Like most other people, my mind is blown by the idea that Al Franken — the guy who played freakin’ Stuart Smalley — is now a United States senator (or is about to be, whatever). Even if it’s from the state that elected a feather boa-wearing pro wrestler governor. But then the Associated Press touched upon an issue I hadn’t yet considered: who will play Minnesota’s junior senator on “Saturday Night Live”?
When asked Wednesday who’d be best for the role, Franken first told The Associated Press it may be Fred Armisen, who portrays President Barack Obama in SNL skits. He then said occasional guest Alec Baldwin might be a better fit. [...]
Franken himself parodied a U.S. senator at least once on SNL, playing a Democrat at confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Franken expects be on the Senate Judiciary Committee, for real, by the time hearings begin for Obama high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
So. Freakin’. Weird. It’s hard enough for me to accept parody becoming reality, but for parody to parody the parody-turned-reality? That hurts my brain. And what if Franken comes on the show to reprise Stuart Smalley and give advice to Armisen-as-Franken? It would create a parody paradox that might just end the world. Or at least democracy.
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Yeah, I’ve got a question. Is SNL really that shitty now that they are writing sketches about a junior senator from Minnesota?
Al Franken playing Senator Paul Tsongas was about the only funny thing he did on SNL, but it was pretty funny.
Credibility points are earned when Franken goes around wearing the satellite dish on his head
Here’s to America (raises glass of delicious Kentucky bourbon). Hope everybody has a great 4th of July.
“It would create a parody paradox that might just end the world. Or at least democracy.”
I’m thinking that Franken being elected to the Senate is what is going to end democracy.
Something is in the water in Minnesota.
Is SNL really that shitty now that they are writing sketches about a junior senator from Minnesota?
Not ordinarily, but SNL is going to leap at the chance to be self-referential.
Hmmmm, who at SNL can play a guy that was rarely funny yet annoyingly arrogant? Who, oh who, can make that big of a stretch?
Al Franken playing Senator Paul Tsongas was about the only funny thing he did on SNL, but it was pretty funny.
Christ, that was good. He really nailed the Kermit voice that Tsongas had.
That Clarence Thomas skit was hysterical — Franken as Paul Simon, Carvey as Strom Thurmond, Hartman as Ted Kennedy, Nealon as Joe Biden, and Farley as Howell Heflin.
“Sen. Strom Thurmond: I agree with Senator Heflin. Yeah, that’s right! The women like something with more stories and costumes, that’ll transport ‘em to another place and time. That’s right! Women don’t like close-ups of oversized genitalia! That’s just never gonna turn ‘em on!”
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Ronald Reagan was a prosecuting attorney in California before becoming Governor and then President. I will hear nothing to the contrary…*hands over ears* La La La La La