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2008 Candidates' Confessions [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 9:59 PM on June 8, 2007.


Saturday Night Live parodies the many skeletons in the 2008 candidates' closets.
2008 Candidate Confessions

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In uproarious edition of Saturday Night Live's "TV Funhouse", candidates like Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani and Bill Richardson divulge all their deepest, darkest secrets. Some you know, some you'll wish you didn't.

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Tagged as: clinton, richardson, giuliani, obama, saturday night live, election08

Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Wow, that was really bad. No wonder no one watches SNL anymore.
Posted by: doinaheckuvajob on Jun 8, 2007 10:26 PM   
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Anybody heard of the Daily Show or Stephen Colbert? They actually have, you know, writers, and um comedians. They use stuff like what's called irony, satire, lampooning, and insightful sarcasm to create what are known as jokes.

This was so bad it was truly painful.

You know if you take, say 9 wives for Romney, or a frozen look on Hillary's face, that is not quite yet a joke, it is merely the most obvious thing anyone could ever think of. Then you add a loud laugh track to indicate there was a haha joke. Honestly, this is like waiting in a long line inside a sweaty, hot and smelly stadium men's bathroom while the first person in line does nothing but make farting noises and laugh hysterically to himself while everyone is waiting desperately to use the facilities.

If Carrot Top or Sam Kinison's ghost had recited this crap verbatim, it would have had a tiny chance of being funny. You know, the absurd factor with incongrous delivery, but this straight up rendition of the most obvious bad jokes reeks.

Are the writers for SNL 9 years old of age?

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Canned Laughter? Please.
Posted by: scajomar on Jun 9, 2007 2:24 PM   
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Who thought this lame piece of animation would benefit from adding a laugh track? Don't insult my intelligence. I don't watch TV sitcoms because of the persistent use of this outdated and overused electronic sweetening. Take a peek at The Simpsons or South Park which do not use laugh tracks but which allow the humor to hit where it should: in the viewer's sense of what's funny. That will instruct the person who cobbled this piece together why a laugh track is not needed if something is truly humorous.

Look, if you're going to create entertainment for the Left, remember: the Left is smarter than the Right. The Left doesn't need to be told where to laugh, and the Right lives to be told when and where it should do anything,, not just when to laugh.

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good stuff
Posted by: spanky on Jun 9, 2007 4:30 PM   
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SNL is usually boring but this had me laughing.

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» RE: good stuff Posted by: lotus23
» RE: good stuff Posted by: Wexler
i can't believe SNL is still on the air
Posted by: andrewstromotich on Jun 10, 2007 9:10 AM   
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wake me up when it's over

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not that bad
Posted by: Alec Freeman on Jun 11, 2007 2:40 AM   
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The caricature of Senator Clinton was pretty good.

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uproarious ???
Posted by: Joekanan on Jun 12, 2007 1:44 PM   
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Didn't even crack a smile at this one.

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