As soon as I heard Tom Hanks stereotyping all MAGA people as racists, I realized he is truly an ignorant man. This is not the first A-list actor to do stupid. Robert De Niro is an example and when Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Kamala Harris, he too looked ignorant.
They're all completely divorced from reality and drink their own urine because it's pure. Film actors are mostly ignorant and dissembling creatures who desperately want to be revered for their seeming awesomeness.
CG, you remind me of a tour I once took of the new Shakespeare theatre in London, the GLOBE THEATRE, rebuilt. The tour guide/history guide told us that actors of Shakespeares' day were considered persons of low character, ill repute.
As you say, they still are, but guessing that the advent of MOVIES and movies 'stars' in the 20th Century converted actors into something people admired or longed for...to this day for too many people.
I looked up Tom’s last movie “Here.” I could only find 3 black cast members and on who could be Hispanic. Was hard to tell if any crew were minorities as not a lot of their pictures were shown.It seems that he wasn’t acting a part in SNL , but living it out in his movies.
There are many ignorant things about that skit, but the worst one is the complete lack of self-awareness of how people who were publicly MAGA were treated with outright violence at worst and sneering condescension at best. The second worst is the fact that Trump won record shares of votes from minorities as compared to any other Republican candidate. Looks like more blacks, Hispanics, and Asians are becoming racist! /s
Saturday Night Live has always been hit and miss, mostly miss - haha! Tom Hanks has squandered public admiration across the political spectrum and his legacy is fading before his eyes. Good riddance, Mr. Gump.
Add Oprah to that list. Tired of her identity politics. It’s been about 10 years since she said anything good about tens of millions of Americans who once adored her and made her a billionaire. Did Kamala’s campaign really pay her (or her production company) millions for her endorsement?
I guess it really left SNL butthurt that Harris lost so badly after appearing on SNL. The "everyone who voted for Trump is racist" narrative have been blown to bits by the demo breakdown of the voters and yet the most elitist Democratic supporters keep their heads in a sand.
I gave up on SNL years ago. I LOVED political humor until it became a one sided diatribe to make the right look ignorant, petty, and small while at the same time making the left appear truthful, compassionate, and magnanimous. I loved making fun of “my“side until the jokes became attacks and I had to go on defense.
Another media satire publication lost me too: MAD magazine. I subscribed to the publication for nearly 20 years FFS, until it too decided that only the left had the political high ground and “my” side had only 3 teeth, two brown abs one green.
In 2016 I was not a Trump fan. I actually voted differently in the primary than I did in the election. And then only because I would have been damned if that murderous witch was ever going to occupy the White House. Nope not in my watch. But in 2024, even though I’m still angry that Trump still won’t admit the jab was not the best thing since sliced bread, I went full MAGA just as you described. There is no way, not ever, that I will vote in such a way as to allow another Democrat to win the presidency. Not after Joe Biden, nope, NOT EVER.
Very well said, thank you. You speak for many, from the 2016 primary to still wanting Trump to admit that he was grossly lied to by the “scientists” and most of us paid a price, either because we took it or refused it. Trump wanted so badly to save people with a vaccine. He trusted that ranking government doctors and major drug companies would not lie to us. Now we all know better, and he should not only admit it, but should investigate and ensure all the bad actors are out of our government.
But it was the Democrats who abused us all with their use of a harmful vaccine to poison us, censor us and take away our freedoms, while they bankrupted our country and left our children in the worst educational and health condition in many decades.
The current power structure and agenda of the Democrat party can never be back in power again, never. There are still many decent Democrats who just can’t or won’t believe they belong to such a morally bankrupt party. Let’s hope they do see it and rise up to change things. Perhaps someday the Democrat Party will be led by trustworthy, intelligent people. That will be a huge lift from today, and would be a major change for the good of our country.
The dam will finally break when enough people stop watching the Communist News Network and MSDNC. When these propaganda machines no longer have enough support to remain solvent, their devotees will have to turn to other sources and might possibly hear the truth. Until then any expectation of them changing their views would be similar to a baby refusing candy.
You mean the only major news channel that showed Joe Biden's manifest mental decline four years before the rest of the media was finally forced to acknowledge it?
