They clearly have no idea what they are trying to do with Biden (Pray to the gods old and new that they will have a lot of time to figure it out). But as I say, any Cold Open they did that focused on either Biden or Trump would be a fail.
I think Kevin is over stating the role that SNL, or any pop media, had on electing Trump last cycle. Trump won because he is a White Nationalist, and it turns out in 2016 there were, just barely, enough White Nationalists in the country to elect him president. We will see in a little over two weeks if that is still true. Perhaps SNL has not had the backbone for some time to really hold up the mirror to its corporate overlords, but I think at times like this, major failures to do so should still be called out. On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 7:19 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > It wasn't great. I think the problem is Jim Carrey. He seems to need broad > humor and he's not getting it with the Biden imitation. > Weekend Update was good. > On Oct 18, 2020, at 5:17 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> They had one job this weekend, and it wasn’t to make fun of Trump or >> Biden. They’re only job was to skewer NBC News for cashing in on the Trump >> Town Hall. The cold open should not have recreated the dueling Tiwn Halls, >> it should somehow have parodied, brutally, the meeting in which NBC >> executives decided to green light it. >> >> Of course they failed. There was one tepid joke on update, but nothing >> that really held NBC’s feet to the fire. >> >> And no, it doesn’t matter how tough Guthrie was on Trump, or how bad it >> made him look. >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a480c3fd-4978-43b7-af7d-71006a2ff3b8%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a480c3fd-4978-43b7-af7d-71006a2ff3b8%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BWFgdbb0eoZ%3D52ROOxf0xnpkRFBiEbc5boyiVa1xyOwQ%40mail.gmail.com.
