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"Now, JD, why don't you give us an update.... while you're talking, I'm just gonna sort of walk around in the background and look out windows...."

Says SNL Trump (at 2:00):

The windows bit references this real-life Trump incident:

৫৩টি মন্তব্য:

Achilles বলেছেন...

Oh look at the courage.

We know we have a NAZI in the white house because SNL is making fun of him again.

Funny how SNL acts like there is a dictator in the White House when a Democrat is there.

D.D. Driver বলেছেন...

The wandering off is pretty Biden-y.

Age limits now.

Kakistocracy বলেছেন...

So why do you think Trump stopped his meeting with oil company executives, who are seeking both US security guarantees and taxpayer-funded infrastructure subsidies for Venezuelan oil production, to talk to them about his ballroom where the price tag continues to go up for it monthly?

As soon as Trump started on about bringing down the price of oil, they started losing interest and there in lies the biggest blocker to his and their future investment plans.

Kakistocracy বলেছেন...

Trump bragging about his $400 million ballroom and getting up to admire the construction site as he meets with oil company executives looking to plunder Venezuela with money from US taxpayers basically sums up this entire administration perfectly.

Bob Boyd বলেছেন...

"We did a reverse Santa, we came down the chimney with a bag and took him away."

That's a a genuinely funny line, but dead silence from the audience.

William বলেছেন...

That was closer to "three minutes of hate" than to any kind of parody. I suppose that's what their audience wants, but the hate quotient is much higher than the humor content. They don't look for ways to be funny but rather for fresh and original ways to hate Trump and his Cabinet. South Park at least tries to be funny.

Ice Nine বলেছেন...

I watched that incident live. Hmm, It never occurred to me contemporaneously or later that there was anything wrong nor even particularly notable about it.

rehajm বলেছেন...

We’re being invited to equate this purposeful episode with dementia? I’ll pass. Looks to me like he was tweaking the fuckers who hate the ballroom…

Howard বলেছেন...

I forgot. Do we still like corporate welfare?

Bob Boyd বলেছেন...

As soon as Trump started on about bringing down the price of oil, they started losing interest and there in lies the biggest blocker to his and their future investment plans.

Do you realize how stupid that is? You don't, do you?

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

I think Trump was being disarming. It's a power move. Like the weave.

Howard বলেছেন...

It's not that Trump has dementia. It's that he thinks his target audience has dementia. That's why he's always doing the distractions to get your mind off the fact that the oil companies aren't doing his bidding and it keeps your mind off of that. Of course this Venezuelan oil thing is just another distraction to keep your mind off of Epstein files.

Peachy বলেছেন...

SNL rarely ever touched Biden(D) - their guy.
Screw SNL.

Howard বলেছেন...

Jesus, Althouse. That's not a power move, that's trying to change the conversation. He's losing that particular debate and he knows it so he's switching to another shiny object.

Lazarus বলেছেন...

The real Trump is funnier. So are a lot of online parodies. Having this impersonator and whoever writes his lines replaced by AI would be a blessing.

"Don't read this note out loud" -- Didn't Biden essentially do that on various occasions? Reading the stage directions off the teleprompter out loud. Accidentally letting us see the cards that told him what to say and who he was talking to.

Howard বলেছেন...

SNL isn't funny. Mrs. Scarlett Johansson does a terrible Hegseth. The no names doing Marco and JD are wallpaper. The Trump guy holds his own, making up for bad writing.

mikee বলেছেন...

The guy running the meeting letting the self-important executives know their unimportance compared to the guy running the meeting is a simple, old fashioned power move.

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

God that was so horrible. Bad comic acting and bad writing. And leftwing. The main problem is Trump is x10 funnier than the hack who impersonating him. And all comedy starts with the assumption that the audience is libtard and buys into every convential view of Trump and Republicans.

Go back and look at Will Ferrell's Bush to see how to satirze a Republican POTUS and be funny.

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

"Having this impersonator and whoever writes his lines replaced by AI would be a blessing."

Interesting. I thought the lines WERE written by AI.

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

We're over 10 years into "The Trump era" and SNL still can't satirize him and be funny. But then they had a wake after Trump got elected with Libtard comedians holding hands and crying on stage.

Howard বলেছেন...

You can't see actual power moves. You feel it later. This was weakness shrouded in the privilege of power.

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

Dana Carvey who's in semi-retirement, developed a funny Joe Biden. Did anyone else? Name all the slashing satire of biden on SNL. Name all the cutting edge comedy attacking Obama. I doubt you can come up with much. The attacks on Hillary/Clinton were much better.

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

Listening to SNL related podcasts and the question of "Wasn't SNL funnier back in xxxx?" is usually answered with "You just thought it was funnier because you were young then, and it got imprinted on your brain". Another podcaster came up with a answer I'd never heard that "It wasn't as good as you remember. You dont remember 90 percent of the show was crap".

You can understand the refusal. People in "The industry" don't want to admit the "new stuff" is crap and worse than it was before. Their living depends on people watching and buying "the new stuff". And old comediens don't like criticizing those in the spotlight for obvious reasons.

Wilbur বলেছেন...

I only made it through 3 minutes, not out of anger but rather a discontentment with how lame and unfunny it was.

I can appreciate a good parody of anyone; this is witless, banal and lacking any comic energy.

Is this the best SNL can do? I guess so.

Beasts of England বলেছেন...

