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.
SNL mocks Beck, Obama appears on everything but Fox
Courtesy of HULU:
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.
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