The one that reported on Hunter's laptop when the liberal media was busy burying or downplaying it?
Do, please, remember that Trump always spoke against vax mandates. He should have been able to trust Fauci and the sneaky Birx who changed data & lied to Trump.
Yes the vaccine was bad, the mandates were bad, all of that. The wheels of justice are turning on those. People need to now turn their attention to Peter Thiel et al, and the Dark Enlightenment philosophies powering an extremely large portion of Trump and team's activities, especially the executive-office-by-chainsaw approach being taken by Musk Inc.
If deep-diving about the vaccines was all-engrossing, that's great, the effort is noted, and now everyone knows what will be required to understand Thiel and Co., with the precondition that a good portion of that effort must be deployed to first understand the philosophy *without evangelicalism* which was formative for the USA's initial government structure. Some people will find themselves challenged by the necessity of putting evangelical desires and mindset to the side before thinking about the USA's politics. It will still be necessary.
Nothing further will be gained by continuing to internalize anguish and outrage over the vaccines. Believe me when I say that what Thiel et al intend for your bodies and your minds makes a mandate that everyone stay home if they aren't going to vax up *wither in comparison as though the uniparty's first effort was grass grown under a truckload of lumber in the sideyard*. Thiel et al do not want to replace the uniparty in order to benefit *you*. They are interested in replacing it because it is vulnerable and because it offers no philosophical resistance that could defend the American principles from their attack. They have no interest in those and you are meat for the machine. Enough therefore with the angst about the vaccines. The future is ahead of us even for those who insist on looking backward.
Trump is governing like a man who's opposition went through his wife's underwear drawer. He's doesn't need their validation, he doesn't need their money, and he's not running for re-election. He's cementing his legacy.
100 up votes, the second sentence describes the situation perfectly.
Not to be an annoyance, but though I think the Democrats are tremendously lost (I'm not voting for them) has the thought crossed your mind that Trump is an idiot too? I am in favor of many of his objectives but he isn't competent to be president.
The fact that the Democrats are egregiously bad doesn't mean our candidate/president is good. There are few good politicians. People feel they must support one team or the other but in fact the entire situation is fouled up now.
You have not explained President Trump's "incompetency." That is your opinion, definitely not mine. All presidents have strengths as well as flaws. That is why there are advisors and carefully picked cabinet members. President Trump is an "I can fix that" president. And, when you look at his career as a billionaire entrepreneur and his many successful projects, he is just what America needs right now.
I think he is uniquely qualified in the singular way that hard nosed developers are effective at controlling large projects. Trump for all of the bluster about his ego, has surrounded himself for at least the better part of the last six months with extremely high performing lawyers, business people, and advisors that have taken immediate action to destroy large parts of the feckless federal apparatus. I understand not liking it and finding the enterprise gross where people's jobs are concerned. But I have no interest at all in doing anything but pouring salt over the remains of useless government work. I want the bureaucracy of terribleness undone and gone for eternity.
Yes. Janet Yellen helped to increase inflation and destroyed the bond market. Lloyd Austin and Ukraine $$$. Mayorkas and the border! Merrick Garland-Lawfare and the Mar a Lago raid. Yes, I remember it well.
It’s an impressive and unbelievable start. It’s becoming very clear to everyone that they underestimated Trump and his very focused team. I think he could have done much better than Rubio. The Russians have serious diplomats who don’t entertain illusions or suffer fools gladly. He could still be replaced, I guess. We’ll see what happens.
At first I felt the same, but I have been impressed with his intelligence and diplomacy in his first few weeks. He does well in interviews with pundits like Margaret Brennan with the legacy media.
Years ago, Trump lost a business and went into a 900-million-dollar debt. He turned it around and made 5 billion dollars. That sounds like success. For more info, watch Netflix's documentary and wake up.
Would that you and I were half as smart as Trump, brother. He's playing 5-D chess on steroids while the bumbling fools of the "Democrat" party can't find their ass with both hands. And, yes, voting means one has to choose a "team". The Democrats are the political equivalent of Canada's hockey team which just had their ass handed to them by ice skating patriots. Go ahead, pusillanimous frozen foul, boo our National Anthem! Guess they FAFO'd huh?
