https://www.fastcompany.com/40475616/saturday-night-live-has-a-donald-trump-problem
Watching a parody of the president’s response to Puerto Rico, as the real response does untold harm, just feels counterproductive.share
The "Trump segments" on SNL, usually done in the intro sketch before the credits, have become predictable and repetitious...just like everything else done on SNL for nearly a decade now. And to just present Trump as a buffoonish vulgarian seems like overkill since that's really how he is anyway, hardly brilliant and incisive comedy writing.
shareAnd how long has it been since the show offered up any repeatable catch phrases?(Tiring though they eventually became):
I'm Chevy Chase...and you're not.
Telegram. Candygram.
Cheesebugga, cheesebugga
We are two wild and crazy guys
Never mind.
Baseball has been a berry, berry good ...to me.
Yeah...that's the ticket!
You look MAHVELOUS. ("And I know you'd rather look good than feel good, if you know what I mean.")
Ve chust vant ....to pump you UP! (Listen to me now and believe me later, girlieman)
Could it be...Satan?!
Etc
SNL has always had a political component and always follows the Presidency, but it had an obligation to provide wide-ranging comedy and catch phrases as well.
I think SNL is now rather part of an ongoing (and interestingly corporate-sponsored) "resistance" movement of comedy that has sucked in all broadcast and cable talk shows into the same ongoing political attack squad. The suits allow this to occur because politics = ratings = money.
But was once comedy is pretty much gone.
And the world gets more serious all the time, because nothing is SUPPOSED to be funny anymore. Nothing is allowed to be.