Can someone tweet this to Baldwin? I'm sure he'd be game AND he's got sway with Lorne Michaels
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Politco: White House rattled by McCarthy's spoof of Spicer
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Can someone tweet this to Baldwin? I'm sure he'd be game AND he's got sway with Lorne Michaels
Mr. Poolman
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Rosie playing Trump would drive him insane and try to remove fake news, fake channels, fake fakers off the country.
Oh man this would probably hit so close to home for a lot of those bigoted assholes and even Bannon couldn't spin the imagery in his favor at that point. He's proud of being compared to Satan and the like but being portrayed by a woman kissing his male boss would probably a blow to his ego and image.
gutter_trash
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Having Rosie play Bannon would be the ultimate
It would mean that he has to kiss Rosie. Think about that. I'm sure actors and actresses can put up with the craft and all but I do wonder sometimes.
Jorok Goldblade
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Nah, kissing puts them on equal footing. They need to maintain the power dynamic that Bannon is the power behind the throne and Donald is the puppet king or child.
Bannon needs to nurse Trump.
The Lamonster
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I don't expect SNL to push things any farther just because the Spicer skit bothered Trump.
If anything, they'll shy away and dial it back.
If anything, they'll shy away and dial it back.
Why?
Uh, why do you expect that?
Trojita
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Why?
ElectricBlanketFire
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Wat.
Yeah Trump has been crying about SNL for a long time now so it is pretty bizarre to think they'll give up.
God Damn this needs to happen
The Spicer skit is probably their biggest success this season outside of David Pumpkins, and Baldwin is hosting this week, but you think SNL will start dialing it back?
I'm sure they could find ways to include more... submissive acts. Maybe Daddy Bannon needs a nice foot rub after a hard day writing Donald's speeches. Really trigger Donald's germaphobia.
mckmas8808
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Trump is weird. He doesn't want his people to "look weak", but puts them in positions to only look that way.
The Lamonster
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SNL doesn't feel like it's their job to 'attack' any specific politicians. They just want to be funny.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/saturday-night-live-trump-228874
The hosts of Weekend Update even went out of their way to defend Trump.
http://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump...colin-jost-michael-che-smart-hardworking-nbc/
Here's an article from a dissatisfied Rolling Stone writer practically begging SNL to go on the attack last September:
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news...post-trump-political-credibility-back-w441934
None of that suggests pulling back.
I think a lot has shifted post-election. Pre-election, when he was seen as having no shot at winning, there was an impulse to lean towards civility, partly out of a desire to "go high" and partly out of a desire to try to lean against any notion of Trump resisting the results. Seeing the outcome actually come out for Trump though has radicalized a lot of people away from that.
Also, nothing is funnier than knowing that the skit you're watching is psychological torture for the president, and imagining how he's reacting!
Except every week they seem to attack him harder than before. And.. they ARE a business after all.. so I seriously doubt they're going to deliberately alienate a large chunk of the population who voted for him by making political affiliations outright.
Their actions contradict the idea that they think he's smart and doesn't deserve to be roasted.
Bobby Roberts
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The date on all these articles is September 2016.
Things have definitely changed since last September.
First big one being that Trump actually won the presidency.
They're going in.
All your links are from last September. Whatever can be gleaned from those interviews is meaningless now that we have seen several actual shows in the Trump era. You are suggesting that SNL will dial back their satire because the Trump admin has reacted negatively to it, which is absurd on its face and not supported in your links even if they were still relevant.
The Lamonster
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I don't disagree that the articles I linked are outdated, as times have changed since then, but they do offer a glimpse into the general mindset of SNL. It just doesn't seem like they feel their role is to be attack dogs in the political world.
That said, I am with you guys - I hope they do intensify these 'attacks;' I'm just not getting my hopes up for it.
That said, I am with you guys - I hope they do intensify these 'attacks;' I'm just not getting my hopes up for it.
The things you quoted don't really support what you are saying though. Lorne Michaels saying they are fundamentally non-partisan doesn't meant they don't or won't go on the "attack" when they feel it's warranted. It's just a reminder that they aren't a show with an inherent political agenda. And the quotes from Jost and Che just read like warnings not to underestimate or mischaracterize Trump. I don't know what that had to do with your point at all.
But the considering the political landscape was snapped in half during the election, no, I don't think this still offers a glimpse into the mindset of SNL. And as I mentioned before, their actions contradict everything you quoted from September.
echoshifting
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The buzz on this is crazy. They pretty much have to do it now.
SNL is probably gonna do it. The ratings will be YUGE
BlastProcessing
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Think about why they had Kristen Stewart host last week. Does she have a big movie coming out? Anything to promote? Or did SNL just bring her on because Trump is obsessed with her? I honestly think that SNL is writing their political sketches right now for an audience of one.
@CNN calling out Spicer's Kellyanne bullshit on twitter atm.
I don't remember any other time when CNN made so many open statements as "CNN", answering to someone. Seems unprecedented.
NullPointer
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CNN going in hard with "those are the facts". Good for them.@CNN calling out Spicer's Kellyanne bullshit on twitter atm.
Trump's lies are helping them brand themselves.
Mighty Chin
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Does nobody not remember Back when Hartman and Hooks played The Clintons where the police showed up for a domestic abuse report. Bill didn't want to press charges.
That was 25 years ago. Never heard from the left about SNL being unfair to the Clintons.
That was 25 years ago. Never heard from the left about SNL being unfair to the Clintons.
They went after Chelsea Clinton's lack of attractiveness as a teenager too. It makes random Facebook posts about Barron seem like nothing.
They also had a man (Will Ferrel) play Janet Reno, America's first female attorney general, and the big "joke" was that she was such a manish (read lesbian) woman that they had her literally busting through doors to enter a room.
Boogie9IGN
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I'm picturing Trump watching SNL like Chancellor Sutter watching Gordon Dietrich's parody show in V for Vendetta and it makes me so happy
Yes. And a kiss. There has to be a kiss, sear it into Donald's brain.
Also, "did you see it, did you see how big it was? The biggest" "are we talking about your crowd or something else?" "I've seen bigger"
It gives him an easy out if he needs to drop them.
Trump can say the person he fired was weak/bad for the country AND he can play it up as him being a decisive leader who deals with problems like that quickly.
It's really win-win for Bannon who has a Dorito wearing a Pomeranian as the figurehead for this exact purpose when his policies go pear-shaped, except Trump can't be fired and just has to take the public lashings over and over wand will have an endless supply of soulless morons to fire.
SNL only makes fun of politics when there is something in politics to make fun of. If Trump actually started acting like the President of the United States should for a week, Alec Baldwin would be able to take a week off from SNL and we would have a short reprieve from the madness of Trump in real life.
TheUnsunghero26
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WTF. It is the best SNL caricature of this decade
Are you joking
He single handedly made them culturally relevant for the first time since the 90's
Yeah, SNL hasn't been this relevant and on fire since the Sarah Palin days.
Um, Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impression had a noticeable effect on the 2008 campaign. More so than Baldwin's Trump so far / she managed to utterly destroy Palin in the public eye in an astonishingly effective way.
Watching those clips even now makes me laugh.
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