Leslie Jones for empress of the universe, please!
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I think it has to be the other way around. Bannon is the mega white supremacist, and Trump has a weird obsession with Rosie.
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Or for even just for giving a woman who looked like Roseanne Barr a TV show. Honestly that one just hit me within the last couple of years when I was reading an interview with Chris Rock (that I think I linked to in the last month on a different issue):
In this sense, comedy’s really fair. It’s not like music, where you can hire Timbaland and he gives you a beat and a song, and even though you can’t sing it’s a hit. Comedy, especially stand-up comedy, it’s like: Who’s funny?
It’s the only thing that smacks Hollywood out of its inherent racism, sexism, anti-Semitism. It makes people hire people that they would never hire otherwise. Do they really want to do a show with Roseanne Barr? No, they want a thin blonde girl.
(Chris Rock on Ferguson, Cosby, and Obama)
I feel very privileged that I didn’t have to think about this growing up.
I’d watch Kenan Thompson play anyone. I’ve love to see him as Steve Bannon (because as much as it would both Bannon/Trump to see a woman in that role, seeing a black man in that role would make them explode [and noting that Leslie Jones, already mentioned above, would make them explode perhaps more]).
How about Kenan Thompson as a woman playing Steve Bannon? Okay, maybe that’s too far…
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Much better!
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Are you kidding? Baldwin nails Trump!
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Orange would be even better, I think. 
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I like Thompson but that also reminds me of the too-short career of Danitra Vance. She was terribly underused but I loved everything she did.
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This needs to be on SNL this weekend. Baldwin is hosting.
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Cheetos’ last brain cell implodes, and Zombie Haig steps in.
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Not one, but two female impersonators of Trump tonight on SNL, including (of course) Leslie… but in neither white nor orange face.
No Rosie yet.
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Not just Ireland.
Individual people who are Catholics are, on average, no better or worse than anyone else.
The Catholic Church as an institution, however, can be accurately described as a global conspiracy of child rapists.
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Close.
It’s a very good film, but it is likely to leave you with a strong urge to punch a nun.
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Kenan as Melania and/or Ivanka, and Rot Dumpland keeps getting them mixed up.
As is the Penn State athletic department (though not global, obviously). The problem is the concentration of power with no oversight.
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I thought they pulled their punches last night. The opening bit was great, but they buried their other Trump sketches way in the back and we got no Rosie O’Donnell as Bannon. Meh. They could have done better. It felt like a let down, honestly.
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Yeah. Seems like corporate entertainment always wimps out when push comes to shove. Always insuring the bottom line ($), I guess.
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That’s exactly what I was thinking…
I had some hope, though. I heard a thing about the Smothers Brother’s show one day this past week, talking about how they kept pushing the envelope until they basically got kicked off the air. I was hoping that SNL would be brave enough to keep pushing things… no such luck, though. 
Still… the Spicer bit at the beginning was great and I did like the People’s Court bit (though it needed more edge). And Kate McKinnon did a great Elizabeth Warren.
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