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Posted Nov 18th 2009 8:08PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Saturday Night Live, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Here's a shocker: something from Sarah Palin's memoir that hasn't been disputed.
Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers confirmed a claim made by the former Republican VP candidate that
she asked the writers to remove a rather ribald joke from Amy Poehler's rap performance that referenced the phrase "drill, baby, drill" during
her appearance on the show last year.
The full joke went, "When we're in Wascilla (sic), it's chill, baby, chilla/In the bedroom with Todd, it's drill, baby, drilla." That's weird, Take out the "with Todd" and you've got an exact quote from Levi Johnston's MySpace page (that joke so would have killed in 2008).
Posted Jul 17th 2009 2:03PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, Awards, Emmys, Reality-Free
Tina Fey's surprise return to
Saturday Night Live as
Sarah Palin was one of the ten greatest TV moments of 2008 (and quite possibly the decade, the century, the millennium and the eon).
So it's no surprise that Fey's name and show
30 Rock came up so many times in the recent list of Emmy nods. I'm no longer convinced that she's a woman. I'm convinced she's an experimental humanoid prototype designed by studio executives solely to win awards like Tom Hanks (aka "Project Red Shoe").
It's also no surprise that one of the two acting nods she scored included
her Palin performance on SNL.
Continue reading Tina Fey's Sarah Palin earns a big 'You betcha' from the Emmy people
Posted Jun 28th 2009 9:03AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Not only did the
"Fire David Letterman" crowd completely fail at their attempt to oust the late night host from his desk chair, but they actually helped him.
That makes them the least successful protest effort since 1977's memorable campaign to
"Keep Pies Away from Anita Bryant." I believe it had something to do with preventing the spread of diabetes.
Variety reports that Letterman surpassed
The Tonight Show in the ratings for the first time in nearly three-and-a-half years while the whole Palin family "Jokegate" debacle was still slowly being scraped off the fan.
Continue reading Letterman has the last laugh on Palin's "Jokegate"
Posted Jun 16th 2009 2:01PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
A lot of dissecting and exploratory surgery has been done on the jokes that David Letterman made about the Palin family. Even after
Dave apologized and
Palin accepted, people still want to perform a comedy autopsy to figure out what Dave's intent was and why Palin was so vocal in her reaction to it.
The problem is it's an unnecessary surgery and it fails to attack the root of the problem while the real cancer spreads like a California wildfire. E.B. White once said about such procedures that, "
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it." The only reason this frog hasn't died is because someone wants to keep it alive and no one has dared to touch the heart.
This is the side I will debate in the never-ending Letterman vs. Palin "Joke-gate" controversy while our very own John Scott Lewinski will offer a rebuttal later in the day that a public figure's children should always be off-limits.
Continue reading Point/Counterpoint: Letterman's joke about the Palins was just that
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