Saturday Night Live first aired nearly 40 years ago. I was a 20-something way back then and the
show was hilarious.
With talent like Gilda Radner,
Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd, The Not Ready For Prime Time Players parodied
politics and culture with their edgy skits.
In part because I matured over
the years, and because the show became politically charged, SNL was no longer
funny and I stopped watching it. I still
don’t. I don’t have that kind of time to
waste.
Many have credited the show with
having an effect on the 2008 election, known as the "SNL Effect".
After years of being silent about
The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer, SNL has finally begun mocking he who must not be mocked.
Last Saturday, SNL skewered TWMDCO’s shameful behavior
during the memorial service for Nelson Mandela and also took aim at a fake
sign language interpreter. The Mandela memorial was the biggest state funeral since Winston Churchill’s 32 years
earlier.
When I saw the Saturday Night Live skit with Kenan Thompson portraying the fake interpreter
flailing behind Jay Pharoah who was playing the part of POTUS, I busted a gut.
It is impossible to respect this president. He has become a laughingstock around the
globe. Its high time SNL jumped in. Mocking The World’s Most Dangerous Community
Organizer is not committing sacrilege. Of
course, this thin-skinned president may imperil their jobs for having done so.
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