"Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends..." All week long, this line has been running through my head. It's from an Emerson, Lake, and...
Tina Fey, come back. Come back to Saturday Night Live just once more. I know you said you were done. I know you've got your own show, but this is bigger than you.
Don't blow it.
Robert Smigel still enjoys sticking his hand into a dog puppet and insulting famous people, particularly now that famous people are on Twitter. Such as Oprah. Yes. He pooped on Oprah.
Let the Academy be officially forewarned: if Maya Rudolph doesn't get an Oscar nomination, then I'm not watching the show.
The Palin children have been fodder for comedians since they were brought to the national stage -- I exhausted the top 10 list before I ran out of outrageous instances previously ignored by the Palins.
Sarah Palin is outraged about nothing, but is so intent not to be forgotten that she stoops to the lowest levels. It's time for the Media to act responsibly and help her fade away.
Clearly the WTF moment of the MTV Movie Awards was Sacha Baron Cohen teabagging Slim Shady on national television.
Since I met Timberlake in 1998, I've had the pleasure of working with him a fair amount. To this day, he strikes me as a guy with remarkably good instincts.
Were there any celebrity cameos? YES. TONS. Tom Hanks played himself in the Jeopardy sketch, pretending to be dumber than you could possibly believe anyone to be, and playing it straight.
what about the Wanda Sykes roast? Was she out of bounds? Can a joke about 9/11 be funny, even if it's tasteless?
It's late. You have questions about last weekend's Saturday Night Live. We have answers.
"And now for something completely different . . . Mother's Day cards for everyone in your life, everyone who has never been in your life, and especial...
The best comedy will shine a light on politics while holding up a magnifying glass until politics tries to run away or catches on fire. Metaphorically speaking.
What about the black political variety on U.S. television? To whom have Richard Pryor and Dick Gregory passed the baton of African American comedic observation?
Can blogs, Jon Stewart, news consolidators, Saturday Night Live, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter replace "real" journalism? Not if our lives depend on it.
Nothing sets domestic reactionaries off like a "media elite liberal" like Stewart besmirching our nation's fine name and God-fearing reputation.
It is amazing to see how Middle East conflict obeys the rules of comedy: It's a story of a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim that are fighting in a very clumsy way (classic slapstick) and roasting one another (sometimes literally).
In spite of the cheesy arrival of the Obama pooch, I have a feeling this photo might be one of the most significant taken in the White House given its "unbounded" quality.
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Victoria's statements are very reminiscent of the ideas I grew up around.
In Louisiana, politics, religion and hunting lose separate identity and merge into a grand life-statement that is the Southern Man. Southern Man is not curious about other cultures, religions, or forms of government. The mindset is one of fear; Fear of strangers and strangeness. Fear of all outlying possibilities and potentials.
I felt pressure to conform to a space without freedom, creativity or honest expression. It is this compressed and limiting structure that the southerner calls home, and defends at any expense.
He defends it because he believes his God, his family, and his way of life are all inside this stricture, and any force seeking to change it; expand it, or add a window, is a force of evil " threatening the perfect proportions of God"s Kingdom.
This is the stronghold of Rush Limbaugh, and the other sowers of fear and distortion, for the soil is fertile.
This mammoth dysfunction stretches back to the Civil War - collective guilt over slavery, etc. But that's a book I don"t intend to write.
My point to the reader is this:
To bring these wounded, frightened souls to the light, we are going to have to launch an invasion of friendship.
When southerners hold "tea parties", book burnings, or otherwise impede the progress of enlightenment, don"t chastise or belittle them. Just befriend them; one-by-one. Listen to them. Love them.
Once the fear subsides, they'll respond to reason.
She shows courage.
Is that the new word for bigotry?
I have, after reading this article, lost all respect for Ms. Jackson.
Back when she used to do the dumb blonde routine on SNL, she was so good at it that I was sure it was an act. She got all aspects of the stereotype so on target that I figured she was actually fairly bright with the gift of a Betty Boop voice and made the most of it.
I was wrong. She truly is the cartoon she played. And there's something actually cruel about the way they bring her on and interview her for her "opinion". A no brainer (in more ways than one.)
World renowned airhead criticizes Obama.
Ouch.
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