SNL’s Perfect Comic Coda

“A dad’s (Beck Bennett) Christmas surprise to his family (Timothée Chalamet, Heidi Gardner) isn’t received as he expected.”

Both Clip and set-up quip courtesy of the Saturday Night Live YouTube Channel
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Within a past post, I griped about the crassness of foaming at the mouth, dollar signs flashing in the eyeballs, mad, Madison Avenue admen.

To say the least:

For them to be marketing / huckstering high-end, bloated price-tagged vehicles during an economic downturn is the acme of insensitivity.

To say more:

“This IS 2020 after all! That godforsaken pandemic has been, literally, snuffing out lives and livelihoods. Average Janes and Joes are not making their rent / mortgage payments to keep roofs over their kitchen tables; are having a tough time paying their utility bills to “fire up” the requisite cook tops / ovens to prepare meals for said tables; are purchasing cheapo grub to toss into their cookware that’s being heated up by said contrivances.” [Read Full Post Here]

From my blog: “Do Re Me Fa So La Ti Do?” • Nov 25, 2020 (9:33 am) • Likes 7

To say the most:

Watch the clip, above, or over @YouTube! SNL’s creative geniuses say it all!

Mega Thanks to SNL! Somebody, who can reach a vastly larger audience than I can, needed to unmask the tone deafness of that mad, Madison Avenue admen mentality.

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Stay Publicly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Time To Play Family Feud! (Vid of the Day)

For starters, in the event that, someday, some Trumpian Executive Order purges YouTube of all content, which mocks him, let’s excerpt just one of our featured, vintage clip’s comedic gems… where Larry David, in the role of Senator Bernie Sanders, forewarns…

“Look, Senator Clinton is the prune juice of this election. She might not seem that appetizing but if you don’t take her now, you’re gonna be clogged with crap for a very long time.”

 

Saturday Night Live Cast:

Kenan Thompson ~ Steve Harvey
Kate McKinnon ~ Kellyanne Conway
Margot Robbie ~ Ivanka Trump
Bobby Moynihan ~ Gov. Chris Christie
Beck Bennett ~ Vladimir Putin
Larry David ~ Sen. Bernie Sanders
Cecily Strong ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
Melissa Villaseñor ~ Sarah Silverman
Darrell Hammond ~ XXX POTUS Bill Clinton

That said, if you haven’t already done so, let’s click playback to play Family Feud… and laugh our butts off. But, do stick around for the reality check that follows… especially if you’re an American voter, who assumes Joe Biden is a shoo-in.

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When the above, Saturday Night Live sketch was first posted, way back on October 2, 2016, it was so easy to LOL at the very notion of Donald J. Trump ever defeating Hillary Clinton.

Little doubt, Clinton, who was thought to be on the fast track to the Oval Office, was laughing, too. But, in the end, Trump got the last laugh. Such a monumentally unfunny outcome doth remind us of Aesop’s fable, The Tortoise and the Hare… i.e., his moral which addresses the issue of overconfidence, thusly…

“Don’t brag about your lightning pace, for
Slow and Steady won the race!” [read more]

Of course, a more apt description of Trump would be Slow and UN-Steady / UN-Stable.

Anyway, we can only hope that Biden’s poll numbers, which predict he’ll trounce Trump, have not resulted in anyone’s overconfidence, especially the voters’.

Granted, the polls are probably correct, but, taking Donny for granted is always dangerous. How dangerous is it?

Just ask shrink and author Mary Trump. Her recently published tell-all, right in the title, itself, characterizes her unfunny Uncle Donny as the “World’s Most Dangerous Man”. The purpose of her exposé is edification on a level that’s veritably Aesopian. More to the point, it’s fair to assume Dr. Trump isn’t laughing.

 

Stay Safe! Stay Publicly Masked! Stay Healthy!

 

 

 

 

What Happened: The Damaged “Clinton Brand”?

I’ve just begun reading What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC)… Herstory relating her successful failure, ’16 presidential campaign (i.e., her popular vote victory / Electoral College defeat). Although I’m only on page 124, I don’t deem it premature to pay her (perhaps) the highest compliment any author can ever receive… she’s written a page turner.

