Weekly SNL thread- Page 65

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 2/19/15 at 8:12pm

^^^ I can only assume the room beyond the overflow room was already booked. Otherwise, they would have put Miss Jackson there. I know I would have.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 12:02pm

I thought Dakota John was great and that most of the sketches were pretty funny. I'm surprised we haven't heard more about the ISIS stuff, especially from the "SNL is toothless" crowd.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 1:26pm

The ISIS sketch was the best. Nice to see SNL risking pissing people off again. Taran Killim was wonderful.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 1:43pm

Could someone please explain to me what SNL'S fascination is with the terrorist group ISIS?

They did a skit about them when Chris Rock was host. I chalked that up as an aberration. Last night, they did another one. I know they want to be edgy but somehow I do not see any humor in any sketch involving these wackos.

I have endured a lot over the years and can forgive some unfunny sketches. Doing one involving these thugs crosses the line with me.

I am done with them. I know people will start to hurl crap my way but that is their opinion. If it does not bother you fine. Keep watching.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 2:27pm

hmmm, I don't know. I didn't watch last night but I didn't think the last one was funny. I'm not able to see the humor in Isis. I mean, we hate them and they don't deserve reverence, but I can't laugh. Maybe if I saw that sketch I would have laughed.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 2:28pm

They did a skit about them when Chris Rock was host. I chalked that up as an aberration. Last night, they did another one. I know they want to be edgy but somehow I do not see any humor in any sketch involving these wackos.

Man, I really hate all this kind of PC crap.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 2:37pm

Yeah Roxy you are way too PC! You don't understand satire?

I found the sketch brilliant and actually quite sharp edged! Yes, funny in it's twist. That is seeing that recruits for Isis coming from the US and other countries tend to be middle to upper class kids of college age.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 2:44pm

PC POLICE PC POLICE ROXY JOINED THE PC POLICE

I hope he will be my date the PC Policemen's ball.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 2:47pm

I thought that was going to be a spoof on a Hallmark commercial last night but when I saw ISIS pull up, I burst out laughing.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 3:53pm

It was spoofing the Toyota "My Bold Dad" commercial.

I think Roxy was in SNL's target demographic when Lincoln was shot.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 4:09pm

On the USA today website is a story about the sketch. It seems I was not the only one who found the sketch offensive.

To Jane 2 - you would not have laughed.

Updated On: 3/1/15 at 04:09 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 4:32pm

Good for you, Roxy. I've turned away from things I loved in the past when they went in a direction that was antithetical to my deeply held convictions. Like Prince.

We won't be seeing you in this thread anymore, so, farewell and godspeed.

[Gorlois]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 8:14pm

I think it's important to laugh at people who try to scare us.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 8:25pm

I respect your opinion but totally disagree with it.

To include these people in a skit to elicit laughter seems to be desperate. I can never find anything associated with them funny in any way.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 8:31pm

So you should leave this thread and never return. Why darken your lips with the mention of SNL ever again?

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 8:32pm

"That is seeing that recruits for Isis coming from the US and other countries tend to be middle to upper class kids of college age. "

I get that but find it scary rather than funny, when you consider that educated people choose that life.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 8:37pm

As is typical, all of the usual Rupert Murdoch media outlets are OUTRAGED by the commercial parody and helpfully posting the entire thing on their websites so others can be OUTRAGED too.


snl father daughter ad

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 9:00pm

"Sometimes, the biggest bully in life is the way society treats women."

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 9:13pm

So maybe they did a sketch that didn't land with some people, like so many in the past. Shall we just move on in hopes of something we like better next time?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 9:18pm

Good luck

I am done with SNL.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 9:19pm

Jane, I do fine it funny that these kids join ISIS and then are upset when they can't get iPhone reception or an outlet to recharge.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 9:20pm

Roxy, Lorne is crying himself to sleep over you leaving.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 11:00pm

"Jane, I do fine it funny that these kids join ISIS and then are upset when they can't get iPhone reception or an outlet to recharge."

Was that part of the sketch?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 11:38pm

Could somebody congratulate Roxy on being done with SNL and tell him his message is loud and clear so he should STOP POSTING IN THE SNL THREAD???

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 11:39pm

No, but the set up was exactly that, a privileged upper middle class girl being driven to the airport by her Dad. A parody of a car commercial where a father drives his college aged daughter to the airport to join the Army.The iPhone antidote was one I read in an article somewhere online along with a pair of friends who joined ISIS, realized what it really was about, one ran away, the second asked to leave and was killed.