SNL skit slams Teresa

[newsguyatl]

"Bin Laden" says if Teresa were his wife, he'd beat her constantly.


sorry, that shit's not funny.

even if the joke were on laura.

[TimeToGo]

1. Truly

[stepnw1f]

2. Not Funny (nt)

[AlamoDemoc]

3. I agree, not funny at all

[endnote]

44. Not funny, but it makes sense that OBL would hate Teresa (strong woman)

[Robbie67]

4. ummm...

well...nevermind

I'll try and see it

[YouLiedTheyDied]

7. no it wasn't funny, it was disgusting

But seriously, how many of us would have been outraged if he said it about that drugged up stepford wife? I was beaten by my ex husband, that was when I decided to never be with a man again and have been exclusively with women since, women can be emotionally abusive, but I've never experienced physical abuse or intimidation with another woman... not to say a nice spank on the bumm hasn;t been enjoyed.

Anybody have an email address to send a nasty complaint message to? Maybe if we flood them now they will apologize by the end of the show!

[DefenseLawyer]

27. I don't mean to make light

of or denigrate your situation in any way, but I really don't think having a character playing Osama Bin Laden saying he would beat his wife is advocating domestic abuse. Bin Laden is perhaps the most evil man of earth not someone any reasonable person would choose to emulate. I think it just wasn't funny.

[texas is the reason]

51. you suck at teh freeping.

i give you 10 more posts, tops.

[girl gone mad]

55. Um..

huh?

I've tried deciphering your post, but it sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me.

[AmerDem]

5. SNL is a mix of no talent losers

gone are the days when they lampooned all that was wrong with politics. Now the prop up all the FAUX News, CNN talking points.

What an awful unfunny show!

[RummyTheDummy]

28. Ummmmm

Are you serious?

[AmerDem]

32. perhaps you should read it again!

How old are you? Do you remember the days when SNL was ANTI establishment? If not get a clue and understand their roots otherwise shut the fuck up! Had my fill of nitwits today!

[RummyTheDummy]

53. First off

Go fuck yourself

Two, I've been watching the show since it STARTED. I've watched it since the Wolverines sketch, okay. I would put my knowledge of the show up there with ANYONE. I know its history quite well, thank you.

Anyone who understands the show, and clearly many here, INCLUDING YOURSELF do not, know the show is like a sports team. Some years you have good talent and the team is very good. And some years, you don't have as much talent and the show isn't very good i.e. the Athony Michael Hall-Robert Downey Jr. year.

But regardless, I rarely take it as a personal insult when it is not very good i.e. the Chris Farley era. You seem to take it personally, which is sick and frankly really fucking twisted.

Get over yourself, asshole!

[high density]

6. They did say it was "translated by the State Department..."

:eyes:

[meisje]

8. 2nd skit unfunny - I wish I had a gong

[Quetzal]

9. I stopped watching that shit last week

I've been a devoted SNL for my entire teenage life. Last week, after watching some of the most humorless comedy on television, I decided excommunicate SNL from my comedy show lineup.

[ShaneGR]

10. I thought it was funny what the OBL character said about Bush

He wasn't voting for Bush because Bush hadn't been paying him any attention since he invaded Iraq.

[YouLiedTheyDied]

11. that was funny sgr

ntxt

[novadem]

12. Isn't Eminem on tonight?

Let's see who still hates SNL when he no doubt slams the Shrub.

[NightOwwl]

17. What does Eminem's performance

have to do with a tasteless SNL skit?

[novadem]

19. They are both SNL productions

and folks are writing off SNL due to a bad skit. Stay tuned, that is all I'm saying.

[novadem]

29. See there?

Now it's our favorite show again.

[newsguyatl]

36. please go back to your board

[NightOwwl]

39. Honey, I don't know who you are talking to...

but I live in California and SNL hasn't even aired yet. But see, I'm a grownup, and I don't have to watch the show in order to know that a skit about wife-beating is about as low as you can go.

[Technowitch]

13. SNL stopped being funny YEARS ago

Of course, I was one of those who pretty much thought it stopped being funny after Belushi, Ackroyd, and Chase left... Goes to show how old I am. Ha!

[Old and In the Way]

31. I'm with you!

Man, those were the days of insanely great comedy. People would leave the bars at 11:00PM on Saturday just so they'd catch the show. It truely was "must see TV" back in the old days.

PS - I actually got to see most of the original cast members in the National Lampoon Radio Show that was playing at the New Palladium in NYC before they went "live". I think that was in '75.

:-)

[endnote]

46. NOT true. But now it's unfunny again after some of the best left

over the last couple of years...

[Kahuna]

57. Agreed. There have been some very good years and some...

very bad years. The people who say it hasn't been good since the 70s haven't watched it since the 70s. So how would they know? I know they haven't watched it since the 70s because to say that the, Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Jon, Lovit, Mike Myers, Will Ferrill, Cheri Oteri, Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon years sucked, is not true. Those were some great cast members and some great years. However, all the other years that didn't include these cast members, sucked to me. :P

[NightOwwl]

14. In comedy there are some lines you just don't cross.

What an unbelievably stupid thing for them to do.

[YouLiedTheyDied]

16. maybe it was subliminal

paint him as the hateful bastard that he is and point out he is still at large because of Bushie-poos incompetance!

[NightOwwl]

18. SNL could never come up with something as nuanced as your theory.

BTW, welcome to DU :hi:

[YouLiedTheyDied]

25. thanks

feels like family around here... they banned me from freeperville... decided to stop messing with them and just spend time with sane people!

