Video: SNL laughs at Romney’s jihad ad? Update: Or does it? Update: Fake
posted at 9:20 am on October 15, 2007 by Allahpundit
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I didn’t cut this myself and it seems like an odd gag for the show, but there’s the logo at the end of the clip so there’s no reason to doubt the provenance. I’d like to believe they’re laughing at the style of the ad rather than the substance. I’d like to, but I don’t.
Note: no actual jokes here. They simply added derisive instant laugh track and stirred.
Update: Commenters are doubting whether this is really an SNL product. I’m suspicious, too. It’s amateurish (or rather, more amateurish than SNL is), like something one of the Paulnuts would have stitched together. But why add the SNL logo, then? Anyone see the show this weekend and can confirm or debunk?
Update: Reader Brett S. e-mails to say that he Tivo’d the show this weekend and can confirm that this is well and truly fake.
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Spirit of 1776 on October 15, 2007 at 9:22 AM
What the hell????
Rightwingsparkle on October 15, 2007 at 9:24 AM
Oh, those funny jihadists! Remember when they flew our planes in to our buildings?? HILARIOUS!
I just laugh everytime I think about it.
Rightwingsparkle on October 15, 2007 at 9:26 AM
I may puke.
Rightwingsparkle on October 15, 2007 at 9:26 AM
Don’t get it.
Krydor on October 15, 2007 at 9:30 AM
I could be wrong, but that looks nothing like the SNL logo I’ve been seeing all season. Looks to me like some amateur with a basic video editing program with sound effects put this together. Or am I missing something?
freakagriep on October 15, 2007 at 9:32 AM
Gotta be missing some context. That doesn’t even pass for an attempt at humor.
trubble on October 15, 2007 at 9:32 AM
Well, there goes another 40 seconds I’ll never get back. I should have trusted your synopsis at the end and saved myself the time.
AP, why are you promoting that when you could be promoting a topic that’ll get some great Mitt hatin’ going for the day?
csdeven on October 15, 2007 at 9:36 AM
csdeven,
Well, I’ll give you some Mitt Loving today.
Rightwingsparkle on October 15, 2007 at 9:41 AM
Unfortunately, I didn’t see the show, and I’m not really sure why they added the logo if it is indeed a Paulnut or whomever. My only guess is they thought it would heighten the popularity of the clip?
freakagriep on October 15, 2007 at 9:42 AM
Doesn’t this “parody” spoof the Left who think the war on terror is a bumper sticker?
Buy Danish on October 15, 2007 at 9:42 AM
I’d confirm but I stopped watching SNL long ago. The writers are pandering hacks.
Unless that was all Tina Faye’s doing, and now that she is gone, perhaps it is watchable again?
mojowire on October 15, 2007 at 9:42 AM
Ahmadinejad prays for the end of the world at the beginning of each of his speeches, and people are laughing at the prospect of him getting nukes. ugh.
forest on October 15, 2007 at 9:44 AM
Or here’s some good Fred “Waht’s a dollar?” Thompson hatin’ if that blows yer skirt up.
csdeven on October 15, 2007 at 9:46 AM
I think the giveaways are:
The lame sound mixing and the *old* SNL logo. The people making that show may not be funny, but they can certainly do better than that.
Malpaso on October 15, 2007 at 9:50 AM
Not that I’ve been much of an SNL viewer the past few years, but this just doesn’t feel like their style.
flipflop on October 15, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Real or not, it’s telling that 30 minutes have passed and no one can be found who actually watched the show. HA recaps of any stray funny (or buzzworthy unfunny) have remedied any remaining reason to slog through the 90-minute version.
flip on October 15, 2007 at 9:53 AM
Very nice. I’ve been waiting for someone to mention that search for the girl. There isn’t a whole lot of folks that would do that. Not rich folks anyway. They seem more interested in protecting their wealth than using it as a tool to allow them to help others.
csdeven on October 15, 2007 at 9:56 AM
The audience sound was too small to have been the in-studio crowd at SNL.
Fake.
nosliwelyk on October 15, 2007 at 10:14 AM
Looks er, Sounds like another Move-on.org successful
attempt to show just how sick they truly are.
Texyank on October 15, 2007 at 10:24 AM
I call fake.
If that’s really from SNL, they’ve cut the size of their studio audience down by about 2/3. That’s laughter from a club-sized comedy gig, overdubbed onto the commercial to no great comedic effect. There’s absolutely nothing that lends itself to being interpreted as “funny” in what he says. Detractors/libs could at best say “yeah, right,” but I doubt they’d laugh the way this pretend crowd does.
And yes,
Nuff said.
