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Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd ... back when SNL was funny

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Headlines

Andrew Yang stands by comedian after SNL firing for racist jokes

Iran’s warning to Saudi Arabia about all-out war is ‘ridiculous,’ Saudi’s Al-Jubeir says

Trump pressed Ukraine to investigate Biden’s son ... Campaign rocked

Nolte: Climate ‘experts’ are 0-41 with their Doomsday predictions

Facebook announces tens of thousands of app suspensions

Pentagon will deploy US forces to Middle East after Saudi Arabia oil facilities attack

Social Security drawn outside USA jumps 40% ...

Kahn’s London: Virtue-signaling ‘car-free day’ to disrupt city

Advocacy group slams Ben Carson over reported slur of trans people

Zukerberg’s visit to DC tells lawmakers Facebook is finally taking then seriously

Judge: President must tape  testimony for trial over 2015 protest at Trump Tower ...

Tear gas, mass arrests as cops crack down on anti-Macron protests

The Death of Humor

Comedian Tim Conway died recently ... and apparently so has much humor in American life. Some of Conway’s famous skits on the Carol Burnett show were side-splittingly funny ... the dentist’s erroneous Novocain shots (see above), his Swedish executive’s dealing with a clueless secretary (played by Burnett). He and Harvey Korman (passed in 2008) wee always tear-bringing hilarious together.

This kind of broad humor has pretty much disappeared from the American entertainment scene. If it is not dead, it is certainly on life support. What often passes for comedy in late night TV and variety shows is nothing but political applause lines bashing the Right. Kinda sad ...

And, ironically, this lack of laughs is occurring in a target-rich environment. Think of what could be panned —  “safe spaces,” “white privelege” (actually Dave Chappelle did a clever treatment of this subject ... but quite a while ago), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, un-free speech, the Green New Deal, the snowflake generation, the Mueller Russian hoax, diversity/inclusion hypocrisy, DNA testing, etc. I did offer a possible funny treatment of this last subject once on this blog ... see: DNA Test. No?

Sometimes it feels that even President Trump is more jocular than Saturday Night Live’s lame skits

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which ones from Drudge?

Trump careens off script on Russia after Putin meeting

John Podesta met with Fusion GPS after Trump dossier was published

'SNL' paints Dems as out of touch, elderly losers ...

Trump trolls Kim, 'I would never call him short and fat'

London mayor: I'll show Donald Trump my city's 'respect' for diverse faiths

WSJ editorial: Bannon may be rooting for Republicans to lose the Senate

40 [British] MPs signal No Confidence in [Prime Minister] May ...

Report: Alabama voters hold Washington Post, not Roy Moore 'in contempt'

As lenders targeted veterans with risky mortgages, VA failed to act

Bill Maher: 'It doesn't matter if Democrat primaries were rigged'

NASA to test 'space lasers' with latest launch ...

Sisi: Islamic State collapse in Syria, Iraq could cause flow of jihadis into Egypt

The Death of Humor

No way guys. I understand that the old man who lives there uses dead children to score points with his base.

The pallbearers are Jimmy Kimmel, the New Yorker magazine editors, Stephen Colbert, and the SNL"comedy" writers ...

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Politicos?

ISIS fighters surrender en masse ...

Trump: Tillerson could be 'a little bit tougher'

SNL mocks everyone -- but remains silent on Harvey Weinstein

Hurricane Nate hits U.S. Gulf Coast as it leaves more than 30 dead

Kim 'to test missile capable of hitting US west coast' ...

Shock [NFL] poll: from +54 to -5 in one month! ...

Pervert: Fox News reporter claims Harvey Weinstein masturbated in front of her

Ttump cites FCC equal time rule in 'unfunny' late night comedians

1.34 million officials have been punished for corruption since 2013, Chinese watchdog says

NYPD guard [Columbus] statue around the clock ...

11 injures, one arrested after car rams pedestrians outside Natural History Museum, London

Trump on North Korea: 'Only one thing will work'

White nationalists -- deemed neo-Nazi cowards -- return to Charlottesville for torch-lit rally

Thousands demand Putin quit as birthday protests turn violent ...

DACA renewals drop 21%

Silly Season

President Trump has said and tweeted some things that rub many people the wrong way. In fact I strongly suspect that Trump secretly relishes tweaking his detractors. And this tactic very often works. Liberals, progressives, much of the media, even many squishes in the establishment ,,, and their fellow travelers ... are tying themselves in granny knots to show their contempt for our newly elected president. It does seem that one is not allowed to go half-way in exhibiting one's "resistance" to Trump.

