{"id":78916,"date":"2015-11-08T07:41:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T15:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78916"},"modified":"2015-11-08T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T15:48:00","slug":"trump-on-snl-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78916","title":{"rendered":"Trump on “SNL” Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* It was YUUGEEE. And surprisingly honest about race. Actually joking a lot about race. I haven\u2019t watched in years but this Trump one was pretty good. Or maybe I\u2019m such a Trump fan that I am easily amused.<\/p>\n

* Cast members seemed afraid to hug Trump at the end. Trump did well, though the show wasn\u2019t too funny, for the most part. Opening with Larry David was funny though.<\/p>\n

* Trump doesn\u2019t like to be touched.<\/p>\n

He sleeps 4 hours a night, he claims he hasn\u2019t cried since he was a baby and has stated he doesn\u2019t like to shake hands.<\/p>\n

I like that Trump doesn\u2019t want people hanging on him and hugging him.<\/p>\n

* I think SNL really dropped the ball, in that they had a chance to grab some more frequent viewership from people who were watching only for Trump, but they couldn\u2019t deliver a funny product. Some of the sketches were just really awful.<\/p>\n

There were a few mildly funny parts, and Trump was entertaining but really underutilized in my opinion, but overall there is just not a whole lot of talent putting together that show.<\/p>\n

Is just an overall lack of talent, or is it that it is near impossible to be politically correct and funny at the same time? A little of both, in my opinion.<\/p>\n

* He has never held public office or government employment of any kind. If he\u2019s elected, I\u2019m pretty sure he\u2019ll be the first such President. As far as I know, everyone from Washington to Obama had held some kind of political, legal or military position at some stage in their lives. If he becomes President, that fact would surely have huge symbolic significance, although of course it\u2019s the power conferred by his wealth that allowed him to bypass the usual route to the White House.<\/p>\n

* There were reports that Trump nixed some ideas so as not to alienate Iowans, but that doesn\u2019t seem a convincing explanation. Fox News\u2019s Greg Gutfeld suggested the writers underwrote the show as a protest.<\/p>\n

Some low-hanging fruit the show could have gone for and didn\u2019t:<\/p>\n

1) Had Trump play Jeb. The audience would have started laughing as soon as Trump walked out, and there\u2019s plenty of ways they could have run with that. How about Thanksgiving at his parents\u2019 house with W. there and everyone ripping on Jeb\u2019s lousy campaign? The heavyset white gal cast member could have played Jeb\u2019s wife, and all of her dialogue could have been in nonsense Spanish. Or what about a riff on Jeb\u2019s lame slogan \u201cJeb\u2019ll fix it\u201d. Set the skit in 2017, where Jeb, having flamed out of politics, is a handyman in overalls in Florida, and all of his customers mock him with his old slogan.<\/p>\n

2) Had Trump play General William Westmoreland tossing his car keys to one of the black male cast members playing a young Ben Carson. Then Carson tells all of his friends at the place where he\u2019s a teen parking valet that he was just offered a scholarship to West Point. One of the friends doubts Carson\u2019s claim, so he stabs him to death, then hijinks ensue when he tries to hide the body.<\/p>\n

3) Had Trump play himself at his Florida golf club mistaking a visiting Marco Rubio for a caddy or waiter.<\/p>\n

* The dancing segment was funny. There were other times where it seemed like the sketches were deliberately meant to hammer home the association between Trump and sleaziness. But, it\u2019s not like they slobbered all over Hillary and Bernie either. I\u2019d imagine the cast were vary weary about appearing cozy with Trump. Larry David has no idea the backlash he\u2019s about to get making light of those offering to pay to call Trump racist. Larry is very liberal but he may not understand just how batshit crazy pc activism has gotten.<\/p>\n

* Trump knows when he actually needs to be pc\u2026and the networks\u2019s producers & directors must tow the corporate line\u2026pc wins. I agree, it was boring. Nothing ventured, nothing gained night. Ho hum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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