Trump clearly isn’t incompetent. Most of what he does works. He went after John McCain. A huge mistake. And then went way up in the polls with vets!! As one example. He ended the Korean War. He made further headway in the ME with his Abraham Accords than any politician has done ever. He brought back manufacturing to the US and negotiated better trade deals than anyone else has. What he is is unorthodox. He bombasts and gets everyone all Focused on some small point. And then surgically cuts away what he wanted all along.
He did all this and much more in 2017-2020 with backstabbers all Around him. And while under a complete attack from both parties.
He is not incompetent. But he works in weird and wonderful ways. And he learns well.
He won two elections with both parties aligned against him. He assembled a cadre of DEMOCRATS to defeat the Democrats. That was a brilliant move. He won over more Latinos and blacks than any R in modern times. He somehow has gotten Dems to defend waste! Publicly! And to defend Transgender policies which allows him to endlessly show pics of Rachel (formerly Dick…now dickless) Levine, Sam the suitcase thief Brinton, and the lovely topless trannies on the WH lawn parading their giant fake boobies.
How does an idiot get elected president twice, after everything that was stacked against him? I should be such an idiot. He has personality flaws but being an idiot isn't one of them.
While flipping around to find it I found an early SNL skit, Steve Martin and Akroid doing the Wild and Crazy Guys. One said to Garrett Moris, “Slap my hand, black soul man.” And that was funny. Tom Hanks was not funny, just sad. He failed.
Early SNL were nobodies who ridiculed the powerful with no mercy. Now they deserve to be ridiculed and mocked every which way. They take themselves way too seriously. This is a time for new creation, a new crop of nobodies to lampoon the hubris of the elites. Let’s GO!
Thanks, once again, for a super smart commentary!!
We watched both nights: Sat & Sun - out of curiosity as SNL has so faded into blah over the years.
Saturday being mainly music was pretty OK
Sunday was shockingly terrible and unbelievably boring!!! Steve Martins monologue was good. And there were a few moments here and there - but the new skits were incredibly dull & boring. I kept wondering WHY WHY WHY didn’t they just put together a compendium of all the good stuff - the great old skits?? The fact that they actually created new dull boring pieces and thought them good enough for the 50th Anniversary Special shows how totally out of touch they are!!
Yeah I was surprised that they showed new skits rather than highlight all the best an classic ones from the past 50 years. Definitely was disappointing.
Every single sketch was a callback to earlier sketches, weighted heavily towards the past 10 years. None of them were new. My 17 year old son is obsessed with SNL, so we’ve watched them all. They do an anniversary show every 10 years.
Thanks for another great article. I didn't watch it. Matter of fact, I regularly watched the first couple of seasons, it was flat out hilarious!! Don't think I've seen more than a few minutes since then. It sucks. Largely!
I didn’t watch the SNL50. Haven’t watched SNL since late 1990’s, and even then it wasn’t funny any longer.
However, if you have Netflix I do recommend watching ‘Saturday Night’ which recounts the 2-3 hours leading up to the very first recording of SNL in 1975. It’s a comedy and very well done, IMO.
No. I did not watch SNL50. They stopped being funny a long time ago. Tom Hanks has turned into a pompous, bitter old hag. That’s too bad. I tell you who I do enjoy watching these day - Rob Schneider! He’s hilarious and a very likable human being. Oh…I did watch Paul McCartney’s performance and loved it. He’s 82.
I’ve been thinking the same thing (a star or a letter) since the commercial with the women secretly voting for Kamala in “defiance” of their MAGA-cartoon husbands, because I knew that it would become everybody’s business who people voted for if Trump won. I somehow just knew it.
That spot accurately portrays the belief of the women at the core of the Democrat Left. They are convinced their Conservative-minded sisters have no agency whatsoever and act entirely at the direction of their husbands, fathers and other male authorities.
The irony is that this is the rights culture Hamas and its ilk seek to protect and expand. I just can't decode the goals of Left activity anymore.
I did start to watch it. Even though I haven’t felt SNL to be funny at all for at least 10+ years, I figured the 50th anniversary show with all the old cast members and guests would be good for a few laughs. Boy was I wrong. It was unbearable, and I had to turn it off halfway through. They can’t seem to rid themselves of the woke political stuff, as if they think everyone still has those sentiments. Obviously they’re not reading the room, because the majority of us have moved on.
