Speaking of a vegetarian Thanksgiving, watch this kind of amazing turkey skit from SNL. It’s silly but also makes kind of a good point (especially after seeing that awful Sarah Palin video)

takepart to make vegetarian gravy this year and save the turkeys!! Because they are beautiful birds.

The election might be over but SNL goes on and while it might not be as funny as it was with Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin, the show is still pretty funny.  Politics wise, they opened with  Joe Biden skit to help all of us deal with the loss of Sarah Palin:

Joe’s pretty great, but he’s no Sarah. Alas

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So this election has drummed up lots and lots and lots of political humor. So what happens to all that McCain material and Obama observations come November 5th? Who knows, but if you live in NYC and need a nice dose of election humor before visiting the polls tomorrow check out The Last Chance Election Humor Show “Listen, Drink, Vent, and Hope” hosted by fabulous Jon Friedman (The Rejection Show). The show will feature some of NYC’s favorite writers and comedians gathering the night before the Election to perform their “election material” for the last time before it becomes WAY less relevant. Monday November 3rd 8PM The Slipper Room. 167 Orchard Street. Free! takepart and get ore info at http://www.rejectionshow.com

This weekend Saturday Night Live (hosted by Jon Hamm of Mad Men fame) focused it’s political energy on the Democrats.   Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin was nowhere in sight as we saw skits featuring Michelle and Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Bill Clinton.   Also, Ralph Nader, who is obviously not a Democrat but represents the left, made an appearance on Weekend Update (where Amy Poehler was noticeably absent because she was having a baby).

It’s interesting that as the news coverage turned to Obama’s lead, SNL turned to somewhat silly, less political skits about the Democrats.    I suppose the opening Biden skit was political, but Biden has gaffed so many times it actually isn’t that big of a deal.   Watch the opening below and then go after the jump for the hilarious Obama variety hour skit and some thoughts from Ralph Nader:

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You all know how I like my Keith Olbermann, but I think even those anti-Olbermann folks might find this clip interesting. Here Olbermann discusses the role of Saturday Night Live in the election and how their current skits are impacting the election:

The cigar box bit still cracks me up.   But I think Olbermann and his guest make some good points and provide a good historical context to the current batch of SNL skits.   Go after the jump to read TakePart’s SNL coverage.

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Saturday Night Live left a bad taste in my mouth last night.   I blogged earlier about how I really didn’t want SNL to let Sarah Palin on the program and lo and behold last night they did.   It was a bit weird and overall what makes me a bit sad is that all the Sarah Palin jokes they’ve been doing as of late, while funny, are actually vital in pointing out the flaws and reasons that Sarah Palin is unqualified for the position for which she is running.   Allowing Governor Palin on the show delegitimizes all of that and saws that all it was was humor - and I’m sorry but that isn’t true. Also confusing is Alec Baldwin’s appearance, he’s a very open Obama supporter and Huffington Post blogger.   He even wrote apiece called John McCain Is Not George Bush, Sarah Palin Is where he wrote ” Forget about the fact that Palin looks a lot like a really attractive TV star I know. Underneath all the Tina, she’s George.”

Well Alec, it’s hard to forget when you point it out on national television with the woman standing next to you.

What did you think about the SNL opening? 

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Mark Wahlberg was not pleased with October 4th SNL sketch called “Mark Wahlberg Talks To Animals”

Wahlberg told the NY Post:

Someone showed it to me on YouTube. It wasn’t like Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin, that’s for sure. And “Saturday Night Live” hasn’t been funny for a long time. They’ve asked me to do the show a ton of times. I used to watch it when Eddie Murphy was there and Joe Piscopo and Bill Murray. I don’t even know who’s on the show now.- NY Post

I can see why Walhberg didn’t take too kindly to the sketch (although I personally thought Sambergs impression was pretty impressive. Okay he made Marky Mark look sorta slow, but hilarious none the less. I mean it’s comedy, it’s all about good vibrations right?)

Well whether or not Wahlberg talks to animal, he does takepart with his Mark Wahlberg Foundation raising and distributing funds to youth service and enrichment programs. Check it out at http://markwahlbergyouthfoundation.com/

Phew.. Good news! I’ve been worried for awhile now that SNL would allow Sarah Palin on their show.   Rumors have been floating all over the web and there isn’t anything I want less than Sarah Palin on SNL.  It would make her seem more likable and also validate her as a political candidate - and the brilliant Tina Fey skits have been so wonderful in helping to invalidate her in some important ways.

Thankfully Tina Fey released this statement today, which doesn’t say anything about Palin on SNL but seems to suggest that she might be against it:

We’re gonna take it week by week. If she (Palin) wins, I’m done. I can’t do that for four years. And by ‘I’m done,’ I mean I’m leaving Earth.

I can’t imagine she would share the stage with someone whose winning the election would cause her to leave the earth.  

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Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton on last night’s SNL.

I laughed but also cried on the inside because most of things Fey’s Palin said weren’t funny things SNL writers wrote, they were things Sarah Palin has said.

Also, maybe more interesting than the Palin skit was the skit that followed the opening monologue. The skit was a high school style quiz show between a group of kids from public school and a group of home schooled Christian fundamentalists.    The skit wasn’t especially funny, but it was a pretty strong statement by the SNL crew.

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Nerve.com has assembled fifty of the best commercial parodies for you. Unfortunately, many of SNL’s most infamous are no longer available online, due to NBC’s copyright-enforcing blitz a while back. However the folks at Nerve did muster up lots of classics and plenty of favorites from Chappelle’s Show, MADtv, In Living Color and SCTV. Enjoy Nerve’s #4 pick ( and one of my favorites) Buhweet sings:
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And after you enjoy Nerve’s 50 takepart and check out mediamatters.org. Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.