January 21, 2024
The James Austin Johnson impersonation of Donald Trump is so good they must be worried it will...
... transcend the defenses of the "SNL" audience and cause them to bond with the man they think they need to hate.
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I’d laugh if these SNL pricks were evenhanded, but that’s apparently an ancient concept.
Fuck ‘em.
"The James Austin Johnson impersonation of Donald Trump is so good"
But not as good as Trump being Trump.
"they must be worried it will... transcend the defenses of the "SNL" audience and cause them the to bond with the man they think they need to hate."
One reason they won't show much of the actual man doing his actual thing.
Democrat Party Propaganda on NBC.
Unwatchable.
He's great.
The actress playing the lawyer isn't cute enough.
What he says about having lousy lawyers may or may not be true, but I guarantee that lawfare has scared the shit out of people who would otherwise work for/with Trump.
Since when is defending a client something that will get you hounded out of the profession?
Liberals are a disgrace...
Strange SNL(D) NBC(D) never manage to mock Joe Biden.
I laughed out loud a couple of times, my eyebrows popped up at what seemed like audacious truisms. Perhaps, ironically, it captured some of the playful hyperbole and self aggrandizement that is now Trump's signature shtick. This impersonation doesn't have the meanness of Alec Baldwin's version. Hmm, does it mean that SNL is resigned to Trump's return as President? Even they might prefer him to 4 more years of Biden's ruination of the country.
OK I watched a bit. He's good at mocking Trump. He's got it down. People who watch SNL are all democrat Biden supports. Most Trump supporters do not watch NBC(D) anything.
NBC(D) democrat party skit managed to mock trump and dump on all the others.... barely touch haley.
Trump V Biden... guess what happens next?
SNL indulged Trump love before wallowing in Trump hate and the evolution of PoO as a forward-looking burden.
So has SNL done ANY biden spoofs? I mean they mercilessly mocked Gerald Ford for falling down, this guy is monumental. I do not watch it, but am curious.
Johnson and Tyler Fischer (Gutfeld Show) do the best Trump impressions, IMHO.
If only he didn't look more like Bill Clinton.
No. The folks who hate Trump still hate Trump.
there will be no bonding. It's all confirmation of their hatred.
It doesn't help that Trump is that level of ding dong.
Bit racist and sexist when SNL had to talk about Haley and Ramaswamy. And then they went into attacking Trump supporters.
Do they want Trump to win?
I watched the monologue. The DNC consultant really dropped the ball when SNL ran the script by him for approval. Any jokes directed against Trump's cognitive abilities or possible dementia only serves to draw attention to Biden's difficulties in that area. Likewise, ixnay on opening with Trump's female lawyer and her talk about her lack of experience. This might cause the viewer to think about the Fanni Willis brouhaha and draw invidious comparisons....Perhaps later in the season they can have Stormy Daniels as the guest host. She can play Jill Biden in a skit.
Can't get past the whistling "s."
I know of at least two comics who are better. Bob DiBono is one. He does private parties. And he writes better material.
Great vocal impression. Pretty good physical. Should be glad, I guess, that it was as positive as it was. Too bad the writers couldn't come up with much of anything funny for him to say.
I don't think they really know how to any more.
Comic Shane Gillis is the best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqZrIN1aHCQ
He does the Trump voice and rhythms quite well- it helps if you just listen rather than watch.
Just wait until they find out Trump puts his pants on both legs at the same time.
Back in 2016, SNL had a great Trump impersonator, but then Alec Baldwin, who loves doing impersonations despite having no talent for it, stepped in because he’s a bigger name. If Baldwin can stay out of jail through the election, they have the option to do it again if the good Trump impersonator threatens to make Trump likeable.
There is a photo of an SNL executive producer strolling with Biden at Camp David. Remember the article you blogged about wanting to jail meme makers if they were coordinating with Trump. They always follow Goebbels dictum and accuse the other side of whatever they are doing.
90% of 90 year olds can imitate Biden with no problem. Or practice.
So boring. So old. So unfunny.
That was the best impersonation of Trump I have ever seen. Trump has a big enough sense of humor that I bet he laughed at it as well.
