Happy Monday entertainment round-up: Oscars and SNL
Crazy lady walking! Oscar winner Elinor Burkett
I haven’t seen most of the movies that were nominated for Oscars, but still enjoyed the telecast last night, for the most part. On the list to see now: “The Hurt Locker” (first woman to win a directing Oscar, not bad at all… “Precisou”, which made Geoffrey Fletcher the first black Oscar screenplay winner for his adaptation of “Push” … “Up” (more statuettes than expected) and “Up in the Air” (two words: George Clooney.) Another first last night: Roger Ross Williams became the first African-American to win a documentary award for “Music by Prudence,” and his co-winner, producer Elinor Burkett became the rudest Oscar Oscar winner ever for her Kanye West/crazy lady moment interrupting his acceptance speech … Read more
In case you missed it: Al Gore brings the funny
Gore’s appearance on SNL was great. Here he is giving his “plan B” if his push for renewed attention to climate change doesn’t work: the upshot — arming trees with toy guns. Watch:
This guy is hilarious!
SNL skit tweaks the wrong Fox anchor
The skit this Saturday ripping Fox News would have been funnier had they not chosen the one Fox News man who really is fair and balanced — Shep Smith — to include in the skit. What — no Bret Baer impersonators available? Kristen Wiig was great as a ridiculously Botoxed Greta though, and the Glenn Beck was dead on. Watch:
If I’m Shepherd I’m asking for a recount.
For President Obama, all and nothing
SNL’s opening skit this weekend delighted right wingers who have been moping that the entertainment world refuses to go after President Obama, whom they see as a combination Marxist/Fascist/Socialist usurper who used ACORN to steal the last election (by like, 200 electoral votes, but who’s counting?) (By the way, the right wing stumper of the day has got to be from Newsweek’s Johnathan Meecham, who said this morning on “Morning Joe”: “it’s kind of hard to be a socialist and a fascist at the same time.” . Amen. And a tip of the hat will go to any right winger who can explain that quote to me in your own words without using Wikipedia. Spoiler alert: the answer will make your next tea party sign making tailgate much more complicated…) Back to SNL, which skewered the president, and without their realizing it (again) those same wingers, by making hash out of their contention that he has somehow steamrolled through the fields of capitalism, laying waste to the America they once knew. Instead, SNL portrayed Obama as having done a whoooole lot less than that. Watch:
Now to be fair, it hasn’t even been a year, and it’s going to take a hell of a lot longer than ten months to clean up the devastating mess left behind by our worst president ever, Mr. Bush, but the skit was funny, in that it made a fundamental point: those of you who think the president has done too much can’t have it both ways. At the same time, the White House should take to heart the underlying message of the satire: that the biggest danger to Barack Obama’s presidency may not be overreach. It might be timidity.
Is Palin being punk’d?
It's her party, now.
One sign of intelligence is to know, or at least have a sense of, when you’re being made fun of. Sarah Palin might want to add that saying to her Facebook/Twitter manifestos.
Sarah Palin is planning her first trip to Hong Kong, having accepted one of a over a thousand speaking invitations. She may have chosen poorly.
Business Insider reports that the request from brokerage firm CLSA was made “almost certainly as a practical joke.”
In the past, they’ve polled Asian fortune tellers for index targets, hired anime cartoonists to draw Japanese research, and generally love to push the boundaries between entertainment and analysis. They are a real research firm, it’s just that they love to sprinkle in some hilarity every now and then as a smart marketing gimmick.
Sarah Palin is this year’s big laugh for them.
Read on at the Huffpo (or catch the original article here.) And someone might want to contact SNL. Sarah the Incoherent mangling the English language in front of a bunch of investment fund managers and financial wizards in Hong Kong is gonna be worth forking over some fresh money to Tina Fey.
Meanwhile: Levi Johnston is still dishing! And he says Sister Sarah tried to pull an Angelina on him and Bristol (in which they played the part of the Third World birth parents…)
And if those disappointed Republican Women wanted Sarah to speak to them Orlando, they should have done the obvious: offer her big, big bucks. Suckers.
UPDATE: According to a commenter at Business Insider, one of Sarah P’s nicknames in Alaska, given to her by her temporary constituents, was Bible Spice. Yep. I’m using that one.
In case you missed it: the complete SNL debate skit
Enjoy!
Hat tip to Queen Latifah, whose facial expressions were priceless!
Weekend Update: Tina Fey does the obligatory Sarah Palin
And yes, she looks damned near exactly like her…
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A quick note on SNL
MSNBC has been running the clips of “Saturday Night Live’s” skewering of Hillary Clinton this weekend, and once again, the show is being credited by the MSM with being on the cutting edge of political satire. Well, while I found this week’s opener to be both funny and on point, I’m having a hard time giving SNL much credit for “edge.” I mean, how much courage does it take to suck up to the Senator from your home state when she’s still viable, and then to kick her when she’s already clearly on the ground? It’s like kicking an unconscious guy that somebody else knocked out. SNL was conveniently on hiatus for at least the last three weeks — the crucial weeks during which the remaining air seeped out of Hillary’s campaign balloon. So after sitting out everything from the NC, Indiana skids to the race-baiting USA Today comments, SNL snarks that … surprise! … Hillary is losing ugly? Well knock me out with a bowling ball…
BTW, in other SNL news, Jimmy Fallon is moving up to the big boy chair, taking over the desk at “Late Night,” next year when Conan O’Brien gets the daddy seat: “The Tonight Show.” I watch none of them, but don’t go by me…
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Losing SNL
You may have read the accounts about the tendency of “Saturday Night Live” producers to be pro-Hillary, as evidenced by donations to her campaign, and several skits portraying Obama as either media pampered or freaked out and incompetent. The candidate herself seemed to enjoy a kinship with the SNL cast, even appearing on the show alongside Amy Poehler, the actress who portrays her. Any bias (which the show’s staffers vigorously denied,) could stem from the fact that the show originates from New York City — purportedly Hillary’s home base (if you’re not counting Scranton, Chappaqua, Arkansas, Illinois and Washington D.C.) Well for now, the debate is moot, because it appears that SNL has jumped way off the bandwagon (or the producers are trying to prove they’re really not HilBots…) This week’s opening skit, the first in a while since SNL has been conveniently in hiatus as the news cycle turned grim for Senator Clinton, was what you call and old fashioned skewering. Cliffs Notes version: “I’m Hillary Clinton; I’m a sore loser and my supporters are racists.” Watch:
I don’t think HRC approved that message.
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