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Animalman said:
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Dave the Wonder Boy said:
SNL parodies liberals too, but they seem to save the hardest punches for the Republicans.



Wow, I really don't see it that way. SNL bashes everyone. Janet Reno(there should be no argument that Will Ferrell's Reno was the harshest and most hilarious of any political impersonation), Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, they've been hit just as hard as the Bushes have.
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Hell, Darrell Hammond's Clinton still shows up!
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Also, Rudy Giuliani and John Mccain made more appearances on the show than any other politician by far.
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I don't know what the political leanings of the SNL writers are or have been, but I definitely don't think there's any obvious political bend to the show.



Well... I still enjoy much of the parody of Bush and other conservatives as well as the parodies of Democrats, such as Clinton, Gore, Kerry, etc.
I recall this one skit with Dan Quayle from the 1989-1991 period, titled "The Dan Quayle Show" (patterned after the Dick Van Dyke Show) where Quayle arrives home from work and his son runs up to him and goes: "Daddy, what did you bring home for me?"
Quayle (I think played by Dana Carvey) reaches in his jacket and hands the kid a book and says: "Here's a top secret CIA intelligence report, you can read it and tell me what it says."

I don't see "Janet Reno Dance Party" as a brutal portrayal of Janet Reno. Otherwise, if it were that brutal, when Janet Reno took a swipe at running for Florida governor, she never would have had a fund-raiser publicity thing and called it "Janet Reno Dance Party" as it was on Saturday Night Live.

Similarly, I've seen some very funny parodies of Bill Clinton, where he was overweight in a jogging suit at McDonald's, meeting people, appearing to campaign, but only was friendly to people so he could mooch their food.
And other skits that Clinton is portrayed as a guy you wouldn't want to leave alone with your girlfriend or sister.

But in the cases of G.W.Bush and Quayle, they portray them as idiots who couldn't find their own asshole in the dark. And I find attacks on their competency based on nothing in particular to be a bit mean and less funny. Although much of it is, admittedly, quite funny.

Again, I'm sure we all have a different perspective of what is partisan and over the line, and what is good comedy. It can often be both at the same time.

While I have seen Giuliani and McCain appear as guests on Saturday Night Live, I don't know that they've been on that much. I've seen them each once on the program, perhaps they've been on more than that. But to my knowledge, no more so than Clinton, Gore and other prominent Democrats.

SNL had a great "Presidential Bash" special a few nights before the election that was hilarious. Collecting parodies from SNL's last 30-years of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Mondale, Perot, Clinton, Bush Sr, G.W. Bush and Kerry, that was hilarious.