Comments on: Video: SNL laughs at Romney’s jihad ad? Update: Or does it? Update: Fake

By: urbancenturion

urbancenturion — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:58:02 +0000

lame

By: malkinmania

malkinmania — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:22:26 +0000

if it is SNL, theyre in trouble because they stole Olbermans 7 audience members.

By: The Ugly American

The Ugly American — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:44:00 +0000

I can’t believe anyone would think that video was real.

It’s amateur at best.

By: dave_lantos

dave_lantos — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:05:32 +0000

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.

By: Black Adam

Black Adam — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:59:41 +0000

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.

By: Griz

Griz — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:01:13 +0000

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.

By: csdeven

csdeven — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:47:11 +0000

MirCat on October 15, 2007 at 1:17 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.

By: askheaves

askheaves — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:44:34 +0000

The aforementioned People Getting Punched Just Before Eating that had me in stitches this morning.

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:40:21 +0000

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.”

By: Buy Danish

Buy Danish — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:36:13 +0000

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.

By: MirCat

MirCat — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:17:24 +0000

Speaking of Self Parody . . . I present to you, “csdeven”

- The Cat

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:01:40 +0000

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.

By: JetBoy

JetBoy — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:49:32 +0000

OK, here's the Digg COMMENTS on that vid...typical diggbat stuff...

By: JetBoy

JetBoy — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:43:44 +0000

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…

By: askheaves

askheaves — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:35:31 +0000

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.

By: abinitioadinfinitum

abinitioadinfinitum — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:22:04 +0000

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 agree, If only the average American could see that in this clip.

By: dave_lantos

dave_lantos — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:49:22 +0000

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.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:44:23 +0000

[Kahuna on October 15, 2007 at 10:31 AM]

LMAO

By: Kahuna

Kahuna — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:31:58 +0000

Nice try allapundit, trying to get one of us to admit to watching SNL.

By: Captain Scarlet

Captain Scarlet — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:25:40 +0000

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,

Real or not, it’s telling that 30 minutes have passed and no one can be found who actually watched the show.

Nuff said.

By: Texyank

Texyank — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:24:51 +0000

Looks er, Sounds like another Move-on.org successful
attempt to show just how sick they truly are.

By: nosliwelyk

nosliwelyk — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:14:22 +0000

The audience sound was too small to have been the in-studio crowd at SNL.

Fake.

By: csdeven

csdeven — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:56:52 +0000

Rightwingsparkle on October 15, 2007 at 9:41 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.

By: flip

flip — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:53:52 +0000

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.

By: flipflop

flipflop — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:51:31 +0000

Not that I’ve been much of an SNL viewer the past few years, but this just doesn’t feel like their style.