The dude has Trump’s voice and inflection down cold - I closed my eyes and it sounded flawless. But, as the easiest target for parody in history, they sure came up short.

narciso বলেছেন...

he multitasks, kind of like the phil hartman reagan sketch

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

Nobody gets angry at a comedy show. Except for leftists who rage and cry when someone makes a joke they don't like. All the anger and rage is on the Left. I was re-reading the Al Franken posts on Althouse, and he was the sui generius (sic) libtard. He was known for his outrage and anger directed at Republicans and Conservatives, yet when he got Me-tooed he broke down and cried like a little girl. Tough guy (LOL).

ChrisC বলেছেন...

They haven't been funny for at least 30 years.

RCOCEAN II বলেছেন...

SNL should do more satire of "Cry-bullies", because its hilarious when those who dish it out find themselves having to "Take it". Usually with tears and lamatations. Whenever I want a laugh i read about the mass-killers in Stalin's politboro crying and moaning when the "The Great Leader" sent them to execution chamber.

narciso বলেছেন...

some of will (last names) skits were funny,

baghdadbob বলেছেন...

100% power move. Trump interrupted his meeting with oil execs and waxed lovingly about the BB Ballroom. They had to sit silently until he returned to THEIR agenda. At his choice of time.

Kirk Parker বলেছেন...

Speaking of Bush, anyone else here a fan of Frank J Fleming's "In My World" series on IMAO.us? Totally hilarious send up a W, Laura, Condi, "The Rumsfeld Strangler", and many more. (Frank J writes for the Babylon Bee now iirc)

JES বলেছেন...

I couldn't watch it for more than 30 seconds. We;ve been watching old David Letterman shows and they are actually funny. Great one liners. Dog tricks. What has happened to comedy?

narciso বলেছেন...

oh those were classic, thats why the Bee seems truthy, (the trick is the time machine)

Jaq বলেছেন...

Zerohedge says that investors are worried that if Trump gets clobbered in the mid-terms, that the economic good times will be over.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hartnett-trump-boom-has-led-new-world-bull-market-it-ends-if-happens

narciso বলেছেন...

well lets endeavor not to do that, shall we,

Ampersand বলেছেন...

We all exist in some sort of information ecology in which certain ideas and events have a prominence that pushes us to believe the things we need to believe in order to survive within that ecology. For SNL writers the central survival imperative is that Trump is bad in every possible way. That isn't conducive to lots of hilarity.

rehajm বলেছেন...

But then they had a wake after Trump got elected with Libtard comedians holding hands and crying on stage

I enjoyed that…

john mosby বলেছেন...

baghdadbob: "100% power move."

Yes, Trump lived thru LBJ. He's been thinking for the last 50-plus years: "how can I whip my dick out without, you know, literally whipping my dick out?" And he has lots of answers. CC, JSM

john mosby বলেছেন...

I did like SNL Trump's line about "My Cabinet of Curiosities - a collection of freaks and monsters from the mind of Guillermo Del Trumpo" before he introduced SNL Rubio, Vance, and Hegseth. That's another line that both sides can like. You better believe we're sending freaks and monsters against this country's enemies! Kind of like Gutfeld's pirate-ship analogy for the 47 Admin. CC, JSM

Not Illinois Resident বলেছেন...

There is a small-d democrat in the White House. The kinda Democrat we had during Clinton administration. Go thru the policies, one by one, Trump aligns more with Bill Clinton's former presidential administration policies than progressive-liberal-socialist-activist democrats do now.

Witness: Gabbard and RFK Jr.

john mosby বলেছেন...

Not IL: "There is a small-d democrat in the White House."

C'mon man - stop talking about Trump's wiener! CC, JSM

john mosby বলেছেন...

More seriously, Clinton banged the drum for GATT and NAFTA, and bringing the ChiComs into global trade. Trump is pushing back against 30 years of momentum from these. CC, JSM

Randomizer বলেছেন...

Trump is funnier than the SNL writers, and Vance embraces humor directed at him, so neither of those guys work well for SNL.

I liked the Hegseth bit. The gym-bro character gives them something to work with.

It's a shame they are so partisan, there is so much they could do with the Democrats, but can't.

RoseAnne বলেছেন...

I think the only way I would watch SNL again is if they brought surviving members of the original/previous cast back for a week to be the entire cast for the show. Despite the wrinkles and balding they couldn't do worse and possibly could do better.

Achilles বলেছেন...

Wilbur said...

I only made it through 3 minutes, not out of anger but rather a discontentment with how lame and unfunny it was.

I can appreciate a good parody of anyone; this is witless, banal and lacking any comic energy.

Is this the best SNL can do? I guess so.


SNL is stupid.

Kill Tony is actually funny.

Ann wouldn't want to watch Shane Gillis though.

And they make fun of Biden which is illegal.

Disparity of Cult বলেছেন...

Noem's accent was way off, a poor imitation of Fey's intentionally overdone take on Palin's accent.

The Hegseth bit had potential but theater kid resentment of the jocks took over.

chuck বলেছেন...

I came here to beat the dead horse, but decided that was silly. It's dead.

Marcus Bressler বলেছেন...

The people who still think SNL is cutting edge funny (or funny at all) are like the peasant crowds in "The Emperor's New Clothes"

Jim at বলেছেন...

C'mon man - stop talking about Trump's wiener!

Yeah! That's lonejustice's job.

Bunkypotatohead বলেছেন...

The writers at SNL are just lazy. There are dozens of things each week that could be lampooned, but every cold opening is Johnson playing Trump.

boatbuilder বলেছেন...

Has SNL done anything about the "Learing Center" or the "Adult Day Care" owners having their Lamborghinis towed?

Or the Tim Walz meltdown?

(Don't tell me--I know the answer).

boatbuilder বলেছেন...

They really think "J.D. Vance wears eye shadow" is a clever joke.
As a wise man once said: "Sad. Very Sad."

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