The funny thing is, I almost watched it for the same reasons you mentioned. The nostalgia and the old-timers. I got into something else and figured I could watch it later on demand. Hearing how it turned out, I'm relieved.
Yes, they are the least self-aware people on the planet.
I'm old enough to remember back when SNL used to be funny!
As soon as I saw Hanks in the MAGA hat I went to bed.
As soon as I heard Tom Hanks stereotyping all MAGA people as racists, I realized he is truly an ignorant man. This is not the first A-list actor to do stupid. Robert De Niro is an example and when Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Kamala Harris, he too looked ignorant.
They're all completely divorced from reality and drink their own urine because it's pure. Film actors are mostly ignorant and dissembling creatures who desperately want to be revered for their seeming awesomeness.
Didn't I read somewhere that Tom Hanks once drank the urine of Obama? He thought it would taste like Mountain Dew?
CG, you remind me of a tour I once took of the new Shakespeare theatre in London, the GLOBE THEATRE, rebuilt. The tour guide/history guide told us that actors of Shakespeares' day were considered persons of low character, ill repute.
As you say, they still are, but guessing that the advent of MOVIES and movies 'stars' in the 20th Century converted actors into something people admired or longed for...to this day for too many people.
I looked up Tom’s last movie “Here.” I could only find 3 black cast members and on who could be Hispanic. Was hard to tell if any crew were minorities as not a lot of their pictures were shown.It seems that he wasn’t acting a part in SNL , but living it out in his movies.
There are many ignorant things about that skit, but the worst one is the complete lack of self-awareness of how people who were publicly MAGA were treated with outright violence at worst and sneering condescension at best. The second worst is the fact that Trump won record shares of votes from minorities as compared to any other Republican candidate. Looks like more blacks, Hispanics, and Asians are becoming racist! /s
Same
Ditto.
That’s ancient. Me too.
It hasn’t been funny since Eddie Murphy left the cast.
Saturday Night Live has always been hit and miss, mostly miss - haha! Tom Hanks has squandered public admiration across the political spectrum and his legacy is fading before his eyes. Good riddance, Mr. Gump.
Yes. Hanks seems to be serving up a string of the same crap chocolates from that box.
Mr Hanks; Everyman morphed into Everylemming.
Well said
He's like Butch Springstein. He just won't go away. Like herpes.
Like Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler who long ago pissed away their public adoration and are now just ugly shells of themselves; barely recognizable
Add Oprah to that list. Tired of her identity politics. It’s been about 10 years since she said anything good about tens of millions of Americans who once adored her and made her a billionaire. Did Kamala’s campaign really pay her (or her production company) millions for her endorsement?
I guess it really left SNL butthurt that Harris lost so badly after appearing on SNL. The "everyone who voted for Trump is racist" narrative have been blown to bits by the demo breakdown of the voters and yet the most elitist Democratic supporters keep their heads in a sand.
Vader, their heads aren’t in the sand, but up their rear ends.
Denial is not only a river in Egypt...
My sentiments, exactly.
I gave up on SNL years ago. I LOVED political humor until it became a one sided diatribe to make the right look ignorant, petty, and small while at the same time making the left appear truthful, compassionate, and magnanimous. I loved making fun of “my“side until the jokes became attacks and I had to go on defense.
Another media satire publication lost me too: MAD magazine. I subscribed to the publication for nearly 20 years FFS, until it too decided that only the left had the political high ground and “my” side had only 3 teeth, two brown abs one green.
In 2016 I was not a Trump fan. I actually voted differently in the primary than I did in the election. And then only because I would have been damned if that murderous witch was ever going to occupy the White House. Nope not in my watch. But in 2024, even though I’m still angry that Trump still won’t admit the jab was not the best thing since sliced bread, I went full MAGA just as you described. There is no way, not ever, that I will vote in such a way as to allow another Democrat to win the presidency. Not after Joe Biden, nope, NOT EVER.
Very well said, thank you. You speak for many, from the 2016 primary to still wanting Trump to admit that he was grossly lied to by the “scientists” and most of us paid a price, either because we took it or refused it. Trump wanted so badly to save people with a vaccine. He trusted that ranking government doctors and major drug companies would not lie to us. Now we all know better, and he should not only admit it, but should investigate and ensure all the bad actors are out of our government.
