Saturday Night Live took on Donald Trump’s Twitter account activities on Saturday and Alec Baldwin did a very skilful job as Russia’s President-elect, Donald Trump. The play was based on Trump’s apparent addictive use of Twitter, and before the show was over, Trump jumped on Twitter to tweet his disapproval.
“Just tried watching Saturday Night Live” Trump said, “- unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get any worse. Sad”
“Saturday Night Live” opened its latest show with election coverage from CNN’s “election center,” where “bona fide hunk” host Jake Tapper, played by cast member Beck Bennett, looked back at the “crazy week in politics.”
Highlights included the Super Tuesday press conference of GOP front-runner Donald Trump, played by Darrell Hammond.
“What a great, great night. I really am running the best campaign, aren’t I? The media is saying they haven’t seen anything like this, not since Germany in the 1930s,” Hammond says.
“I mean everyone loves me: racists, ugly racists, people who didn’t know they were racists.”
Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who awkwardly stood behind Trump during the news conference, is not spared.
“Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Please, sir, may I have another,” Bobby Moynihan, portraying Christie, says after being insulted.
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Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live last weekend because, well, no one else does Sarah Palin like she does. And as expected, Tina’s mannerism and speech patterns were spot on. But I was a little disappointed, because Tina’s speech itself was more understandable and made a lot more sense than the real deal, Sarah Palin.
If you are going to impersonate Palin, then what you say cannot make any sense, whatsoever. Like Fey said, “We’ve seen our own children targeted by the police for no reason other than they committed some crimes.” A clear reference to Palin’s son, Track, who was arrested for domestic abuse. “We turn on the news every morning and are shocked to see we’re not even on it, because we’ve been replaced by immigrants like Geraldo Rivera.”
And this. “They say Trump and his trumpeters are right-wingin’, bitter-clingin’, proud of clingers of our guns. But he can kick ISIS ass, because he commands fire.”
Wait a second. That sounds almost exactly like what the real deal Sarah Palin said this week when she endorsed Trump. In that case, forget what I said above. Tina Fay’s impression, as always, was on the money!
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The casts of Saturday Night Live reenacted some of the stories of Ben Carson from his teenage years. The stories came from Carson’s own writings, writings that have dominated the news over the last few weeks.
In the reenactment, we see a young Ben Carson getting so angry, so mad that he tried to kill a man with a knife only to see the man still standing, saved by his belt buckle. And the story about a young Ben Carson going after his mother with a hammer? Yea, that too was reenacted by the talented cast at SNL.
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The eloquent and moving tribute was simple, yet profound. It happened at the beginning of the show and came from cast-member, Cecily Strong.
“Paris is the City of Light,” she said, “and here in New York City, we know that light will never go out. Our love and support is with everyone there tonight. We stand with you.” She then said the same thing in French before issuing the usual, “And now, live from New York, it’s Saturday Night Live!”
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We stand with you, Paris. https://t.co/hqUX4oqWMj
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) November 15, 2015
So after it was all said and done, after all the protests and promises to stop watching SNL because of Donald Trump’s appearance, Donald Trump made his hosting appearance last night and was called a “racist” during the show.
Yes, the heckler was Larry David, the man who masterfully played Bernie Sanders on a previous episode of SNL, and although his heckling was most likely scripted and a part of the show, some who protested Trump’s appearance argued that Trump is in fact, a racist, especially after his various comments about Mexicans and Latinos.
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Larry David couldn’t miss this opportunity. #SNL https://t.co/CQ3y2BxUtK
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) November 8, 2015
There is a growing backlash to NBC and Saturday Night Live’s decision to allow Republican presidential candidate and accused “racist”, Donald Trump, to host this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live.
The petitions delivered to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, home of NBC and “Saturday Night Live,” marked the latest attempts to dissuade the network from allowing the Republican presidential hopeful to host the show, with the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda earlier asking that NBC reconsider the decision.
“There’s mounting evidence that Donald Trump’s racist demagoguery is resulting in real-world violence and physical and verbal intimidation,” Mushed Zaheed, deputy political director of Credo Action, one of the participating groups, said in a statement.
In advance of the show, NBC released promotional spots featuring Trump that included one in which he refers to a Republican opponent, Ben Carson, as “a complete and total loser.”
Among the growing pressure, entertainer John Leguizamo has vowed never to watch the program again if Trump is featured on Saturday’s show.
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Larry David was classic as Bernie Sanders. I couldn’t ask for anyone better. I pretty sure there is no one better. The hand movements, the mannerisms, the voice, Larry David had it. And being the man behind Seinfeld’s success, David followed that same Seinfeld method and talked about things that made no sense whatsoever, like when he explained why he should be president.
“Who do you want as president? One of these Washington insiders or a guy who has one pair of clean underwear that he dries on a radiator?”
Must see TV indeed!
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Donald Trump recently made his appearance and now it’s Hillary Clinton’s turn on Saturday Night Live! And a pretty good bartender she played, although she spent too much time staring at the cue cards. Oh, and she’s not a good singer… just saying! Obama could teach her a few notes.
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After experiencing a near death accident in which one of his friends was killed, Tracy Morgan is continuing the road back with an appearance on Saturday Night Live on October 17th.
Morgan’s limo was struck by a Walmart truck on the New Jersey Turnpike on June 7, 2014, killing comedian James McNair and critically injuring Morgan and three others. In early June, Morgan appeared on TV for the first time since the accident, telling the Today Show that he doesn’t remember the actual crash.
“When I got home, it really hit me,” he said. “Every day I would just watch the accident on YouTube. One day I saw [McNair’s] funeral on YouTube, and I lost it for about a week.”
Morgan, who suffered extensive physical and neurological injuries from the crash, sued Walmart and received an undisclosed settlement in May. The truck’s driver—who hadn’t slept in 28 hours at the time of the accident—faces charges of death by auto.
This was a very simple task for Saturday Night Live – a parody of Fox’s Fox and Friends. Why was it a simple task you asked? Because Fox and Friends itself is a parody and anyone wishing to make a joke out of the Fox show already had most of the material written. They just had to come up with the actors.
In this skit, the Fox and Friends characters were really actors from Saturday Night Live, unlike the real actors playing the role on Fox. Get it? Watch as the actors talk about Obamacare, President Obama and their interview Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I bet you can’t tell the difference between the real Fox and Friends actors and the pretend actors of SNL.
Three black comediennes will take the Saturday Night Live stage at some point today to fight for a cast member position opening up this January – and one of them is a noted critic of the show.
SNL creator Lorne Michaels decided to break tradition and hire new talent midseason after facing criticism that the sketch-comedy show lacked diversity in its sixth year without a black female cast member.
A source at the show revelealed to the New York Daily News that NBC Universal Diversity Scholarship winner Natasha Rothwell, stand-up comic Sasheer Zamata and sketch comic Kerry Coddett were the three women who made the cut for today’s auditions. All three women are alumnae of the Upright Citizens Brigade – an improv troupe founded by SNL alum Amy Poehler. They made the cut after performing in a showcase in New York on December 2.