I don’t believe it too soon, either, to offer my own theory re what happened…

Ms. Rodham’s defeat, in part, had been due to that godforsaken Clinton moniker. The infidelity of her hubby… William Jefferson Clinton (WJC)… had utterly, irreparably damaged (to put this in political parlance) “The Clinton Brand”… BOTH his and hers. In a fair and just world, no woman should ever be judged based upon a spouse’s deplorable acts. But… regrettably… use of words like “fair” and “just” rarely apply, here.

SIDEBAR: Maybe if the #MeToo Movement existed back in that Nineties era, the outrage and outcry of courageous women could’ve succeeded where the more official, congressional impeachment efforts had failed… i.e., might #MeToo have booted Billy Boy out of office?

Now… to be fair… it is plausible that in all of these intervening years, WJC may’ve mended his cheating ways and learned to show his wife the respect she deserves… BUT… since their Republican foes were (still are) “elephants” who never forget, that means, on Election Day ’16, that damaged “Clinton Brand” had dragged her down.

Which leaves us with the $64 Million question…

Why were/are Donald Trump’s supporters so forgiving of his vulgarly stated admissions of sexually abusing / assaulting women… as revealed on that infamous Access Hollywood Clip… YET, so merciless in condemning HRC because of her cheating husband? Beats me! You’d have to ask them to explain themselves… their flagrant hypocrisy.

So… that’s what was. As for what could’ve been…

A woman not need be dependent on any man to define who she is. Oh sure… WJC’s presence and presidency did fast track her arrival upon the national / international stage… BUT… there’s no denying that a woman of her superb intellect, unparalleled qualifications, strength of character and levelheaded demeanor could’ve become a Senator, Secretary of State, POTUS… maybe much more… all on her own… and in all likelihood… decades earlier.

 

 

 

The Not Ready For Primetime (or any other time) Régime

The good news… TV ratings for NBC’s Saturday Night Live are up… way up. Nielson reports 10.6 million have been tuning in regularly… that figure representing an increase in viewership of 2 million.

The bad(?) news… SNL primarily owes its success to Alec Baldwin lampooning a downright failure of a man.

The worst(?) part… the butt of their jokes is paying far more attention to what’s happening within SNL’s studio 8H in Manhattan than… well… pretty much whatever else is going on in the rest of the world.

Is that totally bad?

No. Each and every time #45 is overreacting / going berserk on Twitter he’s also frittering away his four year term… meaning less time for him to FUBAR our global economy, ecology and society.

Of course, what those key problem areas do need the most is the positive, proactive attention and actions of a real leader… an empathetic, ethical, focused, genuine intellect… such as former President Barack Obama.

Of course, #45 is not such a man. NOPE, he could never live up to those presidential qualifications. Ergo, it’s just as well that he’s got his eyes glued to his TV every Saturday at 11:30 p.m.… is obsessing over and bouncing off the walls whenever SNL’s brilliant political satirists effortlessly get under his thin skin.

Yet, one cannot help but wonder…

If SNL elected to never lampoon #45 / his régime again, would that upset him even more?

LOL!

Burt Bacharach and Hal David, songsmiths known for What the World Needs Now Is Love, co-wrote that #7 Hot 100 Hit in 1965… their endeavor greatly assisted by recording artist Jackie DeShannon. These three mega-talents got nearly everything right. True, there’s no denying that love remains essential. I only say, “nearly” because these days… what our world needs now… and has just too little of… is…

Laughter!

With today being World Laughter Day 2016… let’s all get into the spirit.

To lighten up everyone’s mood and get our toes tapping… performing the “HAHAHA Song”… I now introduce the personification of JOY…

Girls’ Generation

Enjoy World Laughter Day 2016… and try to make this day an everyday occurrence. No further set up is needed. Just click onto the play buttons… and LOL!

NBC’s Get Smart

 

The BBC’s Monty Python’s Flying Circus

NBC’s 3rd Rock From The Sun

NBC’s Saturday Night Live