last night's SNL

[Sarah]

I was appalled that John McCain and Sarah Palin both appeared on the election special last night. 

P.S.  Ms. Palin was terrifying.

[samir]

clips are up at Hulu

and all of them, on the site at least, are very much not funny.

[Gagneaux]

I was appalled that John McCain and Sarah Palin both appeared on the election special last night. 

P.S.  Ms. Palin was terrifying.

This has been bothering me for a while. I don't understand how SNL can even humor the idea of letting those two trolls appear "fun" or even human on that show. I actually believe that there are people who will end up voting for McCain just because he seems to have a sense of humor about himself.

For shame SNL!

[Trembling Eagle]

I was appalled that John McCain and Sarah Palin both appeared on the election special last night. 

P.S.  Ms. Palin was terrifying.

This has been bothering me for a while. I don't understand how SNL can even humor the idea of letting those two trolls appear "fun" or even human on that show. I actually believe that there are people who will end up voting for McCain just because he seems to have a sense of humor about himself.

For shame SNL!

Lorne Micahels is supposedly on the dark side.

It won't matter in the long run
anybody dumb enuff to be swayed by stuff like that wasn't gonna make the right vote anyway

[Andy]

good, insightful point.  the other side are a bunch of subhumans.

[Trembling Eagle]

good, insightful point.  the other side are a bunch of subhumans.

Yeah, they sure are. Their regressive economic policies ALONE are immoral and unethical. But the disgusting campaign the republicans have run this year appealing to the most base, ugly elements of their party painting the opposition candidate as "other" "dangerous" "terrorist sympathizer" seals the deal. Especially to anyone that understands the context of such comments and our country's history.
Torture, pre emptive war, illegal wire tapping, demonizing homosexuals...on and on.


FUCK a bunch of republicans.

[daveB from Oakland]

I was appalled that John McCain and Sarah Palin both appeared on the election special last night. 

P.S.  Ms. Palin was terrifying.

Jesus Christ on a pogo stick ... they were both on the primetime special the night before the election? Didn't there used to be an unspoken decorum about these things? As in: it's okay to have some fun, but in the final hours before the vote it's time to cut out the nonsense. I loved the HillaryPoehler/TinaFaylin sketch and the VP debate sketch ... But this monday-night-surprise move is perhaps the most whorish thing SNL has ever done.

[jamesp]

I was appalled that John McCain and Sarah Palin both appeared on the election special last night. 

P.S.  Ms. Palin was terrifying.

Jesus Christ on a pogo stick ... they were both on the primetime special the night before the election? Didn't there used to be an unspoken decorum about these things? As in: it's okay to have some fun, but in the final hours before the vote it's time to cut out the nonsense. I loved the HillaryPoehler/TinaFaylin sketch and the VP debate sketch ... But this monday-night-surprise move is perhaps the most whorish thing SNL has ever done.

NBC is doing whatever they can to milk the SNL election mania success right now. In two weeks, SNL will be back at average ratings and people will forget about it again.

I didn't see the special last night but I assumed it was just a repeat of all the clips from the past season about the election. Was there actually new material? It seems way too difficult to do a 90minute show for Saturday and then an entirely new 2 hour show two days later.

[daveB from Oakland]

I didn't see the special last night but I assumed it was just a repeat of all the clips from the past season about the election. Was there actually new material? It seems way too difficult to do a 90minute show for Saturday and then an entirely new 2 hour show two days later.

I only watched the McCain and Palin appearances on Hulu. They were (probably) prerecorded but "new" to the viewing public. I believe the special was mostly old stuff, not just from this year but from past political seasons. But McCain and Palin doing new appearances the night before ... that's the thing that rubbed me the wrong way.

Palin's monologue was utterly moronic. It sounded like she wrote it herself. It was that bad.

[samir]

Some stuff was clearly recorded, like the intro from Poehler-as-Clinton. I don't think that McCain and Palin were actually there last night, it didn't have the look of a LIVE show.

[tenspeed]

Palin's monologue was utterly moronic. It sounded like she wrote it herself. It was that bad.

Yeah.  It must have been her campaign advisers and speechwriters that came up with that little song and dance.   Only they could have devised something so bad.  And the audience was dead silent.  I was cringing from embarrassment throughout, not in the Steve Carell/Larry David sort of way, but in a genuine "I feel so bad for you" sort of way. 

....on second thought, maybe because of the Monday night shift-differential, NBC flew out some of Leno's writers to fill in.  Just a theory.

[Sarah]

Just to clarify:  I didn't post because I was worried the McCain and Palin appearances on the special last night would sway people.  I just thought they were undignified, inappropriate, and pathetic.  And that Palin--or someone--thought it was funny to threaten revocation of NBC's license if SNL continued to parody her after McCain's of-course-certain victory really gave me the creeps.

[tenspeed]

And that Palin--or someone--thought it was funny to threaten revocation of NBC's license if SNL continued to parody her after McCain's of-course-certain victory really gave me the creeps.

Yeah.  Being the paranoid person that I am, I couldn't help but imagine this as some re-envisioned War of the Worlds broadcast.  Even the setting was eery, with the dark background and no indication it was an SNL skit, not even laughter--only a tiny NBC logo at the bottom left.

creepy...

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Just to clarify:  I didn't post because I was worried the McCain and Palin appearances on the special last night would sway people.  I just thought they were undignified, inappropriate, and pathetic.

Agreed completely.  It won't sway any voters.  It just plain sucked.  Palin's attempts at humor are unbearable.

[emma]

Just to clarify:  I didn't post because I was worried the McCain and Palin appearances on the special last night would sway people.  I just thought they were undignified, inappropriate, and pathetic.

Agreed completely.  It won't sway any voters.  It just plain sucked.  Palin's attempts at humor are unbearable.

I did have an argument with a friend of mine, though, who was like "well at least she has a sense of humour about herself! She seems nice enough!" The fact that they could have made anyone think that for even a second makes me so mad at SNL.