Posts Tagged with "SNL"

Chevy Chase, satire and anger

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

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Dennis Perrin over at Red State Son has some interesting thoughts about Chevy Chase’s ongoing comedic straight-talk. I was particularly interested in what Dennis said near the end, comparing the blunt, righteous anger of comedians during Watergate to the weak tea being peddled today. Even with legends-in-the-making like Stewart and Colbert there seems to be [...]

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This just in: Stephen Colbert has a pair

Monday, May 1, 2006

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As many of you know, I spent much of my twenties trying to get things that were actually funny broadcast on television and published in magazines. This is relatively impossible when you’re dealing with a large-scale outlet like The New Yorker (for which Jon and I wrote pieces) or SNL (for which Jon and I [...]

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"…a cockroach-like ability to endure"

Friday, October 3, 2003

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It’s time for the annual evisceration of SNL. If there was ever a metaphor for everything awful about Baby Boomers, SNL is it. (Yes, I know it’s not put out by baby boomers anymore; that’s my point.) At least the author of this article understands that criticizing SNL does no good.

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P.J. O’Rourke in The Onion…

Monday, September 22, 2003

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The Onion recently ran this interview with P.J. O’Rourke, timed (I suppose) to the recent rerelease of the National Lampoon High School Yearbook Parody, which PJ co-edited with Doug Kenney back in 1974. While we’re on the subject, and sorry to fulfill everybody’s expectations by saying so (“Ahh, nobody knows how to do print humor [...]

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