If a comedian wants to go political, that is fine, there is an audience for that. But the audience at a Adam Sandler show is not there to hear political jokes. He totally misread the room.
Sandler in Des Moines tonight
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If a comedian wants to go political, that is fine, there is an audience for that. But the audience at a Adam Sandler show is not there to hear political jokes. He totally misread the room.
"The show I don't watch isn't funny"
It works if you're making fun of everyone. Bill Burr pulls it off pretty well. It doesn't work if you're whole show picks on one side. You lose half your audience.
Anymore? When was politics NOT part of SNL?
I don't think SNL is anywhere close to as funny as it was 20-30 years ago, but even in what I consider it's hey day, it was pretty political. The difference was that the average American was more blasé in their personal political and emotional attachment.
We enjoyed the show last night. My group started laughing when Ron Schneider was announced and coming on as I was so hoping he wouldn't be there. Obviously Rob did not go over well with the crowd.
I was hoping/assuming we'd get some sort of Thanksgiving song since it is next week but no luck.
Still a darn good show!
I was hoping/assuming we'd get some sort of Thanksgiving song since it is next week but no luck.
Still a darn good show!
SNL just isn't the destination for comedians that it used to be IMO. Modern media etc. have made it so much easier to get exposure outside of the Second City to SNL pipeline.
Spade does shows and podcasts with Dana Carvey. I think their podcast is actually pretty up there in terms of downloads, if you’re an SNL fan it’s kind of like the SNL Bible.
The early episodes are a little rough because Dana got overly excited and repeated himself but it gets better and lately if they have a great guest it’s fantastic. Their Arnold Swchartzeneger (sp?) episode was great recently.
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He and Jim breweer are pretty much just grievance and cancel culture comics now. Which makes sense since they weren't ever really funny but were in the right place at the right time friend wise.
Rob is great as the bell hop in Home Alone 2.
"scamdemic" was literally one of the first words out of his mouth. At least make it funny, it was more or less him b*tching.
I saw Ron White with my folks at CY Stephens and he did a good job of this, whether or not I agreed with his politics.
I’m more of a sketch comedy fan and the really good political sketch comedy most don’t even realize is political or satire. Portlandia fantastically skewered liberal hipsters for a full 8 seasons and most of its viewers laughed at themselves watching it (it was basically 8 years of mocking my old liberal hipster chicago neighborhood and I loved it). People on the far opposite political extreme mostly didn’t even realize there was a long running award winning series making fun of these types. The rare times they did mock the political right it was so subtle I struggle to come up with an example. Probably what made it unique (and niche) was the relentless satire without ever getting that mean.
Chapelle and Key & Peele had a ton of political/racial humor that people just saw as humor, and even Chapelle skits like “black bush” are so well done I think 99% of people would still laugh their ace off if they watched now for the first time years later. SNL achieves it sometimes, other times it’s just blatant political commentary, but as the nearly longest running show in history you can’t say anything SNL as a blanket statement. South Park has consistently been a show/creators that actually roasts the whole spectrum but people only noticed it the past few years because of how covid politicized us further.
It’s been almost 4 years and people all over the spectrum want to just move on.
This is exactly right. You have a way better chance of becoming famous through TikTok than you do being on SNL. Some of the biggest comedians out there are guys like Matt Rife, Gillis, Theo Von, etc. I couldn't name a single person who has joined SNL in the last 5 years.
With Big 12 after dark it'll be tough for me to even think about SNL.
Che and Jost reading jokes written by the other is some of my favorite stuff.
