Has SNL always been this liberal?

[jayctravis]

I'm actually enjoying the new cast...and Robert DeNiro and Kermit singing? What more can you ask for?

Haven't watched in a while, is there a cast member from Mad TV, or perhaps his brother?

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

1. Not really. They tend to go after whoever's in power. Makes for better

comedy.

Sort of like the Capitol Steps.

[Hatalles]

2. DeNiro

I thought I saw DeNiro's name on the list of conservative celebrities on that freeper "liberal-hollywood" site that was passed around here earlier this week. Is he crackin' Bush jokes? Are the freepers spewing forth more misinformation? Go fig.

[The Great Escape]

3. DeNiro Is Featured In F911 With Al Gore...

he's definitely nada regressive.

[russian33]

6. DeNiro is not conservative, gave big to Hillary

and to Kerry.

[merwin]

19. Contrary to popular belief, you can be conservative and hate bush n/t

[Merlot]

4. I think it's the guy from MadTV

He's no longer on MadTV. He did a great Kerry during the SNL debates. I love MadTV, but their debates were so slanted towards bush it was dissapointing. When I started watching MadTV, they did more bush bashing, and I was very supprised. Then, last season, it all stopped. It was like fox woke up and said, can't have any of that.

As for SNL, their political humor is usually the best part of their show. Tina Fey's news is pretty liberal

[EEgrad2003]

8. No, that was his brother on Mad TV

Seth Myers,the guy that played Kerry, is on SNL. His brother Josh Myers was on Mad TV

[Hatalles]

14. Totally agree with you regarding Mad TV. n/t

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[yellowdogintexas]

11. they are really bad about repeats anymore. It never fails, if I

watch it once in a season, you can bet the next time I watch it ..it will be the repeat of the only other time I ever watched it all year.

Don't worry, it will be on again.

[aquart]

7. Oh no, was it a new one?

I didn't watch. I was sure it was a rerun.

[Lefty48197]

9. the news was great

With Tina and the Blonde lady. Sorry, I don't know her name. She's been on awhile, but I think she's really hit her stride since joining Tina on the news. Tonight the first few jokes were anti-Bush. It's nice to see people on TV that aren't Bush ass-kissers.

[yellowdogintexas]

10. In the Golden Years (first 5 years) SNL was almost subversive

beyond liberal...of course they had excellent material (Nixon, Ford) to draw on, brilliant actor/writers (Belushi,Ackroyd,Chase,Curtin,Radner,Newman,and later Bill Murray)

They were so spot on every single week. I was living in Nashville when the show came on the air and the local NBC affiliate delayed the broadcast until 11:30 Central time...so they could review it I guess. Or else to protect anybody that was too young and still up that late.

[XOKCowboy]

12. The NBC station in Tulsa

didn't carry SNL its first year. They didn't think that it would last and/or any of their viewers would want to watch such subversive TV. Gee thanks.

[indigobusiness]

13. Then disco rolled in and they appropriately hired Dennis Miller.

To give it an air of polyester...and tighten up its ass cheeks.

[Blue_Tires]

15. i grew up watching reruns of the original SNL cast from '75-'79

on Nick at Nite in the late 80s and it was (for it's time) VERY anti-establishment, bucking-the-system-push-the-envelope comedy opened up a whole new world to me...sheer brilliance, and it's almost funny to see how the show has risen and dipped over the years after becoming more mainstream (MTV is now in the same boat after being the epicenter of youth counterculture)...hell, NBC came VERY close to pulling the cord in the early 90s....

BTW: Nick at nite used to show SNL back to back with SCTV...now that's somce good watchin'!!!

[Blue_Tires]

16. double post

[bobweaver]

17. The animated piece about Santa by Robert Smigel was absolutely brilliant.

[Yupster]

18. Yes always very liberal

Al Franken did their political writing for years. He's pretty liberal.

I remember in 1988 before the election, Franken did one of the weirdest comedy bits ever.

He came out with an easel and hand drew a map of the USA and put each state's electoral votes in and showed America how Dukakis could win enough states to pull it out and win it.

I thought at the time what a weird skit that was. Basically a political ad in a comedy show.

Now with Franken coming out as a pretty much full time political partisan it makes more sense, but I still think it was a very weird sketch and very inappropriate also.