SNL Takes On Eric Massa (VIDEO)

SNL opened the show last night with a sketch mocking Eric Massa and the ever-growing list of "non-sexual" acts he engaged in with his staff. Cutting away to his memories, we finally got a glimpse at the tickle-fest that was his 50th birthday, as well as insight as to what "snorkeling" actually is. And while it may seem lewd, it's nothing compared to his stint in the navy.


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Comments

[BlueZoo]

03:32 PM on 03/15/2010

Just an aside here re Massa...what grown person actually tickles another adult person? It's sick!

[DonJM]

09:07 AM on 03/15/2010

Why doesn't the guy just admit he's gay; nobody cares.

[NightEditor]

06:39 AM on 03/15/2010

Tickle Torture.

It needed Betty White.

[Skeptiqone]

02:14 AM on 03/15/2010

Massa's real appearances on Glenn Beck and Larry King were much funnier than this skit.

[Heartlight3]

10:49 PM on 03/14/2010

It looks to me as if the guy is mentally unbalanced. Drugs maybe? I noticed he couldn't complete a sentence when he was on Glenn Beck without changing the subject in the middle of the sentence. In my experience that is common with drug abuse. Did you catch Glenn Becks expression when he was trying so hard to get Mr. Massa to say the Democrats threw him out of congress because of some nefarious conspiracy and Massa kept sliding out of answering? I thought Beck was going to have an apoplexy right there on the set! Someone should play his apology for wasting his viewers' time at the end of every one of his shows.

[bokiluis]

08:44 AM on 03/15/2010

You are better than me being able to endure even one episode with Glenda Beck the bad witch.

[iRock]

10:36 PM on 03/14/2010

I haven't watched Saturday White Live in ages. My television seems to like diversity, so it's incapable of playing NBC at 11:35 PM on Saturday evenings.

It just fizzes...

[barakagirl]

12:27 AM on 03/15/2010

C'mon now they have funny sketches and really it shouldn't be about diversity only.... I don't like Seinfield but I love Friends, I'm black doesn't it matter that much?

[clsmithj]

08:35 AM on 03/15/2010

I preferred Living Single over FRIENDS.

[iRock]

03:40 PM on 03/15/2010

I honestly don't find SNL that funny these days. They were funny in the mid-90s. That's when the funny left. Really, the funny left with Farley and Ferrel, but Darryl Hammond was pretty funny. But now their just goofy to me, and that's not comedy.

When you have a bunch of goofy white people on every saturday night, this is in my opinion, i can't help but wonder what would happen if they brought in "other'' talent.

Take In Living Color, for example. A pretty diverse cast and funny sketches. Mad TV too. I'm not just talking about black talent either. I would love to see some Asians or Hispanics of any race. But as a black woman, I get tired of Kenan T. playing black women.

That's bad.

[barakagirl]

12:28 AM on 03/15/2010

meant to say does it matter that much...

[EvitaLuisa]

09:31 PM on 03/14/2010

Just in LOVE with Andy Samberg -- he's out of this world great! The comedy is so spot on --- the questions and criticisms shouldn't be directed at SNL (sure, not all even performances across the board), but rather at the lemmings who elected Massa in the first place -- so scary; how did he get this far????

In Living Color and MadTV were often better than SNL from the get go, but stop hatin' on the current SNL cast!

[DG3]

10:39 PM on 03/14/2010

Of course, those shows weren't live. It's far more difficult to put on a live sketch comedy show without the benefit of selective editing.

[cinemaven]

10:48 AM on 03/15/2010

SNL... live with 1 week to write and memorize.. and the always unpredictable guest host. I'll never forget when Wayne Gretzky hosted.. I love him but he was so nervous and just kind of awful. On In Living Color and MadTV he could have done retakes until he got it right but the joy of SNL are those moments that are off the script and those are the most memorable.

I totally agree with you about Massa and Samberg :)

[jwatso7]

08:00 PM on 03/14/2010

Overall, it was a lame skit. But I did chuckle when they explained snorkeling. THAT was funny . . .thanks to Adam Samberg.

