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SCA's avatar

You had to remind me that SNL used to be funny, huh?

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baker charlie's avatar

About a decade ago, they finally released the entirety of the origninal SNL. I watched it all and was actually stunned at how funny and absolutely prescient that series was. A lot of it went over my head as a kid, I just liked the goofy stuff, but there was a lot of political subtext that is worth going back to watch even now.

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SCA's avatar

This should be played everywhere as an act of subversion. Give the DEI folks strokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ

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Renee Marie's avatar

I watched early SNL all the time...and All in the Family, The Jefferson’s, etc. Without humor, society may as well be dead!

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SCA's avatar

Is there anyone in this present company who remembers Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman spoofing "Random Harvest?" Oh children, what you've missed...

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Renee Marie's avatar

Lmao! “Gone With the Wind” was THE BEST! I watched this show every weekend as a kid. I feel sorry for kids now. They can’t laugh at anything.

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Bandit's avatar

I loved that! With the curtain rod across her shoulders. 😂🤣😂🤣

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Wolf J Flywheel's avatar

I saw it in the window and just had to have it.

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Mitch's avatar

that makes me laugh even now

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Renee Marie's avatar

🥳😂

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Bandit's avatar

I don't remember the "Random Harvest" part, but, OMG!, that show slayed me! And I was only 12.

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Bandit's avatar

I do remember seeing that before. I just didn't remember the name.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Harvey and Tim together were a riot.

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Sam's avatar

Red Skeleton and Ed Sullivan! Red was my favorite because my grandpa was just like him. Funny and kind.

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SCA's avatar

There was hilarity without viciousness. To be sure, I don't mind vicious humor when it's aimed at the correct target. But joyous silliness is a wonderful thing.

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Renee Marie's avatar

I got Red Skeleton’s autograph when I was a little girl, at the Dunes Restaurant in Palm Springs, CA. He was much older and his date was much younger.😉 What talent and amazing humor he gave to the world!

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baker charlie's avatar

I got ahold of some 'best of Burnett' stuff and showed it to my kid (well, 30 year old kid). We had a blast. My god, I didn't know how adult some of that stuff was. I saw that originally as a kid and loved Tim Conway for the 'Oldest Man' and 'Mrs Ha-wiggins' sketches. I recently caught their send up of 'Valley of the Dolls' on YouTube. Comedy Gold.

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Ninsuna's avatar

Best of the best! Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Carol Burnett and later, Vicky Lawrence ("Mama's Family"). Tim Conway was an incredible ad libber, and the rest of the cast could barely contain themselves. Like the famous "elephant" scene...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uasRKdYZ4xQ

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Bandit's avatar

My bad! I thought it already was dead.

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Bandit's avatar

An actual funny skit from SNL! It must have been from the 70s.

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SCA's avatar

1975. You never know what you got till it's gone.

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la chevalerie vit's avatar

dead honky😂back when you could say things without the world melting

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SCA's avatar

No kidding.

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baker charlie's avatar

Heck, I'm surprised it's allowed on you tube.

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SCA's avatar

We gotta cherish these things while we can (and make secret archives...)

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Bootsorourke's avatar

Thank you

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TRM's avatar

This was always my favourite skit. Over the last 3 years I think this sums up modern medicine. Especially the last part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ

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baker charlie's avatar

The one with a doctor I still think about is the one where the couple goes to the doctor to concieve a baby and gets offered all these genetic options for the child,

Like 'do you want a boy or a girl?'

'A boy.'

'Do you want him to be (something with a degree) or a welder?'

'Hmmm, a Welder sounds good, good career..'

'Do you want the baby to have a normal head or a shrimp head?'

(Confusion) 'A SHRIMP head?'

' Well, the welding goggles will fit better...'

(Couple nodding together emphatically) 'Oh yes a shrimp head, that sounds great....'

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Bandit's avatar

Still not funny.

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Renee Marie's avatar

Try watching “Laugh In”...this is my SNL for you!

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baker charlie's avatar

My parents wouldn't let me watch it, but i saw at friends houses. Pretty much all I remember is Arte Johnson (?) doing the 'verrry interesting' thing and he and Ruth Buzzi as the old people on the park bench. I also remember Lily Tomlin doing her Ernestine character, but I don't know if it was from that show or another one (like Sonny and Cher).

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Maizing's avatar

I know, right?

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SCA's avatar

When we tell the little ones that TV used to make us laugh out loud until we were crying, they're gonna think it's one o' those whoppers the old folks like to tease 'em with.

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carolyn kostopoulos's avatar

their timing is so bad. comedy 101: brevity is the soul of wit but skits on SNL drone on forever

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SCA's avatar

Sometimes a long-building story can be hilarious but the payoff must be worth it.

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carolyn kostopoulos's avatar

i've never seen it be worth it on SNL. then again i'm one of those people who only thought it was funny in the first year and haven't watched it since

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Religions, ideologies and causes come and go, but Church Ladies are forever.

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SCA's avatar

Funny how many people don't want to acknowledge that Church Lady is the mother of Karen.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Karens are Social Justice Church Ladies, same people just different beliefs.

