Sunday Funday: SNL, Nancy Grace and Marijuana
This edition of Sunday Funday brings a Saturday Night Live sketch satirizing Nancy Grace and her tough stance on marijuana. Grace asks the tough question about marijuana legalization, “what about the babies?”
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Sunday Funday: SNL, Nancy Grace and Marijuana
This edition of Sunday Funday brings a Saturday Night Live sketch satirizing Nancy Grace and her tough stance on marijuana. Grace asks the tough question about marijuana legalization, “what about the babies?”
Sunday Funday: SNL’s Gettysburg Address Review
Last night,Saturday Night Live‘s Seth Meyers interviewed Jebidiah Atkinson on “Weekend Update.” Atkinson was on SNL to explain his negative review of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Atkinson’s appearance corresponds with the decision of The Patriot News, a Pennsylvania newspaper which retracted the review this week after publishing it 150 years ago.
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Sunday Funday: SNL’s Gettysburg Address Review
Last night,Saturday Night Live‘s Seth Meyers interviewed Jebidiah Atkinson on “Weekend Update.” Atkinson was on SNL to explain his negative review of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Atkinson’s appearance corresponds with the decision of The Patriot News, a Pennsylvania newspaper which retracted the review this week after publishing it 150 years ago.
SNL: “Accidental Racist” or Just Racist?
Country singer Brad Paisley and hip hop artist LL Cool J released a duet titled “Accidental Racist.” The song clumsily discusses racial prejudice in United States. Since the single’s release, Paisley and LL have been on a media offensive, defending the allegedly offensive track.
Last weekend, the duo stopped by Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update.”
I intended to post a link to the song. However, it seems that most of the videos on YouTube have been taken down, will be taken down, or of poor quality.
My take: the song is bold move, characteristic Paisley’s unconventional lyrics. While the song certainly seems created a dialogue about race, the song is not very good. It is a sort of ad hoc mash up musically. Moreover, the lyrics do not measure up to the gravity issue.
It reminds me of what I was told in a creative writing class I took in college. My professor recommended that new writers shouldn’t write about cancer. She advised that because cancer is such a powerful topic, it is difficult to pull of a story that is fresh and deft. Having listened to all six plus minutes of “Accidental Racist,” it strikes me as a story about America’s cancer that is neither fresh nor deft.