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(23,542 posts)nolabear
(41,960 posts)Carrey is a bad Joe but the material was hysterical!
cilla4progress
(24,731 posts)I think it's damaging to Joe to perpetuate the senile old man lie.
2naSalit
(86,600 posts)I don't see the amusement in that. And I am not in favor of Jim Carrey in that role. He has his good points but trying ti imitate Joe isn't one of them.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,607 posts)MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)Second half must have been skits by the awful writers that have done the previous shows this season.
Kahuna
(27,311 posts)superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)Nt
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and often no, relation to truth. Humor without illuminating truth as its point is just emotional slapstick. And that's what SNL is, kept alive by those episodes with moments of the kind of truthy brilliance we talk about the next day.
Imo, casting Jim Carry as a slapstick character named Biden was a sadly lost opportunity because it pretty much destroyed any chance of creating one of those around his candidacy.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Have a sense of humor.