It's a good imitation of Trump.
But Alec Baldwin's was a better impression of Trump. Baldwin was better at capturing the malevolence of Trump.
James Austin Johnson's "Trump" looks more like John Cornyn than Donald Trump. Where is the greasy bronzer? Where is the cyclonic hair? Trump has never, ever, sounded as cheery as James Austin's Johnson's impersonation.
This blog needs an official Trump Appreciation Day. A day when we all come together and talk about how he never does anything wrong and how we owe our lives to him and will sacrifice our babies for him. And of course we will all agree that no one in history has been victimized as much as he has been. Except of course the Palestinians.
Trump and the Palestinians. Two things that never stop making everything about themselves and how innocent they are and how everyone is just out to get them and very very mean to them. Their “day of rage” is his day of rage. All 365 of them each year.
"This is so Good", she lied... I don't think anyone has to worry about this guy influencing anyone for anything. Just more democrat party member lib shitheads mocking republicans.
There are lots of great lawyers with unsavory clients, especially in NYC. But they expect clients to take their advice and pay their bills.
Fani Willis was the comic gold this week on so many levels.
If a courtroom sketch, why not tap the gold by having Trump in that courthouse?
We know the answer, don't we?
Comedy is not the priority at SNL.
He's good. "Very strange, very Twin Peaks..."
I LOL'd at that
It's a really good impression and he does poke fun at Trump pretty hard, but you get the impression that he's not doing it in a mean way. And that makes it funnier.
Don't sell yourself short Dave. I'm sure a lot of us here laugh at you.
Blogger Dave Begley said...
So boring. So old. So unfunny.
It was OK. Like Iman, I like Tyler Fisher's DJT too.
The trump approved Shawn farash does it better
https://youtu.be/5A-mUbW0VsU?si=_mpuLitXU5FkDuTO
Meanwhile McWhorter goes deep moron, in a Glenn show upcoming clip.
Shawn Farash is the best Trump impersonator. His voice and mannerisms are spot on.
BTW, the word from multiple sources is that DeSantis is going to drop out and endorse President Trump, maybe as early as Tuesday.
Well, I first heard it would be by Tuesday and it definitely was. DeSantis has of this afternoon, dropped out of the Presidential race and endorsed President Trump.
hpudding said...
This blog needs an official Trump Appreciation Day.
There is plenty of Trump love around here, to be sure. But honestly, any fair reading of the comments would notice that even among his many supporters, most have a great deal to say that is critical, often harshly critical. I've never been a fan of the guy, but he certainly has my support. I won't bother explaining why, it's been done to death.
I've enjoyed your clear-eyed defense of Israel, and accurate condemnation of Hamas. It has made me rethink my opinion of you to a large extent. I wish you would look a bit more closely at some of your own biases. We all have them.
I couldnt stop focusing on the paperclip.
Hopefully Gov FL has dropped out and endorsed before DJT adopted Ron DeStupid.
Curious George is right: Shane Gillis does the best Trump impersonation. Much, much better than this guy.
Still not funny. I didn’t even chuckle once.
SNL has TDS
Somewhere I saw a South Asian stand-up comic say he wanted Vivek to become President so he could get a spot on SNL.
As many here know, we live in a Trump property. Get to see his oldest boys a bit, and even his older daughter on occasion. Security is always tight when their father pops in and spends the night. But the security agents here get to talk with him on occasion. Talked to one last week, who May vote for him this time, despite being a registered Democrat. They are the real deal. He first met the older boys at a company picnic, where they were dressed in wife beater tops and cargo pants shorts. They see Eric the most, since he is more involved in running the place. This guy has talked one-on-one with the father several times. In that case, Trump had some of the Bill Clinton charisma going on, giving the person he’s talking to his undivided attention. Upon learning his name, the first time, he asked if he was Irish (yes). Trump said he looked Irish. He (of course) loves the Irish. How does he like working there? Etc. Then someone told him it was time to leave. He turned, and almost instantly, seeing cameras, turned into the camera hound that we have known for years. His entire demeanor changed upon seeing the cameras. Still, years later, he still knows the guy’s name.
