick out of it, joking last year that he should get credit for mangling the words first.

Dana Carvey’s President George H. W. Bush was an out-of-touch elitist, but the overall impression was as gentle as it was funny.

“To me, the genius of Dana Carvey was Dana always had empathy for the people he played,” Schneider said. “Alec Baldwin has nothing but a fuming, seething anger towards the person he plays.”

Carvey and Bush eventually became friends.



“We had so many warm moments,” Carvey told Deadline last month. “It was a different time; it wasn’t scorched earth, angry politics.”

He even got an invite to the White House after Bush lost the 1992 election!

And who can forget Phil Hartman’s portrayal of Ronald Reagan. In public, Hartman’s Reagan was slow, soft-spoken, absent-minded and seemingly clueless.

But in front of his aides, he transformed into a multilingual mastermind, running the entire administration himself and leaving everyone else in the dust.

Whether you loved the show or hated it… whether your supported those presidents or not… you’d have to admit the portrayals were done in the best spirit of satire.


Today, it’s different.

The jokes are lazy or nonexistent, in many cases just Alec Baldwin quoting the president but sounding like an idiot – the kind of bullying mimicry used on playgrounds, not the level of humor you’d expect from a show with a national audience.

“You’d think they’ll have to find another approach to Trump eventually,” show alum Norm Macdonald, who portrayed Republican presidential candidate Sen. Bob Dole in the 1990s, told Vulture last year. “I can’t see making jokes with that fever behind them for so long before the whole thing collapses into itself.”

Looks like his prediction is coming true.
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Trump brought it on himself with his attacks on women and name calling.. We have landed in an age of political hysteria.

Criticizing SNL is a cop out.
 
evince said:
self deprecating humor is a lost art


I use it all the time in the real world

its funny to see those who don't get it

they actually get confused


this humor of the fake bluster is sooo common now it throws people for a loop
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Well, everybody hear laughs at you. :D
 
Most people regard the height of SNL to have been 1977 (when Bill Murray came onboard for three seasons) through the 1980s, and there has been constant complaining about its decline ever since. Baldwin's Trump act has actually been one of the high-points of the modern era. You can take that as fodder to further bash the quality of SNL if you like.
 
Presidents have always been targets of SNL. That’s what satire is all about, after all.

But it had always hit both sides. And it was usually funny.

“You never knew which way they leaned politically,” Schneider told The Daily News. “You kind of assumed they would lean more left and liberal, but now the cat’s out of the bag and they are completely against Trump, which I think makes it less interesting because you know the direction the piece is going.”

While the show has always leaned left, other Republican presidents have gotten much better treatment.
 
noise said:
Presidents have always been targets of SNL. That’s what satire is all about, after all.

But it had always hit both sides. And it was usually funny.

“You never knew which way they leaned politically,” Schneider told The Daily News. “You kind of assumed they would lean more left and liberal, but now the cat’s out of the bag and they are completely against Trump, which I think makes it less interesting because you know the direction the piece is going.”

While the show has always leaned left, other Republican presidents have gotten much better treatment.
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They jabbed Hillary quite hard during the campaign. I don't remember a thread crying about it?
 
noise said:
Presidents have always been targets of SNL. That’s what satire is all about, after all.

But it had always hit both sides. And it was usually funny.

“You never knew which way they leaned politically,” Schneider told The Daily News. “You kind of assumed they would lean more left and liberal, but now the cat’s out of the bag and they are completely against Trump, which I think makes it less interesting because you know the direction the piece is going.”

While the show has always leaned left, other Republican presidents have gotten much better treatment.
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No other President has DESERVED the treatment Trump gets the way Trump DESERVES the treatment he gets.

Why can't you understand that??????

Why can't you get that to sink into the mush inside that thick, cement skull of yours?????

For Pete's sake!!!!
 
Nordberg said:
They jabbed Hillary quite hard during the campaign. I don't remember a thread crying about it?
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well that's it exactly. SNL used to have no sacred cows,and they were actually funny.
As good as an actor Bladwin is,he plays Trump solely as a slavish imbecile,and it was funny the first dozen times I saw it . It's lost any spontaneity . When comedy becomes expected it is then just a political hit piece
 
noise said:
well that's it exactly. SNL used to have no sacred cows,and they were actually funny.
As good as an actor Bladwin is,he plays Trump solely as a slavish imbecile,and it was funny the first dozen times I saw it . It's lost any spontaneity . When comedy becomes expected it is then just a political hit piece
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So it is the reality of Baldwin that bothers you? The reason it works is it is based in truth, It would not be funny if Trump wasn't such an immature buffoon. He talks and acts like a teenager.
 
evince said:
the republican party has nothing left to give the American people but lies
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Hahaha! Lowest black and Hispanic unemployment rate IN HISTORY. Best month of growth and revenues IN HISTORY. Business crushing regulations being eliminated at rates unprecedented IN HISTORY. On the verge of reining in NK. Yeah, that's a whole lotta nothing. LOL!
 
noise said:
well that's it exactly. SNL used to have no sacred cows,and they were actually funny.
As good as an actor Bladwin is,he plays Trump solely as a slavish imbecile,and it was funny the first dozen times I saw it . It's lost any spontaneity . When comedy becomes expected it is then just a political hit piece
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What's inaccurate about the portrayal?
 
noise said:
well that's it exactly. SNL used to have no sacred cows,and they were actually funny.
As good as an actor Bladwin is,he plays Trump solely as a slavish imbecile,and it was funny the first dozen times I saw it . It's lost any spontaneity . When comedy becomes expected it is then just a political hit piece
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So just out of curiosity, how else do you think he should he play Trump?

Honestly.
 
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