I don't watch the show, but from my understanding of their famous skit about Obama and Clinton, the real object of the piece was neither of them but was aimed at the fawning of the media over Obama.

Does anyone know of ANY late night show, or any famous comedian, doing anything about Obama in such nasty, negative, disrespectful way that they do this routinely about McCain and Palin?

The sheer cumulative weight of this constant barrage of slander, slamming, and sliming by ever sector of the media and entertainment has got to have an impact on this race. In my opinion, if there had been anything like even handed coverage, Palin/McCain would be ahead by 40 points now. 

Al, when are you going to get it?

You Are Not Good Enough,  You Are Not Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me Don't Like You!

I stopped watching SNL many years ago because, like Leno and Letterman, their humor is for 20-something adolescents who haven’t reached puberty and the age of common sense and rational thought, and consider Howard Stern intellectually superior the Thomas Aquinas.

Franken seems to have forgetten that the first element of humor is that it has some truth to it. Obama's policies do go overboard and this skit pointed out this fact. It was funny not because of the parody of McCain but because it again exposes the idiocy of Obama's policies.

The skit could have easily been turned around to be about Obama approving messages, but that would have drawn attention to his inexperience. No, SNL rarely touches Obama.

However, they did do a skit about New York Times reporters being too effete to go to Alaska. While it wasn't funny, at least they poked fun at the out-of-touch NYT.

Unfortunately, SNL hasn't been consistently funny in many years. They should really shut the program down.

I just know in my heart that after Al Franken is elected to the august US Senate, he will become a deliberative examiner of the nation's problems and work for non-partisan solutions.

OK, guys, I know where I can put my heart.

Under FEC regulations, don't all these skits have to be declared as "in-kind" contributions to Obama?

Sen. Norm Coleman in Minnesota is mopping the floor with Franken and where Franken should be investing his time. Coleman is running an ad with Franken using more foul language than Hillary Clinton.

I saw Franken's work and it was not amusing. Usually Hammond does a great mimic but he looked nothing like McCain.

It is though wonderful news that Franken has tossed in the towel in Minnesota and is looking to move back to New York with a job at SNL, Smearin n' Liberal.

PS: Why is it with Bill Clinton a known rapist was never once outed in a SNL skit about sexing Chelsea and yet SNL was saying that about the Gov. and her family?

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Who cares?  SNL lost any relevance a generation ago.  It is painful to watch these days.  Every time I try to give it a few minutes, I end up shaking my head and changing the channel.  MadTV is pretty good if it is still on. Al Franken is just another of the un-funny "comedians" of the left like Jeneane Garofalo, that idiot tool Robin Williams and Bill Maher.

Jeff Lebowski

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I saw that skit and thought it was very funny.

That was as funny as a accident.I see SNL still is humorless.Glad I dont watch that junk.Maybe Lorene Michaels should do a skit on his love of barnyard animals.That was a joke.Maybe.

Just a note.This is on SNL on Palin incest.Someone can explain what is suppose to be funny about this.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=75852 

I was watching this skit last night, thinking there was nothing funny about it. Even the live audience didn't react much. Then I learn Al Franken was the brains behind the skit, and the fact that it wasn't funny made all-the-more sense. This moron is the potentially the best that Minnesota can offer? At least that's a joke!

this guy wasnt funny when he was on SNL but then again those who thought he was are still watching it. How can Minn. even suggest that they want him as a Senator?  I thought they were out of there minds when they elected Jesse the bod Ventura as Gov.

What I want to know is why is it so warm and what is this basket Iam in?

Guns and Violence are not the answer but they are one solution to the problem== SARG

When a commentator, editor, writer, or journalist produces this stuff, it's free speech, i'm ok with it.

 When an active candidate writes something, and a media outlet runs it (or produces it), isn't that political campaigning/advertising?

 Shouldn't NBC (and the NYT, when they did the O-ditorial) either charge for the advertising or consider it campaign financing?

Once upon a time, like, say around 1991 or so (and times previous), SNL was extremely funny and a breeding/proving ground for countless comedians, many of whom made it big. 

The last time I saw an entire SNL...maybe 1995 or 1996...it spent a ton of time in a self-congratulatory mode, and being extremely unfunny.  And that could be the problem.  It is no longer a show, it is an institution, and as such, the powers that be behind SNL feel that all it needs to do is to self-congratulate itself for its glorious past, throw up whatever they want on the screen, and the crowds will come. 

The plug should have been pulled on this program long ago, which is a shame.  Back at the peak of its freshness and creative powers it was utterly hilarious and my entire family would stay up late on Saturday nights watching it. 

Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief.  Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.

Twenty years ago I remember how hilarious the skits were making fun of both parties. Dana Carvey was Bush Sr. and Jon Lovitz as Mike Dukakis. They just had a much more talented cast back then. It hasn't been worth watching in years now.

Noel Sheppard: "But allowing one candidate to assist in the creation of a skit
attacking another goes way beyond the pale..."

Why is it "beyond the pale", let alone "way beyond the pale"?  

If SNL aired a sketch about his opponent, Coleman, that Franken contributed to, w/o  allowing Coleman the same opportunity, that wouldn't be right. But the fact that the writer consulted Franken on a sketch that clearly had no electioneering or direct self serving advertising for Franken is "No big whup".

If NBC's allowing SNL to get help in writing comedy from a 15 yr veteren writer w/SNL and now Senatorial candidate is "way beyond the pale" then any candidate appearing on any program- news, current affairs, commentary, entertainment, or other, should be down right illegal.  I do mean any candidate as opposed to many NBs who support such laws re: dems/liberals. Most of the other NBs just feel any such media appearance by, or any discussion of liberal/Dem candidates (that doesn't attack Dems/liberals) is proof of ubiquitous liberal/Dem bias. "IT'S EVERYWHERE, IN EVERYTHING!" from everyone who uses the word "progress (short for progressive, short for commie-pinko) to the boxes of cereal they read in the morning.

NB should serve as a casebook example how hateful, ridiculous, ignorant, irrational, and just plain crazy people can get when they become obsessed and bitter about the fact there are Americans who disagree with them politically. If it doesn't apply to you, don't take it personally. Remember, I wrote "If it doesn't apply to you... " not "If you THINK it doesn't apply to you."

Seriously Noel, Why?!