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The lamest opening skit in SNL's 30 year history

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I'm speechless... I thought this was a comedy show?

 
Lame is a good word for it... like... wtf? I thought you are supposed to be a little more subtle than that... I get it, you like hillary and you want to feed the strawman of Donald Trump, but...

it's a comedy show...
 
Grim17 said:
I'm speechless... I thought this was a comedy show?

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Yeah I saw it, it was ridiculous. Everyone was praying it and I don't know why. I get the tribute to Leonard Cohen but not sure why they had Kate doing it dressed as Hillary. Of course it was a bad song to tribute him as he wanted people to covering it. It could have been a lot funnier if Kate (as Hillary) had covered "everybody knows" by Coen.
 
Funny died Nov.8th, now it is hilarious.:lamo
 
Grim17 said:
I'm speechless... I thought this was a comedy show?
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See below.

celticwar17 said:
Lame is a good word for it... like... wtf? I thought you are supposed to be a little more subtle than that... I get it, you like hillary and you want to feed the strawman of Donald Trump, but...

it's a comedy show...
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It's a political venue, masquerading as a comedy show.....always has been. It leans way Left, with no real pretense of being fair.

I stopped watching it years ago, I don't need to see anymore liberal brainwashing.

The Lefty lemmings....eat it up.
 
Wow.
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."
Apparently, whatever it is it's too strong for my tender, naive Canadian sensibilities.

edit- I'm probably not missing much. SNL has been a bit of a disappointment this election season. Though Alec Baldwin did look kinda funny under that wig.
 
bubbabgone said:
Yeah that was a misfire both as humor and sincerity.
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Honoring the death of a legendary musician by playing his most recognizable song was a nice gesture. If you disliked it, so be it. She did a fine performance.
 
backpacker said:
Honoring the death of a legendary musician by playing his most recognizable song was a nice gesture. If you disliked it, so be it. She did a fine performance.
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Yes. That was a nice gesture for the composer. Why'd they have the Hillary character do it?
 
backpacker said:
Honoring the death of a legendary musician by playing his most recognizable song was a nice gesture. If you disliked it, so be it. She did a fine performance.
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It might have been if that musician hadnt asked people to stop covering that song because it was done too much. Theres nothing like tribute to a guy by ignoring what he would have wanted.
 
MickeyW said:
See below.



It's a political venue, masquerading as a comedy show.....always has been. It leans way Left, with no real pretense of being fair.

I stopped watching it years ago, I don't need to see anymore liberal brainwashing.

The Lefty lemmings....eat it up.
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Yeah, no one ever does comedy about politics.
 
Grim17 said:
I'm speechless... I thought this was a comedy show?

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I actually thought it was nice. A tribute to the artist and to Hillary's loss. It wasn't snarky - it was honest. Although, even though I like Trump, I still thought much of what they did this season was really good. Except a couple of weeks ago, their opening skit was just a bit over the top. It was just awkward at times with all that they tried to say about Trump. Especially knowing that most of it was false.
 
Grand Mal said:
Wow.
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."
Apparently, whatever it is it's too strong for my tender, naive Canadian sensibilities.

edit- I'm probably not missing much. SNL has been a bit of a disappointment this election season. Though Alec Baldwin did look kinda funny under that wig.
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That's weird. I'm pretty sure Leonard Cohen was Canadian.
 
Grim17 said:
I'm speechless... I thought this was a comedy show?

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It's a show mostly watched by liberals so they put in a short skit that celebrated a great musician that we lost and a 10 second message about an election that many people are having to accept.

I'm not sure why that would make you speechless. Me thinks your blowing this out of proportion.
 
backpacker said:
Honoring the death of a legendary musician by playing his most recognizable song was a nice gesture. If you disliked it, so be it. She did a fine performance.
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It was more than that.

Very fine, and a touching expression of the loss mixed with commitment that so many of us feel, and you can bet they feel at SNL.
 
Lutherf said:
That's weird. I'm pretty sure Leonard Cohen was Canadian.
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He was.

Must be a 'youtube' thing. I've never seen that message before.
 
bubbabgone said:
Yes. That was a nice gesture for the composer. Why'd they have the Hillary character do it?
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Perhaps because it is a bitter song and she would be the character who would be bitter so they were going for something a little subdued. Not sure. I am not Lorne Michaels.
 
JackA said:
It was more than that.

Very fine, and a touching expression of the loss mixed with commitment that so many of us feel, and you can bet they feel at SNL.
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Sure. I guess that is what they were going for. I did agree that it was a tad bit peculiar, but I wouldn't call it lame simply because her performance was true to the song.
 
Crovax said:
It might have been if that musician hadnt asked people to stop covering that song because it was done too much. Theres nothing like tribute to a guy by ignoring what he would have wanted.
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Prince pretty much let nobody do his music and the floodgates opened up. It was used quite a bit though in the media and in reality competition shows. I liked the Jeff Buckley version a little better than Cohen's, but that is a matter of preference. The song is an excellent piece of music.
 
Yeah...meh. Sad pandas...OK.

I guess the bigger question is what is Hillary going to keep fighting for? and what should the rabid leftists fight against?
 
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