SNL cold open asks "What still works?"

[garethb2]

Originally published at: SNL cold open asks "What still works?" | Boing Boing

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[navarro]

@garethb2

“When satire is literally just the news but told in a funny voice.”

satire has been dead for decades now but it keeps getting the pope stephen vi treatment.

[lava]

I was hoping for more wall street/hedge fund schadenfreude but no doubt the money at NBC wouldn’t let them do that.

[knappa]

@garethb2

“When satire is literally just the news but told in a funny voice.”

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/01/30/anderson-cooper-former-qanon-supporter-special-report-sot-ac360-vpx.cnn

The embarrassed former QAnon supporter admits that he had once believed that the people behind Q “were actually a group of 5th dimensional, intra-dimensional, extraterrestrial bi-pedal bird aliens called blue avians.”

[Bobo]

@knappa

“were actually a group of 5th dimensional, intra-dimensional, extraterrestrial bi-pedal bird aliens called blue avians.”

maybe “when the news is just super shittily written sci fi fanfic?”

[danimagoo]

@Bobo

maybe “when the news is just super shittily written sci fi fanfic?”

Oh crap, is Scientology actually behind all this?

[Papasan]

I’m not laughing, it’s not funny, anymore or will it ever be.

[oothoon]

Some missed opportunities with Game Stop, Dorsey, and Zuck. Those bits felt dashed off in places.

[corydodt]

Kate McKinnon landed that “I regret not taking that gun” joke so perfectly that I closed the tab because I knew it wasn’t going to get any funnier than that.

Then I reopened and watched the rest, and I was right.

[DailyBongo]

SNL very rarely gets any funnier than Kate McKinnon these days. I dunno how she manages to carry all those dead weights.