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dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
6. It's a way they get around the copyright issues. They
Sun Nov 24, 2019, 01:58 AM
Nov 2019

edit camera zooms into the original. SNL doesn't post clips until after the show is finished airing.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
9. It's straight up distracting. Some of the clips of John Oliver
Sun Nov 24, 2019, 02:24 AM
Nov 2019

that aren't owned by HBO use this as well. The Kristen Stewart monologue, focused on a guy behind her, it looked like he stalking her as part of the skit, it was so weird.

applegrove

(118,642 posts)
10. Okay now it makes sense. Sondland (Ferrell in the cold open clip posted
Sun Nov 24, 2019, 02:48 AM
Nov 2019

during the show) was cut out of the shot. I thought it was weird. I usually watch the shows live as the hbo or nbc clips or comedy central clips put out by the shows often don't play in canada. I will keep that in mind.

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Big Chief

(28 posts)
11. I used to laugh at these...
Sun Nov 24, 2019, 04:02 AM
Nov 2019

But I don’t find the humor in them anymore. He’s not funny. Nothing he does is funny. I know laughter is supposed to be a cure-all, but none of this is a joking matter.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
12. I could not agree with you more.
Sun Nov 24, 2019, 07:59 AM
Nov 2019

Like any joke, I thought it was funny the first couple of times...maybe. But now it's a goddamn full-blown living nightmare, and the media's joking about it is just an attempt to try to "normalize" it and make it seem like the situation is almost barely palatable. It's not.

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