We see him occasionally here. My partner thinks that he recognizes her, esp when security put her up front a year and a half ago, when she was still on a walker. When he waved, a couple months ago, she was sure it was for her. Right. And for the rest of the crowd filling the lobby, looking into the (DJT) restaurant, where he was meeting with people over lunch on the far end of it. That time, after a half hour, we split early, to beat the crowd, when he left the restaurant. She knows when he is coming before almost everyone else, because she is tight with security here, and now knows some of his advance security team. With one of them, she has a running gag, that when she feels his gun, she asks if that means that he is happy to see her. I should add, that when he is going to be here, I lock up all my guns in the room.
"There is a photo of an SNL executive producer strolling with Biden at Camp David."
LOL
NBC is just a propaganda arm to The Party.
Trump is funnier.
SNL should have the Trump impersonator make fun of its previous Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin.
Only Trump can shoot someone and get away with it.
Listened to first 10 minutes of McWhorter clip. Eminently sensible to me. Long past the time one can call that deep moron without exposing oneself as a loon.
It's a good impersonation, but I have no sense of humor about the legal profession's collusion in the effort to blackball attorneys who represent disfavored clients, or the media's celebration of that effort.
I thought it was ok... As an impression, it seemed good, though I actively avoid watching Trump himself (and Biden, just as I avoided watching Obama and Clinton and Bush and generally avoiding watching all politicians).
But the material - I gather that they were trying to point up three main things: 1. Trump is a criminal, and most notably a sex criminal. 2. Trump is old and addled. 3. Separately from being old and addled, Trump rambles.
On the first, they really dropped the ball - one lousy joke? But I guess he doesn't give them much to work with, compared to Biden. Echoing William above, who I now see also uses the phrase "drop the ball," do you really want to remind prospective Biden supporters that he "sniffs little girls' hair" so that their own minds can fill in the blanks about what that means, and just possibly might remind them of actual video of him doing that and worse, whereas E. Jean Carroll is a now-old woman who claims a rape two or three decades ago or thereabouts, who can say, really, that was so traumatic that she laughed about it with friends?
On the second, William already said everything.
On the third, this actor just makes "taking" sound like the confirmed links of a stand-up routine - which is also how I understand Trump actually comes across in speaking. He - Trump, that is - is a decent stand-up act, maybe an opener - which is more than can be said of any other politician I can think of.
Now hearing that Ron DeSantis is dropping out of the race.
DeSantis endorses Trump. Now what?
"This blog needs an official Trump Appreciation Day."
I agree, hp. What's your birthday?
Howard: "Don't sell yourself short Dave. I'm sure a lot of us here laugh at you."
No doubt.
Dunning-Kruger is a real thing.
hpudding: "Trump and the Palestinians. Two things that never stop making everything about themselves and how innocent they are and how everyone is just out to get them and very very mean to them. Their “day of rage” is his day of rage. All 365 of them each year."
LOL
Classic hpudding hyperbole. Over the top as always.
However, if you think about, hpudding's comment would actually make for a really funny SNL skit (from a dem/left point of view).
You could have Hamas guys showing up to a Trump press conference and claiming they felt sorry for Trump and felt a kinship with him and would be happy to execute his opponents or RPG the dems or show the US what a real insurrection looks like.
Or have Hamas show up at Mar a lago doing their "From the River to the sea" thing and get confused by Mar a lago being between the inland waterway and the Atlantic and having lots of Jews living around there.
(Insert 1950's laugh track here)
The possibilities are endless...though all from a dem/left perspective of course. But that is the content direction SNL chose long ago when they decided to lock down a specific viewer market segment when the maket became irretrievably "atomitized".
good impersonation. Terrible terrible content. boring
You watch too much of this stuff. Your standards are low.
“That ain’t pudding!”
—- Iman
Nobody does Trump better than Trump but this is a good impersonation. Trump is probably our funniest POTUS since Reagan, and like Reagan its extremely hard to parody him.
As for the actual "jokes" - just a tired rehash of all the anti-Trump humor we've seen for 6 years. Its not just that SNL only mocks conservatives and Republicans - its not good at it. WHen's the last time anyone at SNL (outside of Dave Chappelle) did something truly funny? I'd say 10 years, at least.