So we have a D-list comedian, Kathy Griffen, pretending to cut off Trump's bloody head, late-night TV and SNL sapping the imaginations of their writers trying to smear with innuendo and even slander Trump. We are even taken aback by Stephen Colbert saying that Trump is Putin's cock holster (implying fellatio). The list goes on and on exhaustively. Now we see the New York City Public Theater putting on Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in which Caesar is dressed as Trump and is stabbed to the cheers of the partisan crowd (described in the above paragraph) ... see: Daily Wire Story

This Trump "resistance" has become so commonplace, sophomoric, banal and even sinister that we are clearly entering a silly season. Liberals are straining at the yoke to find new ways of insulting Trump ... made even more frustratingly inane by the fact that these intended insults seem to roll right off of our president's back. As a result of this overdoing of this Trump Derangement Syndrome, those on the left are in danger of becoming parodies of themselves ... kinda like a skit out of Monty Python ... if they haven't crossed this threshold already.

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Russian ambassador had lots of meetings with Clinton campaign

Iran pushing for deal with Assad regime to build naval base in Syria

Kasich: 'Political parties are disintergrating'

Official: Trump open to tweaking healthcare bill

Trump's budget plan expected to include historic cuts

Europe's aim: Sway, not provoke Trump on climate

SNL, Scarlett Johansson: Ivanka [Trump] a traitor to women

USA deploys attack drones to SKorea ...

House investigators on a Trump-Russia collusion course

WaPo, NYT: Trump hates us because he wants our approval

Snoop Dogg 'assinates Trump' in latest rap video ...

ACLU launches nationwide training on resistance

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

100 California companies interested in building Trump border wall ...

Ichan's ethanol push fuels ethics storm

Second explosion rocks Sweden in 24 hours, suspected bomb

Nancy Pelosi: We have a right to know what is in the healthcare bill before we pass it

Spicer channels 'SNL' character: 'Don't make me make this podium move'

Trump's Mar-a-Lago is haven -- for spies

Melania Trump begins to embrace new role as first lady ...

France tries to stop immigrants by enforcing French at building sites

Foreigners who overstay visas outnumber those who cross border illegally ...

Trump administration fires [U.S. Attorney] Preet Bharara

Exclusive: Sarah Palin on Paul Ryan's Rino-Care -- 'Globaloney'

Teaparty activists look to Trump to clean up Ryan's Obamacare 2.0

The Resistance

We are living in interesting times wherein there is a strident and seemingly widespread resistance to our current Trump administration ... unfortunately even some of it from within the administration itself ... as witnessed by the continued embarrassing security leaks. The energy in this resistance over-states its actual support as much of Middle America seems to understand the time-worn dynamic of how those on the left ... much of the print media, many entertainers, some judges, SNL, paid agitators, prog politicians, cable TV talking heads, even some foreign leaders ... are over-reacting to a few greenhorn missteps by the Trump posse.

Many on the left ... Meryl Streep, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Rosie O'Donnell, Chuck Schumer, Lena Dunham, Mark Cuban, Elizabeth Warren, etc. ... are all elbowing each other out of the headlines ... fishing to be first in the public's eye with even more outrageous Trump and Company smears.

And John Hinderaker, like always, has it pretty much right in his Powerline Blog diagnosis of the double teaming that SNL and the AP perform almost every weekend since Trump was inaugurated. Their purpose has clearly expanded well beyond humor to delegitimizing our current administration ... see: Powerline Blog. This is verification of the extent and vigor of the resistance I am noting above. Somehow, I think that these naysayers will eventually tire of concocting their innuendo and fake news and Trump will prevail ... just like he did in the general election. He will "punch through" this picket line of pikers.

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

72 terrorists came from countries under [Trump's] travel ban

NFL players heed pro-Palestinian call to boycott Israel trip

Court ruling that Feds owe Obamacare insurer could put government on hook for billions

Venezuela now leads requests for asylum ...