Captain Scarlet on October 15, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Nice try allapundit, trying to get one of us to admit to watching SNL.
Kahuna on October 15, 2007 at 10:31 AM
[Kahuna on October 15, 2007 at 10:31 AM]
LMAO
Dusty on October 15, 2007 at 10:44 AM
I didn’t see SNL, but I’m guessing this is a fake. It just doesn’t feel like something SNL would do. I could be wrong.
This spoof is very revealing re: how some people view the threat of Jihadism as utterly benign. Imagine if Romney had delivered the following line deadpan:
“It’s this century’s nightmare: more Wayans Brothers’ films”.
Now imagine if there was actually a group of people who genuinely thought that Wayans Brothers films were a serious threat to the survival of humanity. It would make the line even funnier. It’s a “nudge-nudge, wink-wink” to all those people around the world who snicker and sneer at those lesser, easily manipulated humans who ACTUALLY BELIEVE (!!) that Jihadism is a threat.
Someone could make a comeback to this by adding a laugh track to Al Gore’s prophesies of doom via global warming.
dave_lantos on October 15, 2007 at 11:49 AM
I agree, If only the average American could see that in this clip.
abinitioadinfinitum on October 15, 2007 at 12:22 PM
I just fast forwarded through all of Saturday Night Live from this weekend and this clip wasn’t in there at all.
However, “People Getting Punched Right Before They Eat” was great.
askheaves on October 15, 2007 at 12:35 PM
No, this isn’t an SNL bit…It was on Digg yesterday (I think) posted by some Ron Paul fan after Romney lost the latest straw poll to, of course, Ron Paul.
I’ll see if I can dig up the link…
JetBoy on October 15, 2007 at 12:43 PM
OK, here’s the Digg COMMENTS on that vid…typical diggbat stuff…
JetBoy on October 15, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Ever since Belushi’s Canadian ‘girlfriend’ accidentally killed him with a speedball (CUE: laughtrack?), SNL has been running on empty.
I tend to put on a good video, like “The Big Sleep”, “RAN”, “Blade Runner” (NOT the “dirtector’s cut”),
“Johnny Stecchino” or something else entertaining, rather than watch the erosion of the instinct for survival that “progressive” comedy has become.
profitsbeard on October 15, 2007 at 1:01 PM
Speaking of Self Parody . . . I present to you, “csdeven”
- The Cat
MirCat on October 15, 2007 at 1:17 PM
Oh the irony that this was posted by a cheerleader for Paul. If anyone’s words deserve a laugh track accompanying them, it’s Ron Paul.
Buy Danish on October 15, 2007 at 1:36 PM
Heh. If I had seen this version first, I wouldn’t have believed that the ad was real. “It’s this century’s nightmare: jihadism.” I laughed at that almost as hard as I laughed at Gore’s “planetary emergency” line. Can’t anything ever be a normal “medium” threat? I mean, I don’t like the Bush administration’s utter disregard of the law, but I don’t frame it as “this centry’s nightmare: executive branch power increases.”
Mark Jaquith on October 15, 2007 at 1:40 PM
The aforementioned People Getting Punched Just Before Eating that had me in stitches this morning.
askheaves on October 15, 2007 at 1:44 PM
Have you looked in the mirror lately, oh ye of the oft time pathetically unfunny remarks? I keep waiting for some type of substantial meaningful comment from you but rarely is there any offering.
csdeven on October 15, 2007 at 1:47 PM
Hasn’t anyone else caught on to the fact that 98% of Ron Paul’s supporters are liberals purposely throwing in with the dipstick in order to sabotoge the Republican primary campaigns? Even if the numbskull were to get to the general election he’d get no more than 2% of their votes. P L E A S E.
Griz on October 15, 2007 at 2:01 PM
Ron Paul hasn’t a chance. Furthermore, I’m certain he’s in the political death throes for his home state, too. The 14th Congressional District of Texas will probably run him out on a rail for his moonbattery.
Black Adam on October 15, 2007 at 2:59 PM
I’m thinking it’d be great to add a laugh track whenever a celebrity says something asinine like “I think the Bush administration is just as big a threat as the Taliban” or “fundamentalist Christians scare me just as much as fundamentalist Muslims”. It’d work particularly well with shows that have audiences, like The View or Bill Maher.
dave_lantos on October 15, 2007 at 3:05 PM
I can’t believe anyone would think that video was real.
It’s amateur at best.
The Ugly American on October 15, 2007 at 3:44 PM
if it is SNL, theyre in trouble because they stole Olbermans 7 audience members.
malkinmania on October 15, 2007 at 6:22 PM
lame
urbancenturion on October 15, 2007 at 9:58 PM
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