But it was the Democrats who abused us all with their use of a harmful vaccine to poison us, censor us and take away our freedoms, while they bankrupted our country and left our children in the worst educational and health condition in many decades.
The current power structure and agenda of the Democrat party can never be back in power again, never. There are still many decent Democrats who just can’t or won’t believe they belong to such a morally bankrupt party. Let’s hope they do see it and rise up to change things. Perhaps someday the Democrat Party will be led by trustworthy, intelligent people. That will be a huge lift from today, and would be a major change for the good of our country.
The dam will finally break when enough people stop watching the Communist News Network and MSDNC. When these propaganda machines no longer have enough support to remain solvent, their devotees will have to turn to other sources and might possibly hear the truth. Until then any expectation of them changing their views would be similar to a baby refusing candy.
This is a hope / RFK2 closes off pharma ads. The added bonus will be the death of 24° news.
An when MAGA’s stop believing FOX
You mean the only major news channel that showed Joe Biden's manifest mental decline four years before the rest of the media was finally forced to acknowledge it?
The one that reported on Hunter's laptop when the liberal media was busy burying or downplaying it?
That FOX?
While Trump may never speak the actual words, I perceive the following EOs as his "admission" that he was wrong about the clot shot:
1. Keeping Education Accessible and Ending Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools
2. Reinstating Service Members Discharged Under the Military’s COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate
Do, please, remember that Trump always spoke against vax mandates. He should have been able to trust Fauci and the sneaky Birx who changed data & lied to Trump.
Yes the vaccine was bad, the mandates were bad, all of that. The wheels of justice are turning on those. People need to now turn their attention to Peter Thiel et al, and the Dark Enlightenment philosophies powering an extremely large portion of Trump and team's activities, especially the executive-office-by-chainsaw approach being taken by Musk Inc.
If deep-diving about the vaccines was all-engrossing, that's great, the effort is noted, and now everyone knows what will be required to understand Thiel and Co., with the precondition that a good portion of that effort must be deployed to first understand the philosophy *without evangelicalism* which was formative for the USA's initial government structure. Some people will find themselves challenged by the necessity of putting evangelical desires and mindset to the side before thinking about the USA's politics. It will still be necessary.
Nothing further will be gained by continuing to internalize anguish and outrage over the vaccines. Believe me when I say that what Thiel et al intend for your bodies and your minds makes a mandate that everyone stay home if they aren't going to vax up *wither in comparison as though the uniparty's first effort was grass grown under a truckload of lumber in the sideyard*. Thiel et al do not want to replace the uniparty in order to benefit *you*. They are interested in replacing it because it is vulnerable and because it offers no philosophical resistance that could defend the American principles from their attack. They have no interest in those and you are meat for the machine. Enough therefore with the angst about the vaccines. The future is ahead of us even for those who insist on looking backward.
Trump’s actions are very anti vax. He knows now. He was played. And he is furious. You don’t bring in RFKjr if you still think the vax is good.
Trump is governing like a man who's opposition went through his wife's underwear drawer. He's doesn't need their validation, he doesn't need their money, and he's not running for re-election. He's cementing his legacy.
100 up votes, the second sentence describes the situation perfectly.
Not to be an annoyance, but though I think the Democrats are tremendously lost (I'm not voting for them) has the thought crossed your mind that Trump is an idiot too? I am in favor of many of his objectives but he isn't competent to be president.
The fact that the Democrats are egregiously bad doesn't mean our candidate/president is good. There are few good politicians. People feel they must support one team or the other but in fact the entire situation is fouled up now.
You have not explained President Trump's "incompetency." That is your opinion, definitely not mine. All presidents have strengths as well as flaws. That is why there are advisors and carefully picked cabinet members. President Trump is an "I can fix that" president. And, when you look at his career as a billionaire entrepreneur and his many successful projects, he is just what America needs right now.
