Video: The Jack Murtha and Joe Biden SNL Skit
Sunday October 26, 2008
Categories: Entertainment, Politics
Pretty shocking that SNL would hit the Democrats this hard. Jack Murtha blathers on about how ignorant Western PA is and Biden is turned into a prophet who gives shout outs to local politicians in the crowd and predicts that...
Filed Under: Barack Obama, comedy, Jack Murtha, Joe Biden, presidential election, Saturday Night Live, skit, SNL, vice president, video, VP
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I also thought the sketch was funny, and I say that as what Mihele terms an "Obamanite." I also agree it went overly long and ran out of steam, but that's been true of a lot of SNL sketches.
Didn't think Hammond (who is the greatest SNL castmember of all time) quite nailed Murtha, but he's kinda hard to imitate.
Satire is the art of taking what is goofy and making it look silly on a cosmic level. They did a pretty good job by that standard, they fif pretty well.
'Can't say SNL is biased, can you, Michelle?
I've already voted for His Obamatude myself, and I found the sketch funny, too. It would have been funnier if they'd moved on after about two minutes, but it must be hard to find Demcoratic gaffes to mock this year.
Robert, are you saying that there is no mocking those gaffes that are humorous to start with?
It would sort of trying to spoof "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam..."
"Pretty shocking that SNL would hit the Democrats this hard."
This your first time watching the show? I guess you were a MadTV gal when Phil Hartman and Darrel Hammond endlessly mocked Clinton for 8 years, huh? (Not to mention Letterman.) God, you people are ridiculous.
I know it must be unimaginably difficult to grasp, but yes, intelligent minds (including SNL and the "MSM") go after hypocrisy and stupidity in the world. You just can't accept the fact that you've had an utter clown in the White House for the last 8 years, so instead of blaming the disease, you attack the symptom. Your party has had the lion's share of disaster and cant recently, so naturally it gets attacked.
Your idea of fairness is infantile. Biden screws up every now and then, but Palin is a walking farce. Thus the respective mocking. Not everything deserves to be a wash.
Thank you Gillian - you are again the first person on the thread to make a personal attack. Congratuations.
thanks gillian, you beat me to it. republicans are such victims. they know how to play that card all too well. whiners.
Why is it so shocking? Despite the right wing's media lies, SNL and others have been hitting the dems and especially Obama hard from day one.
SNL's first political skit of the season was ridiculing Obama. Not drooning on forever and ever about Rev. Wright like Fox does, doesn't equate to "giving a pass" as Sean Hannity ridiculously said last night. I think three weeks of playing it all day every day and constantly mentioning it for 8 months is overtop enough.
Oh yeah, and what Gillian said. Instead of accepting Palin gets mocked because she's an idiot who provides so much material; folks like you have to pretend it's because of biased. News flash, the people at SNL want to get paid; they do that by getting people to laugh at whatever they can.
Why is it so shocking? Despite the right wing's media lies, SNL and others have been hitting the dems and especially Obama hard from day one.
SNL's first political skit of the season was ridiculing Obama. Not drooning on forever and ever about Rev. Wright like Fox does, doesn't equate to "giving a pass" as Sean Hannity ridiculously said last night. I think three weeks of playing it all day every day and constantly mentioning it for 8 months is overtop enough.
Oh yeah, and what Gillian said. Instead of accepting Palin gets mocked because she's an idiot who provides so much material; folks like you have to pretend it's because of biased. News flash, the people at SNL want to get paid; they do that by getting people to laugh at whatever they can.
what's funnier still, is the real clip of mccain agreeing with murtha's remarks about pennsylvania!
mcsame: "i couldn't agree with them more! [bush-like look of 'duh' on his face] i couldn't agree with you less."
Here's a prime example of why Palin get's so mercilessly mocked. The woman is absolutely and utterly clueless: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/todd-palmer-and-rob-pringle/in-case-you-werent-scared_b_138089.html
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