[newsguyatl]

37. riight.

[DireStrike]

15. SNL hasn't been funny for years

[pretzel4gore]

20. at least they're finally leaving bill clinton alone

newest politically correct soft target must be kerry's wife.....

[Mr_Spock]

21. I laughed - I guess I'm a misogynist!

Oh, well, sue me. They were making fun of her being her own person - not acceptable in Muslim circles - I thought it was a compliment to her.

[BubbaBigDogBear]

24. I'm with you Spock

The NEEDS of the few outweigh the WANTS of the many.

[lizzieforkerry]

22. OK but the McCain cartoon was hilarious

[Mr_Spock]

23. HOLY SMOKE! That McCain animation was to die for funny!!

I was trying desperately not to make the kids up I was laughing so hard!!

[endnote]

45. The McCain cartoon was AWESOME.

That is exactly what I think goes on with McCain...

[tilsammans]

26. Very unfunny sketch . . .

. . . even without the part about wife beating.

But the McCain cartoon was hilarious!

[lizzieforkerry]

30. Eminem is moshing it for us now!

[novadem]

34. What is ironic is that Eminem is probably most famous for a song

about violence against women, and he is praised in this thread which condemns an SNL skit about wife-beating.

Politics make strange bedfellows, indeed.

[lizzieforkerry]

40. I praise the message not the messenger

[lizzieforkerry]

38. Wow I guess he didn't have time to memorize the words.

[girl gone mad]

56. huh?

Are you trying to accuse him of lip synching or something?

It's pretty silly if you are.

[Zen Democrat]

33. Robert Smigle's cartoon about John McCain was "to die for" funny.

I mean the part when in front of the mirror to the Door's "The End" had me howling. And Bush saying only "mixed messages", "fuzzy math", "9/11". That one was a keeper and in the grand tradition of SNL.

[newsguyatl]

41. hmm, i thought it was rather lame

i tried to laugh, but couldn't

[endnote]

47. YES YES YES YES. I taped it.

[Mr_Spock]

49. Post it on the net!

I want to play it over and over again :D

[iwantmycountryback]

62. That was great

It was classic when Bush said "9/11" and the audience started cheering.

[Zen Democrat]

35. Eminem: VOTE

He was great.

[texas is the reason]

42. weeeaaaaaaaahhhh!!! boo f'ing hoo. it sounds pretty funny to me.

so you've never heard a good dead baby joke? laughing at something does not mean you condone it. to imply that they crossed some sort of a line here is really to support censorship. you should join the micheal powell fan club or purchase clearchannel or sinclair stock if that is your position.
in addition, i know this may come as a shock to many here, but from the people i talk to, theresa is THE single biggest liability on the kerry ticket. it seems that every point that i make for kerry to undecided/apolitical voters is countered with "yeah, but what do you think about his wife". if you have a such a thin skin for criticism of her, you are going to be in for a long 8 years. it is a good thing that we are not voting for first lady- we would be losing BIG! i have not spoken to a single non-liberal who liked her at all.

[YouLiedTheyDied]

43. if it gets the vote out

who cares... we are going to win on the numbers. We will overwhelm them with our GOTV efforts and the insanity will end. This election will be won with the youth of America.

[texas is the reason]

50. ooohhkay. rrriight. clearly the statements of a FREE PERson.

yes, you must be a very FREE PERson to show such optimism for our GOTV efforts. you know, there are those that would try to derail these efforts by instilling a false sense of complacency in DU, an integral part of the democratic grassroots community. you must be a very FREE PERson indeed.

[CatWoman]

48. I'm sorry -- I thought it was very funny

THIS IS COMEDY, PEOPLE!!!!!!

A lot of people were dissed on SNL tonite -- on both sides of the aisle.

[footinmouth]

58. I laughed my ass off

I thought the opening skit was hilarious and they did quite a number on Ashlee Simpson's performance from last week. I guess I'm just easily amused.

[Kahuna]

59. Me too. I roared.

I'm zipping up my flame retardant suit. Flame me!!!! I can take it!!! :grr:

[Hoffnung]

61. I agree with SNL if my gf mouths off I'm going to punch her in the mouth

women should know their places.




ARE YOU F***ING NUTS??? If there was ever a line it was crossed tonight just because someone says something offensive in the form of a joke doesnt make it funny! If they made a simular "joke" about an african american,jewish or gay person I don't think any of us would be laughing women should not be fair game either.

[Kahuna]

63. Different stokes...oops! I mean. Whatever floats your boat...

We're all entitled to our own opinion. :shrug: Further, I don't see what being black or gay or Jewish has to do with it. Apples and oranges, my friend. Would you feel the same way if bush was the subject of the joke? We can laugh because we know that no one is seriously advocating beating up THK. It was a joke.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

52. Um, I thought it was hilarious!!

This is where liberalism goes wrong.

Come on people -- it was OSAMA BIN LADEN who said this in the skit. It wasn't John Kerry. It was the #1 terrorist in the world, the #1 enemy of America, the guy George W Bush failed to catch.

It's a shame that extreme political correctness blocks your ability to laugh at an SNL skit about Osama Frickin Bin Laden..

[secular_warrior]

54. Beating women is cool

Hey this is "art", as the Eminem followers would say. After all, it's not "real". SNL's simply doing "characters" and telling "stories", just as Vanilla Em himself does, right ?

[rasputin1952]

60. I am locking this thread...

The notion that abuse could be "funny" is over the top.

Thanks for the understanding.