OMG! They are doing an SNL opening .

[Neshanic]

What the fuck is that? Has a line been crossed on Tweety's show? This is very diconcerting having GE/NBC compliant with a production that mimics a network show....all show on Tweetyvision.

[Must_B_Free]

1. trying to act "cool"

[aquart]

2. WHO is doing SNL? For what purpose?

Showing a clip? Or doing a parody?

[Eric J in MN]

11. They said on Air America they were showing Republicans

in a montage similar to the opening montage on "Saturday Night Live."

[Apple Smoothie]

3. What is SNL

[Emboldened Chimp]

4. Um, Saturday Night Live..

Where you been the last 30 years?

[Tight_rope]

5. Don't feel bad...I was about to ask the same thing..

[bunkerbuster1]

6. A television program that used to be very funny

...about 25, 30 years years ago.

Honestly, the first year or two, when I'd tune in to Saturday Night live, I thought I was witnessing something truly anarchic and subversive. Soon enough though it was meet the new boss/same as the old boss.

And oddly enough, I really, really hated Al Franken on the show. Funny how he got better as he got older.

[lpbk2713]

18. It's where Dennis Miller got his start.

My, how things change.

[Bandit]

23. And that is exactly when the show started it's decline.

The greats from the early original shows would roll over in their graves, at least the ones that are no longer here, at what the show has become.

[Protected]

7. How do you know that NBC produced this?

Parody is fair game under copyright law. I think that SNL had nothing to do with this.

[stavka]

9. I tend to agree

SNL (Dennis Miller aside) has been pretty anti- Republican from day one to day today....and it has been a lot funnier than it was at it's start from time to time....certainly the 3rd (Hartman/Lovitz/Hooks) and 4th core(Hammond/Farrel/Fey) writers/casts were more talented than the first (Belushi/Chase/Radner) - jury still out on cast number 5

[Strawman]

8. I am going to keep a picture of Ed Gillespie in my wallet

In case I ever need to induce vomiting. That smug little twit disgusts me. I almost hurled when he pointed to the Bush marquee at MSG at the end of that little bit. Good ol' "shit spread Ed." That's his arguing style. "I'm going to rattle off 15 totally bogus arguments in about 30 seconds to make it look like I got all the facts. You'll never have a chance to call me on any of them in this 2 minute segment and say what you came here to say."

[keyzersoze13]

10. Cheney

Anyone notice the rare grin in Cheney's picture during the introduction? He must have slaughtered a family of bunny rabbits or something before taking that picture!

Seriously, though, how sad and desperate was that intro?

[ComerPerro]

13. That picture

Was taken right after someone told him how much money Haliburton stood to make if we went to war with Iraq.

[peekaloo]

12. Would someone briefly describe the intro......just had dinner so I'm

not tuning in.


:puke:

[oldlady]

14. I will..

was watching on C-span & was so freaked out I called people immediately-- the launch of the evening session went as follows:
1. a less-than-talented young woman sang the Star Spangled Banner
2. A Muslim Imam gave a prayer
3. A bunch of Broadway-type singers sang a long medley of show tunes
4. A way-too-perky woman was interviewing the Convention CEO from the convention floor & pretended to be receiving a message in her earpiece, then said: "wait, they're telling me you have a very important announcement for us". The Convention CEO then shouted out "Live from New York, it's the Republican National Convention"and then followed the SNL theme music, close-ups of important Repugs, and the voice shouting out their names (just like the SNL line-up)
5. This was followed by people standing in front of the most awful animation of an element surrounded by Timothy Leary type red and white stripes
6. State roll calls for delegates were called out for a states that started with the letter M & for each another graphic was posted behind the stage--- for Michigan-- they had car tires (Michael Moore must have choked on his tongue when that popped up!) and for Montana they had a cowboy with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth (nod to the tobacco supporters)-- knocked me out, the whole thing:
my take-- the Repugs try to say:
1. we like schoolchildren and leave no singer behind
2. we like Muslims
3. we like gay people
4. we like the 70s
5. we like drugs
6. we like really shitty clipart and know how to use powerpoint, cuz we is technical wizards (my daughter explained that artists are left-brained and left-politically...hmmm...must be)

I also really liked all the white cowboy hat folks with matching denim shirts and khaki pants. bizarre!

I was sad when they cut to Milwaukee firefighters (my home state) and the speaker there held up a helmet with #43 for Bush & said "President Bush, we would walk into a burning building with you" -- but, then I thought, you know-- I'd walk into a burning building with Bush, if I could be assured neither of us would emerge.

peace.

[faithnotgreed]

16. hi oldlady! that part about walking into the burning bldg did get

me thinking, thats for sure!

welcome to du

[belle]

17. eesh. cheeze WHIZ. wonder how that played in Peoria.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

19. Wow. gag. Thanks for the synopsis for we without TV. Very telling.

Hmmm. A muslim prayer, cowboys in white hats.

So they performed that classic number from the Broadway show 'Oklahoma' that goes "The Muslim and the Fascist Can Git Along."

Then the original cast of 'The Producers' performed
'Springtime For Hitler' with John Ashcroft making a cameo appearance.

Yikes. I heard Rudi talking about how Europeans have been appeasing terrorists since 1972 but * was steadfast and was gonna win the war against terror by emptying all our ammo into civilian neighborhoods.

How the hell do you stop terrorism by killing thousands of innocents?

Is that like fucking for chastity?
Declaring martial law to save democracy?

"Bombs falling from the skies again.
Deutschland is on the rise again."

[peekaloo]

21. Thank you.

I appreciate your detailed description.

:yourock:

[smirkymonkey]

15. "Tweetyvision!" LOL!

I hereby nominate that term, respectfully submitted by Neshanic, to be formally entered into the DU Lexicon. :)

[ima_sinnic]

20. yes!

... great thread, kick

:hippie:

[noonwitch]

22. Too bad they couldn't get Gerry Ford to stumble on set and say

"Live from New York...". He's 90+, it could be really funny if staged properly.

Ford is probably smart enough to stay far away from the GOP convention. He's a liberal, after all, compared to the current party.