Genius

In posting about the First Amendment yesterday,The Other Political Junkie included video of SNL's hilarious cold open, but this blog would be remiss if we did not also mention that episode's 'second cold open.' Melissa McCarthy was simply brilliant as Press Secretary Sean Spicer. McCarthy's physical comedy combined with the spot-on take of the absurdity and sore-winner-anger of the Trump propaganda machine is TO DIE FOR! "Your word!"

 

It's their party and they'll do what they want

C-SPAN footage of Romney in Pittsburgh

(Nice partial seal, SNL Art Dept.)

See If You Can Tell The Difference

Is this real or SNL?


Happy Monday!

I hate Mondays!

Spot On

SNL takes on the Michael Phelps controversy and totally nails it:



UPDATE: I can't embed NBC videos, but you can watch it here.
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Don't Come Around Here No More

Since we've been neglecting the local stuff*, here's something that Digby wrote about Pittsburgh native Dennis Miller:

Nevertheless, as God is my witness, if Dennis Miller tries to come back in the fold I will make it my life's work to destroy him. I'll show up at this concerts with pictures of dead Iraqi children. I'll organize boycotts of every comedy club he tries to appear in. I'll make it my business to ensure that nobody ever forgets what a fucking jackass he has been for the past eight years.

He was on O'Reilly earlier this week, revealing his puerile sexual imagination once again, but also giving a tiny hint that he might just be tacking back to the left in light of the fact that his affiliation with the right is no longer fashionable -- even among them...

Agreed!

My little Dennis Miller story

Back in the 80's I had a part-time gig in NBC's Election Division doing polling. We were on the same floor as the Saturday Night Live writers (used to bump into Al Franken in the elevator). One evening I was waiting for the elevator to leave work with several of my coworkers. The elevator door opens and there's Dennis Miller with two of the female cast members on each arm. He struts out and he stops and poses -- he even shook his hair back like some model with a long mane -- waiting for some acknowledgment from us.

He got nothing.

Maybe an eye roll (certainly from me). He finally left so we could get on the elevator. I guess he was waiting to be asked to sign an autograph or something. What a conceited jerk.

*Yeah, yeah, I'm pushing it. Got to get back to paying attention to Lil Mayor Luke, or Council, or the non Ethics Board...
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In Case You Missed It

You can read the transcript here.

Special message to the media covering Governor Palin can be found at the end when "Senator Clinton" says:

So I invite the media to grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.

Let's just hope someone in the media takes her up on her offer.