I think he is uniquely qualified in the singular way that hard nosed developers are effective at controlling large projects. Trump for all of the bluster about his ego, has surrounded himself for at least the better part of the last six months with extremely high performing lawyers, business people, and advisors that have taken immediate action to destroy large parts of the feckless federal apparatus. I understand not liking it and finding the enterprise gross where people's jobs are concerned. But I have no interest at all in doing anything but pouring salt over the remains of useless government work. I want the bureaucracy of terribleness undone and gone for eternity.
Trump picked the dumbest, most corrupt and most venal fools alive
I thought that was Biden's cabinet
Yes. Janet Yellen helped to increase inflation and destroyed the bond market. Lloyd Austin and Ukraine $$$. Mayorkas and the border! Merrick Garland-Lawfare and the Mar a Lago raid. Yes, I remember it well.
Your box is crooked
Trump has chosen the best, the brightest, who will do the people's will and make America great! Don't get me started.
It’s an impressive and unbelievable start. It’s becoming very clear to everyone that they underestimated Trump and his very focused team. I think he could have done much better than Rubio. The Russians have serious diplomats who don’t entertain illusions or suffer fools gladly. He could still be replaced, I guess. We’ll see what happens.
At first I felt the same, but I have been impressed with his intelligence and diplomacy in his first few weeks. He does well in interviews with pundits like Margaret Brennan with the legacy media.
OMG! Brilliant! I want to blow a $400 million inheritance, run a bunch of failed businesses and grift to high heaven!
When you get elected president twice, get back to us, sad little TDS troll.
Pandora’s Box was filled with evil.
Still is
You must think we are idiots on this blog, or you are a bot.
Years ago, Trump lost a business and went into a 900-million-dollar debt. He turned it around and made 5 billion dollars. That sounds like success. For more info, watch Netflix's documentary and wake up.
Would that you and I were half as smart as Trump, brother. He's playing 5-D chess on steroids while the bumbling fools of the "Democrat" party can't find their ass with both hands. And, yes, voting means one has to choose a "team". The Democrats are the political equivalent of Canada's hockey team which just had their ass handed to them by ice skating patriots. Go ahead, pusillanimous frozen foul, boo our National Anthem! Guess they FAFO'd huh?
How'd that play out? 🤣🤣
We will see on Thursday, won’t we.
Not really but dream on
Trump clearly isn’t incompetent. Most of what he does works. He went after John McCain. A huge mistake. And then went way up in the polls with vets!! As one example. He ended the Korean War. He made further headway in the ME with his Abraham Accords than any politician has done ever. He brought back manufacturing to the US and negotiated better trade deals than anyone else has. What he is is unorthodox. He bombasts and gets everyone all Focused on some small point. And then surgically cuts away what he wanted all along.
He did all this and much more in 2017-2020 with backstabbers all Around him. And while under a complete attack from both parties.
He is not incompetent. But he works in weird and wonderful ways. And he learns well.
He won two elections with both parties aligned against him. He assembled a cadre of DEMOCRATS to defeat the Democrats. That was a brilliant move. He won over more Latinos and blacks than any R in modern times. He somehow has gotten Dems to defend waste! Publicly! And to defend Transgender policies which allows him to endlessly show pics of Rachel (formerly Dick…now dickless) Levine, Sam the suitcase thief Brinton, and the lovely topless trannies on the WH lawn parading their giant fake boobies.
Incompetency is not him.
How does an idiot get elected president twice, after everything that was stacked against him? I should be such an idiot. He has personality flaws but being an idiot isn't one of them.
Trump not competent? Really? Have you been napping the past three weeks?
Yawn
While flipping around to find it I found an early SNL skit, Steve Martin and Akroid doing the Wild and Crazy Guys. One said to Garrett Moris, “Slap my hand, black soul man.” And that was funny. Tom Hanks was not funny, just sad. He failed.
Early SNL were nobodies who ridiculed the powerful with no mercy. Now they deserve to be ridiculed and mocked every which way. They take themselves way too seriously. This is a time for new creation, a new crop of nobodies to lampoon the hubris of the elites. Let’s GO!
Kamala Harris is great skit potential.
The Harris campaign was a real life comedy skit. Nothing could surpass it.
Three mile island skit 🤣🤣
that one is epic.
The only reason I watched was to see the "Oldies." I thought Steve Martin was still kind of funny.
Go low mah bro!!