Taylor Lorenz is their Phyllis Schafly or Anita Bryant, and they are the new Moral Majority.

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SCA's avatar

Burn this after reading and never remind me I said it--but don't defame Phyllis Schlafly by comparing her to that whining neurotic Taylor Lorenz.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

same genus, different species?

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SCA's avatar

It is terrifying to look back and realize Schlafly was correct about many things she was then and forever reviled about.

I'm not a conservative, I'm not a Christian--but she was a smart woman, and had the capacity, that most people don't, of being able to see around corners and not just straight ahead.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Once the heat of battle is over and the media caricatures forgotten, we can see that there were a lot of figures from our recent past who tried to throw up a STOP sign as we blasted our way to the wasteland of nihilistic consumerist narcissism we currently inhabit.

I'm reading Rieff today so have some of his formulations/conclusions in my head: if the choice is/was between the Stern Father (a la Phyllis' Christianity) who provided order and discipline (things that may hurt today that will benefit us tomorrow) vs the Loving Mother (which is the mask the Market God is currently wearing) who provides candy, compassion and a safe space to discuss your feelings (therapeutic onanism), the Father has no chance.

The post-60s West is like living inside a giant candy store, and we are all fat, spoiled and selfish children (with Americans in the role of Augustus Gloop).

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SCA's avatar

I think we need to be reminded daily that we ain't modern, we're just *now,* and the ancient Greeks and Romans felt exactly the same at the same point in their civilizations. Nobody likes living in the decline part of the endless cycle.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Glubb's cycle decides so much of our lives before we're even born:

http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf

Hopefully we can prolong Decadence and not get to Collapse until after I'm dead!

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SCA's avatar

It's a very terrible thing that the hunger to make life better for one's children leads to the foolishness of succeeding generations.

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Bandit's avatar

I understand the wanting them to have a better life. I don't understand the babying and doing everything for them. Now, we have mostly no adults in, at least, 2 generations. I just can't imagine why we're so f'd. 🤔

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Mitch's avatar

hence "tough love"

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Bandit's avatar

Sadly, I think you are very correct. 😞

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Momo's avatar

Also Gladys the neighbor from the TV show "Bewitched". Remember her?

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Porge's avatar

Aaaabnerrr!!!

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SCA's avatar

Yup. Snoopy gossipers ye shall always have with you.

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rickrolled's avatar

🎯😂

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

I guess sanctimonious religious fundamentalists all suffer from resting puckerface.

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SomeDude's avatar

I read that with an "f" instead of a "p" 😅

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Pi Guy's avatar

"Well, isn't that special?"

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Mark's avatar

Much like sanctimonious Biden cabinet officers....

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Peregrine's avatar

These "people" totally lack self-awareness.

Did not this "female" have any normal hetero girlfriends to guide her through those awkward years? It looks she was stuck in awkward.

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SCA's avatar

Keep in mind that these people have achieved inordinate power over our lives. Their ultimate revenge.

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Vxi7's avatar

She just looks like a creep and a psycho.

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this little authoritarian's avatar

Ah, the sanctity of sanctimony.

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Rosemary B's avatar

she looks much more stoopit though..... - and skeery

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Hello300's avatar

I resemble that remark!

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SomeDude's avatar

🤣

could that be.... SATAN?!?

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Efferous's avatar

Ever notice that those who are truly batshit looney instinctively dress the part too? It’s always the same glasses styles, hair, and apparel.

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Mike's avatar

Are we even sure she’s a she?

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Wolf J Flywheel's avatar

Can we call her the "Virus Lady"?

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rickrolled's avatar

YES!!! Early 90s era SNL was the absolute best!

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Pi Guy's avatar

Second best. And very good.

But the original cast is legendary.

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Bootsorourke's avatar

No! 😳 seriously. She even LOoks like a useful idiot.

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Mickey Free's avatar

I wonder if Art ever imitates Art? Certainly, Reality never imitates Reality. At least, I don't think it does. But how would I know, since what I see, may not be Reality at all, but just the often boring and annoying astral projection of some Superduper Powerful movie producers from somewhere else in the mostly unknowable Cosmos? Or not...

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Jillian England's avatar

Except Gollum was a victim and the evil entity that thought they were God was Sauron. But yes I understand the analogy. WWII was fought against tyrannical evil powers. Today similar powers still move the world. Powers of darkness and evil that hate life and beauty.

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

I am not actually all that mystical about this. It is greed and predatory practices against the great masses of humanity. We are the apex predators on this planet. Some of us are prey for the others. I know that is wrong and mean but that is what is happening. This is the nightmare of the carnivorous ape. We are that nightmare.

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Candy's avatar

Yeah, sorry. That was supposed to be a joke

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Jillian England's avatar

I thought the comic was good. Made me think of te real subject and purpose of the war. Tolkien wrote an amazing story using references to his work is completely appropriate since the world war of The Rings , reflected WWI and certainly applies to WW-whicheverOneThisIs

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Libor Soural's avatar

Toniac is a death maniac!

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Candy's avatar

Yes! Lol

My brother-in-law watches a lot of YouTube, and he’s convinced that jim carrey is substituting for biden in some of his appearances

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