Please add my bravo to Jason Sudeikis' spot-on impersonation of Glenn Beck.  I also thought that Will Forte's impersonation of Brit Hume was pretty solid.

                  ~~save your tea, dump congress~~

Ouch!
Alas, this show has become ultralame, but Kristin Wiig is consistently funny amongst a cadre of unfunny people .

I fully expect Glenn Beck to fact check this skit.

Granted it wasn't the best SNL skit, but, of late they've poked fun at everyone. And in fair game Fox is just as good to spoof as any. 

Well done comics! Even if it was on a network that is more interested in pushing $10 lightbulbs and "green" technologies for which they hold the patents. CHA-CHING! 

Instead of lampooning the elephant in the room, they lampoon the flea on the elephant. So, this is what SNL has come to. I remember when we used to discuss the "bad years" of SNL. Now, they're all bad. 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

This very unfunny skit again proved Rush's maxim that good comedy has to be based on truth.

While Wiig's impression of was amusing, the rest of the jokes fell flat because there was little truth behind them.

They played Juan Williams and Shep Smith as conservatives when they are not, and Beck wasn't a part of the election night coverage. In fact, he hasn't been on Fox News since before the election due to his appendicitis. But hey! Sudeikis can do a passable impression, so let's somehow work Beck into the mix!

Joe Trippi was a commentator on election night, and he pretty much got equal time during his segments in order to make his points.

Except for Tina Fey's impressions of Sarah Palin and the skit about Joe Wilson shouting "You lie" as a takeoff on the old "pencil drop" prank from grades chool (where Wilson doesn't get the message that the rest of the group called it off while he was in the bathroom,) SNL has shown again and again this year that they simply don't get conservatives, and therefore are awful at basing humor about them.

Last night's skit would have been funnier had they had "Shep" been more dejected when reporting Virginia and New Jersey results, then happy when announcing NY-23, and something similar could have been done with Juan and Trippi (nearly suicidal regarding VA and NJ, for example).

Brit's a serious news guy, but I remember him and Juan going at it during the panel segments of Fox News Sunday a few years back. Something probably could have been done along those lines.

Also, after seeing how tall and slender Taylor Swift actually is, they should have figured out a way to incorporate an Ann Coulter character. Give her some snarky, funny lines. Then again, IIRC, Wiig's already impersonated her in other skits, they might not have wanted to encroach on her turf.

The Obama skit several weeks back about failing to meet campaign promises was funny because there had been recent articles from the left going after his inability to complete those promises. 

I mentioned Tina Fey's impression of Sarah Palin earlier as and example of doing it right. She gets the voice and mannerisms, then takes true things about Gov Palin and exaggerates them just enough to make them funny. For example, Sarah truthfully said that from certain parts of Alaska, one can see Russia (if only an outer island or the coast,) which make's Fey's line that "I can see Russia from my house!" a  funny exaggeration of the truth.

As another example, look at Alec Baldwin's conservative character, Jack, on "30 Rock". I loathe Baldwin's politics, but I love the way he plays Jack, and to me, a many of the lines he's given tweak conservatives with just the right ring of truth that, while I wouldn't agree with them, make them funny.

SNL has lately become completely unwatchable.  I could care less about a liberal slant... I just expect that it should be... FUNNY!  Which it isn't.. .and hasn't been in years.  Half the sketches don't even make sense and just have some weird character doing some annoying thing which the celebrity guest then tries to impersonate.  Pathetic...  

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Chevy's Ford - Worst "impression" ever (Chevy didn't even try the voice,) but  few golf balls hit into the crowd and a fall on the stairs of Air Force one gave Chevy all he needed to work with to make this a classic SNL favorite.

Ackroyd's Carter -  Dan got the voice and mannerisms right, and was able to play on Carter's policy's and foibles to make this one work

Hartman's Reagan - Probably my favorite, mainly because he got the voice and mannerisms down so well, and the makeup was good. My favorite sketch was  "Ronald Reagan: Mastermind", where Hartman plays him alternately as the soft spoken nice guy the public saw, and the hard-nose, high-energy "brains" behind every White House action. This sketch was made all the better, when after his death, biographies and his diaries made it clear that he was closer to the "Mastermind" version than most people knew.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4174/saturday-night-live-president-reagan-mast...

Carvey's GHW Bush - Great impression! Took Bush's "Read my lips", "Operation Desert Storm", "Not gonna do it" and "Wouldn't be prudent" and made the character truly funny.

Hammond's Clinton -- Again, a great impression that utilized Clinton's mannerisms (lip biting and womanizing,) along with his love of junk food, to make the character truly memorable. And now that Hammond's more or less off the show, they still bring him back to do Clinton.

Ferrell's Bush -- one of the worst IMO, mainly because it seemed to come out of hatred for Bush. Little effort to do the voice and mannerism, no makeup, and mostly poor writing. Frank Caliendo's version on "Mad TV" was much funnier.

Armisen's Obama -- started out pretty good during the 2008 debate parodies, but has since degenerated into a "going through the motions" performance. In addition, the writers are afraid (except for that one sketch mentioned earlier) to hit him.

Here are a couple of missed opportunities that I think could have been very funny:

1) After the buyout of GM, have "Obama" speaking to the American people from the door of the White House, then (using a green screen,) have him walk into the front grounds of the WH, which is covered with GM cars. He puts on a cowboy hat, and begins a Cal Worthington-like spiel about what it would take to put you into a car.

2) When folks began to notice Obama's use of the teleprompter, they could have put together a sketch where "Obama" finishes the last few lines of a speech, then leaves the stage to talk with some staff backstage. While talking, he continues to move his head side-to-side while his staff awkwardly shuffles back and forth to remain in his view.

Instead, we get a weak impression, and (while it was amusing the first time,) Duane Johnson as "The Rock Obama" throwing people out a window.

Bad...all of it really, really, bad.

'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart

Even the audience was waiting for the punchline.

I must say, I'm glad to have watched this.  SNL isn't pulling its weight for Obama.  They need some new writers.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

NewsBusters missed yet another opportunity to point out that Fox News indeed has a bias. I think the SNL crew showed the bias, but all you NB fans are choosing to ignore it.

Fox did indeed ignore the Hoffman loss. When I went to FoxNews.com last Wed. morning to see the outcome of NY23 there were no headlines about the race and the loss by a conservative. Fox buried the news in other stories more favorable to the conservative cause.

I think Fox should have run a headline story on the results of the NY23 race. That story was as big as NF and VA.

This also points out that NB itself has a bias. Or maybe it doesn't. I don't read every blog post here, but I haven't come across many instances where they point out conservative bias.

I gave up on FactCheck.org once their liberal bias started showing through. Until recently NB's conservative bias didn't show through. Now it does. Now it is time to hold NB to the same standards they are demanding of the MSM.