[blueskybigstar]

07:13 PM on 03/14/2010

Leave Massa alone. This could drive some people to take their own lives. His harassment and state of mental health is sad more than anything else.

[ARTIST50]

06:56 PM on 03/14/2010

When was the last year that SNL was funny? I didn't even smile at that.

[leopoldmozart]

01:10 AM on 03/15/2010

Last time SNL was funny? During the Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Chris Farely, Tim Meadows etc. era.

[myj66]

07:05 AM on 03/15/2010

no way.

[setaets]

09:40 AM on 03/17/2010

If it's not funny, you're too old.

[KB2000]

06:48 PM on 03/14/2010

I like comedy when it's the funny kind.

Meh.

[bokiluis]

06:30 PM on 03/14/2010

Okay that was truly funny and pathetic at the same time. To think that this creep goes over to Glenda Beck's show to putdown the Democratic Leadership when he was up to this kind of sickening behavior is infuriating. I didn't buy for a minute his quick turncoat behavior. But whether Miss Limburger or Glenda Beck got the last laugh here is absolutely WRONG. They look equally as foolish.

Bill Press raised this guy to some super congressman level only to have egg on his face.

This guy is truly lacking in any moral character. And I just happen to be a proud member of the LGBT community. Despicable.

[clearpepsi]

05:50 PM on 03/14/2010

ugh... yet another of these snl bits on the front page of HP, there is no way HP isn't getting paid to post these, snl isn't in the top 20 of best comedy on TV right now, doesn't even C.C.'s Adult Swim have like three shows that are better than snl? It’s the community theater (sub professional) of comedy anymore….

Formulaic (next week's episode):
- celeb impressions (as many as we can fit in)
- topical political bit - that daily comedy already did earlier in the week (but we need to get on HP)
- quirky character (an experiment (maybe it will stick?))
- courtroom skit (whacky events in formal setting)
- alien/spaceman/dress up/period skit (wow them with costumes)
- and maybe a gross out skit (you know to show we are "cutting edge")

TA - DA! snl has just been writen for next week

[leopoldmozart]

01:15 AM on 03/15/2010

One sign that the formula you correctly outline above is sooo powerful and uproarious is that, even if a performer has only one line during the entire show, he can dispense with memorizing it and just read it off the teleprompter. That way the audience isn't distracted from the brilliant dialogue by the performers looking at each other, talking TO each other, and reacting to what the other performers say and do.

[clearpepsi]

07:07 PM on 03/15/2010

thank you for comment, yeah.. the quality of the performaces is another can of worms to open - yeah.. there is no effort to face the opposing character when delivering the lines - that's an old stage drama thing I guess - but doesn't fly today. I have noticed that a lot of the "off script" line "mess ups" (crack ups) seem very calculated and phony...

[Infostream]

04:58 PM on 03/14/2010

Just in case anyone is confused, Massa's behavior is not "gay", it's the behavior of a closet case, that's why it is so silly. So making fun of it is making fun of people in trying to pretend something is not true when it's obvious to everyone that it is. There's a bible-thumper closet case at my gym who does ridiculous things like inappropriately spotting young guys, openly gay guys make fun of him because his behavior is ridiculous, no openly gay guy would be so obnoxious.

[charon]

04:40 PM on 03/14/2010

In a way it's funny, but really it's sad. The man obviously has some strong homosexual impulses, whether he knows he is gay or not. So either he is a closet gay, or is repressing awareness of his sexual attraction to men, either possibility which is very sad and testifies to how much further we as a society have to go to accept gayness. Yes, he committed sexual harassment, whether or not he wanted to take the games all the way, and he needed to resign. But his fumbling expression of his real sexual urges should be pitied, not made a mockery of. He needs some serious counseling or psychotherapy to come to terms with those urges and who he really is and being honest about it. His actions were abhorrent but I think he is really a tragic figure.