AZ sheriffs to help Trump with border security

Laura Ingraham; Left hopes for a 'powder keg' moment

SNL hits Trump again, and again, and again with hint of exhaustion

Thousands march in Mexico against Trump

California Governor Jerry Brown asks president Trump for help

[Jim] Webb: There is a 'campaign' to personally discredit POTUS

Grammys producer encourages artists to get political during ceremony

Sweden builds camel park to help integrate migrants

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

UN demands U.S. pay reparations to blacks

40 days: Clinton 'panic mode' over black voters

Acne sufferers live longer

Clinton [Holt] wrong: Supreme Court says 'stop and frisk' Constitutional

Planned Parenthood will now offer transgender hormone therapy

Netanyahu booed at 'Hamilton' performance

Khan of Londonstan to defy Brexit, offer visas to migrants

[Seattle] Mall shooter illegally voted in 3 elections

NFL ratings continue to plunge in third week of Anthem protests

Shock poll: Only one in three voters think Hillary healthy enough to be president

Obama administration official: 'We don't screen immigrants for radical views'

Watch: Alec Baldwin to play Trump on 'SNL'

Black List

Victoria Jackson, the six-year veteran of Saturday Night Live (SNL) ... you know, the one who used to walk on her hands ... was the only former cast member banished to the overflow room during the SNL 40th anniversary show earlier this week. Why? Apparently her political views did not jibe with the producer of this iconic show, Lorne Michaels ... see: Hollywood Reporter Article.

Does anyone remember the Hollywood Black List of the 1950's? Apparently not ...

Fun in the Sun

President Obama is on top of things. Despite the Ukraine being squeezed to death by the Russian bear, serious delays in Syria destroying its chemical-weapon stockpiles, and 239 Malaysian airline passengers apparently being blown to smithereens by terrorists, he is deeply involved. He has called Vladimir Putin of Russia two times for long conversations. How do we know this? Because we see pictures of him on the telephone. And he is also talking to many world leaders about these many crises. How do we know this? His administration says so in a brief talking point … see: The Hill Story. 

Not to mention his plethora of serious domestic issues: the Obamacare sigh-up deadline rapidly approaching, the President’s budget proposal being dead-on-arrival in Congress, the administration’s gutting of our military, little or no White House attention to tax reform, our continued national economic lethargy, etc.  Is Obama concerned with all these domestic failings? It must be so … for there is no wringing of hands on the nightly news.

So all must be roses … for our President is hitting the links once again in Key Largo in sunny south Florida.  This time his playing partners are a former basketball great, Valerie Jarrett’s cousin, and a former football star. Why isn’t he in the White House Situation Room with his key advisers mapping out administration actions to all these issues?  Beats me. I guess fun in the sun trumps the serious business of governing … particularly after all that nasty cold weather in Washington.

Yes, President Obama is on vacation again … just two months after an extended three week stint in Hawaii.  In fact, he is on vacation so often that he hardly has time for all his many Democrat fund-raising trips. Do the U.S. ever-alert media make a point of highlighting these derelictions of duty (see: AWOL)? Do we ever hear a tsk-tsk from his many cable-news sycophants? Does Saturday Night Live run stinging parodies about his lack of focus on world and domestic events?  Does an arm-waving Jon Stewart on the Daily Show mock this inattention?  Get serious!  It’s a wonder that we even know he is playing golf in Florida.

And I do ponder what message this sends to Putin?

Justin Time

On Saturday Night Live, Justin Bieber e-mailed a picture of his penis to Hillary Clinton ... see: Newsbusters Story.

Now, isn't that special?

Saturday Night Dead

Lorne Michaels's Saturday night "comedy" show (Saturday Night Live or SNL) has had quite an impact on Presidential elections.  Effectively it killed Gerald Ford's prospects in 1977 when Chevy Chase continually depected him as a clumsy, bumbling fool.  (Side note: my wife worked part-time at NBC during this period and it was generally understood that Chevy Chase was an arrogant a-hole.)  Then, in the 2008 election, Tina Fey went a long way in destroying John McCain's campaign with her depiction of Sarah Palin as a provincial boob (excuse the expression) with "I can see Russia from my front porch."  (Many voters actually believed that the Alaskan Rogue Elephant had said that ... she hadn't.)

Now, that Mitt Romney seems to have wrapped up the Republican nomination, can we now expect that lefty hatchetman, Mr. Michaels, to try once again to enter the voting booths across the country in November and pull the levers by proxy for The Barry?  The answer is, of course.  The real question is, how will he do this?  My prediction is that it will be by either pointing out Mitt's seeming stiffness, his putting his dog's crate on the roof of his car, or his "ruthlessness" as a 1%-er while running Bain capital.  Maybe ... and probably ... all three ... possibly even some others too.  Also expect the "comedy" writers on The Late Show, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report to do much of the same ... often with a sly vengence.

Wouldn't it be great if somehow Dave Letterman, Lorne Michaels, Stephen Colbert, and Jon Stewart could also be continuously and savagely rediculed on network and cable television?  Unfortunately, it will only happen in my dreams ...