Thanks, once again, for a super smart commentary!!
We watched both nights: Sat & Sun - out of curiosity as SNL has so faded into blah over the years.
Saturday being mainly music was pretty OK
Sunday was shockingly terrible and unbelievably boring!!! Steve Martins monologue was good. And there were a few moments here and there - but the new skits were incredibly dull & boring. I kept wondering WHY WHY WHY didn’t they just put together a compendium of all the good stuff - the great old skits?? The fact that they actually created new dull boring pieces and thought them good enough for the 50th Anniversary Special shows how totally out of touch they are!!
They couldn’t show the old skits because that would only highlight how far downhill they’ve gone.
I thought it was because the 'oldies' would be cancel-worthy today.
That too!
Yeah I was surprised that they showed new skits rather than highlight all the best an classic ones from the past 50 years. Definitely was disappointing.
Every single sketch was a callback to earlier sketches, weighted heavily towards the past 10 years. None of them were new. My 17 year old son is obsessed with SNL, so we’ve watched them all. They do an anniversary show every 10 years.
I’ve been over SNL for years now so I didn’t watch it.
And, just like you, the more they mock us and paint us as racists, the more I wear my MAGA and MAHA hats proudly—even in Chicago.
Sure, they’ll give me the stink eye, but very few have the guts to actually say something to my face.
Thanks for another great article. I didn't watch it. Matter of fact, I regularly watched the first couple of seasons, it was flat out hilarious!! Don't think I've seen more than a few minutes since then. It sucks. Largely!
J
I didn’t watch the SNL50. Haven’t watched SNL since late 1990’s, and even then it wasn’t funny any longer.
However, if you have Netflix I do recommend watching ‘Saturday Night’ which recounts the 2-3 hours leading up to the very first recording of SNL in 1975. It’s a comedy and very well done, IMO.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/saturday_night_2024
I will NEVER again watch this UNIPARTY SHILL (and Epstein purveyor, I posit) EVER AGAIN!
Stupid is as stupid does ...
I hope the truth about Hanks comes out eventually. His specific mocking of Isaac Kappy’s death will come back to bite him.
Epstein, release the list!
Here's hoping!
No. I did not watch SNL50. They stopped being funny a long time ago. Tom Hanks has turned into a pompous, bitter old hag. That’s too bad. I tell you who I do enjoy watching these day - Rob Schneider! He’s hilarious and a very likable human being. Oh…I did watch Paul McCartney’s performance and loved it. He’s 82.
The Epstein list hangs nigh on the horizon. Remember the musicians playing their instruments one last time as the boat sinks in Titanic? Same energy!
Didn’t Hanks promise to leave the country if Trump won?
Didn’t watch it, forgot it was on; haven’t seen it in years. They traded in funny for self righteous so long ago, sad.
I’ve been thinking the same thing (a star or a letter) since the commercial with the women secretly voting for Kamala in “defiance” of their MAGA-cartoon husbands, because I knew that it would become everybody’s business who people voted for if Trump won. I somehow just knew it.
Thank you again, as always.
That spot accurately portrays the belief of the women at the core of the Democrat Left. They are convinced their Conservative-minded sisters have no agency whatsoever and act entirely at the direction of their husbands, fathers and other male authorities.
The irony is that this is the rights culture Hamas and its ilk seek to protect and expand. I just can't decode the goals of Left activity anymore.
that commercial was revolting and insulting!!
I did start to watch it. Even though I haven’t felt SNL to be funny at all for at least 10+ years, I figured the 50th anniversary show with all the old cast members and guests would be good for a few laughs. Boy was I wrong. It was unbearable, and I had to turn it off halfway through. They can’t seem to rid themselves of the woke political stuff, as if they think everyone still has those sentiments. Obviously they’re not reading the room, because the majority of us have moved on.
The funny thing is, I almost watched it for the same reasons you mentioned. The nostalgia and the old-timers. I got into something else and figured I could watch it later on demand. Hearing how it turned out, I'm relieved.
Yes, they are the least self-aware people on the planet.
Yes, we’ve grown up. Outgrown the drug and booze party that CA celebs can’t give up.
I kept watching and waiting for something funny. Old or new, I didn’t care. Three hours I’ll never get back. I should have known better.