But SNL is in the same situation as the Late Nite Talk shows. Their audiences are so stupid, they can throw any kind of crap out and their dumbo fans will lap it up. The other 95 percent of the USA just ingnores it.
"This blog needs an official Trump Appreciation Day."
I agree, hp. What's your birthday?
With that joker, gotta be April 1st, narr.
Go Bills, Scalp the Chiefs!
Saturday Night Live needs to be more careful. This Johnson guy's too appealing. Remember what happened back in the '30's when their German affiliate hired Charlie Chaplin to portray that annoying third-rate politician?
Good impersonation on speech and mannerisms. Hair not quite right, though. Needs more of an orange tint.
I was disappointed to hear McWhorter start using pejoratives like that - I think the mask slipped a little and revealed the way he really thinks. And the way he backtracked, indicates that he knows it doesn't reflect well on him. He usually keeps his intellectual distance, an aloofness, and this was a visceral, unprompted reaction.
The Feared Unwashed Menace; The Morons. The problem is, McWhorter is uncritically assigning that category to anyone that thinks favorably about Trump, thinking that this favor is adoration, emotionally-based, unthinking devotion. He doesn't see his own devotion.
I don't have many illusions about Trump. I ignore what he says and I watch what he does - and I see how the opposition moves, and has been moving, and find that to be the much bigger problem. But according to the intellectual class like McWhorter, with my multiple college degrees and several notable achievements in life, I'm likely to be a 'moron'. There are many of us who see this un-self-aware, problematic thinking, and find it revealing, not worthy of respect, maybe even insulting. It is Little People that think like this, with Little Views.
I made it two minutes. It just wasn't funny, so what's the point?
he does not have the heft!
I've enjoyed your clear-eyed defense of Israel, and accurate condemnation of Hamas. It has made me rethink my opinion of you to a large extent. I wish you would look a bit more closely at some of your own biases. We all have them.
I hear you man, (and Drago) and am happy to agree with conservatives on the issue that matters more than any of the others: The supreme importance of civilization and how it’s much more worth defending in the West than anywhere else. Every other issue is secondary to that in my book. So I’m happy to re-evaluate Trump on those issues, where he stands on immigration and even the 2nd amendment, which I think promotes a more “polite” assimilation than the intolerable rabble that exists in Britain and elsewhere. I’m happy to recognize that the idiocy of the “woke” progressive mob is a danger to national and international security. Never take moral lessons from people with that much self-loathing or weakness and never take lessons in defense from anyone who would never lift a finger in their own defense, let alone anyone else’s.
OTOH I do think that Trump’s impulsiveness and self-aggrandizement does make leadership here and abroad more unstable. I like the way he killed Suleimani and talked about how he “died like a dog.” He called out Jen Bush in the 2016 elections about how he was a real (sarcastically) “tough guy.” It was funny and true.
But the less stable parts of his personality, which are legion, are part of what I retreat from. It’s good to have people in charge who can call real dangers out and not worry more about their own reputation. OTOH when he does react completely out of perceived “reputational insult” I think it does more harm than good and reminds me of what the West is fighting against.
Of course, I could be wrong. But that’s kind of where I stand now.
Cheers -
A long time ago SNL had Joe Cocker on and John Belushi stood next to him and did a near perfect impersonation.
If Lorne Michaels was still edgy he could probably persuade Trump to come on the show. Though his modern day cast would probably disown him for it.
Wow. That is an excellent impression, and it does lean toward make Trump endearing.
hmmm... okay its Choudhary
Not nearly as funny as the OG. But not portrayed as a tyrant, interesting.
I barely got a minute into the video. Let me say something NOT about Trump.
SNL has used women (biologically, I assume) for secondary characters over the years. Why, if they ever want a career beyond SNL, are they all shrieking, over acting harridans?
One supposes that is the entirety of what they think of less-than-100%-progressive women.
I was struck by how mild the jabs at Trump were. I sense a growing acceptance of a Trump second term … perhaps more resignation than acceptance but still.
4:40+ - is the leftist inside joke.
The left want old people to go away and drop dead.
chi com deadly viruses...all the way, baby.
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