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Please, SNL: Don't mock Trump voter fraud witness Melissa Carone

posted 3 years ago by TMC-4 (19449)
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/melissa-carone-michigan-testimony-not-funny.html

Carone immediately became an internet sensation, drawing comparisons to SNL and Cecily Strong's "The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation with at a Party," when a clip of her appearing to be drunk while testifying for the Trump campaign on Wednesday went viral. "A major character had sprung fully formed onto the national stage and Twitter roared to life with casting ideas for the inevitable Saturday Night Live sketch—proving, among other things, that we still think it’s possible to satirize this moment," says Lili Loofbourow. "It’s not. Carone is the slurring but concentrated version of a particular kind of American “authenticity” whose very mockability is its potency: a type as confident as it is ignorant, so righteous and blustery and simultaneously sincere and unhampered by facts or deference that it makes terrific TV. Announcing that she could go to jail for lying and had been forced to get rid of her social media because of harassment by Democrats, the IT contractor was on social media tweeting less than a day later. She’d lied about lying, but that was sort of beside the point: Carone is a crank, and no one expects cranks to be consistent. And she wasn’t alone." Loofbourow adds: "The fact is we’re in a crank pandemic and there’s no vaccine. Judging by the overnight sensation she’s become, Carone’s is a form of brashness Americans still don’t have much resistance toward. Trumpian in an extremely obvious and enthusiastic way, either by coincidence or design, she’s causing a response that echoes the way so many responded to Trump before he won the highest office in the land: laughing him off and looking forward to SNL."

[–] Jes' Sayin' (5990) 3 years ago

The real person was funnier than the sketch.

I wonder who inspired the original SNL character.

[–] TMC-4 (19449) 3 years ago

Cecily Strong's SNL Trump voter fraud witness portrayal was inevitable, but still a bad idea

https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/snl-cold-open-michigan-voter-fraud-strong-carone-mckinnon-giuliani.html

From the moment Trump voter fraud witness Melissa Carone went viral last week, it was obvious that SNL was going to have Strong impersonate her in a sketch since Carone reminded many of Strong's “Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With at a Party” character. "Trying to stop Saturday Night Live from putting Cecily Strong in the cold open as the role of Carone was as futile and absurd as commanding the moon or the tides," says Matthew Dessem. That's why Slate's Lili Loofbourow warned that SNL, with its massive platform, shouldn't validate voter fraud "cranks" like Carone, who was recently on probation for harassing her ex-boyfriend. "The fact is we’re in a crank pandemic and there’s no vaccine," wrote Loofbourow. "Judging by the overnight sensation she’s become, Carone’s is a form of brashness Americans still don’t have much resistance toward. Trumpian in an extremely obvious and enthusiastic way, either by coincidence or design, she’s causing a response that echoes the way so many responded to Trump before he won the highest office in the land: laughing him off and looking forward to SNL." Dessem adds: "It is always a delight to watch Cecily Strong play someone aggressively unpleasant, even when it’s bad for America. On the other hand, the way this Saturday Night Live sketch became a historical inevitability in a matter of days was yet another reminder that we’re nothing but puppets dancing on History’s strings, frog legs twitching when the current hits, pulled helplessly through time by forces we can neither name nor understand, and haven’t we already been through enough this year?"

[–] B1cKsurN (14911) 3 years ago

Leftwing comedy is dead. They killed it with TDS.

[–] davebuffalo (3033) 3 years ago

Please learn to break up your responses into ... PARAGRAPHS.

See what I did there above, I pressed the "Carriage Return" or otherwise known as the "Enter" key. What it does, is it gives some white space between sentences. Subconsciously, it also allows your reader to take a breath. When you don't include these (like what you did above), your writings look like ramblings, and it appears as one huge-ass TL;DR, not-going-to-read-this, mess.

Thank you.

[–] TMC-4 (19449) 3 years ago

Is this BETTER!!!? :/ (I didn't know that this was suddenly English comprehension class)

From the moment Trump voter fraud witness Melissa Carone went viral last week, it was obvious that SNL was going to have Strong impersonate her in a sketch since Carone reminded many of Strong's “Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With at a Party” character. "Trying to stop Saturday Night Live from putting Cecily Strong in the cold open as the role of Carone was as futile and absurd as commanding the moon or the tides," says Matthew Dessem.

That's why Slate's Lili Loofbourow warned that SNL, with its massive platform, shouldn't validate voter fraud "cranks" like Carone, who was recently on probation for harassing her ex-boyfriend. "The fact is we’re in a crank pandemic and there’s no vaccine," wrote Loofbourow. "Judging by the overnight sensation she’s become, Carone’s is a form of brashness Americans still don’t have much resistance toward. Trumpian in an extremely obvious and enthusiastic way, either by coincidence or design, she’s causing a response that echoes the way so many responded to Trump before he won the highest office in the land: laughing him off and looking forward to SNL."

Dessem adds: "It is always a delight to watch Cecily Strong play someone aggressively unpleasant, even when it’s bad for America. On the other hand, the way this Saturday Night Live sketch became a historical inevitability in a matter of days was yet another reminder that we’re nothing but puppets dancing on History’s strings, frog legs twitching when the current hits, pulled helplessly through time by forces we can neither name nor understand, and haven’t we already been through enough this year?"

[–] davebuffalo (3033) 3 years ago

Much better! Honestly, when I see a huge, single paragraph like that, it's intimidating and I simply refuse to read it. I took Technical Writing in college and learned that "white space", whether in print or on a computer screen, is the best trick to getting your material read. The other trick is a 1-2 sentence EXECUTIVE SUMMARY at the top, for those without the time to read all the details.

I've updated your grade from a C to an A, congratulations.

I did watch the SNL cold open. I am totally unfamiliar with the Michigan hearings though, so I couldn't really relate. I do like Cecily Strong, regardless.