Calling SNL Unfunny and Biased is Incomplete.
It's Also Racist.

Oh yeah, I forgot, that "Jewelry Party" sketch that just attacked traditionalists had no jokes in it... except for a Step-n-Fetchit version of a Latina character.

I don't know if I'd call this racist or not, but I know SNL would call it racist were it to come from anyone else but SNL.

More than racist, it's hack. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has been goofing on this hack sort of impression forever. Dee, an aspiring but not particularly funny comedienne, has been working on her "characters" for years; almost all of them are just Bad Hack Ethnic Stereotypes.

One of them was Dee's "Crazy Patty" Irish stereotype, which Charlie did not find funny at all, so he improved upon it with some witty physical comedy.

Another, embedded below, was a hack Latina stereotype -- "Martina Martinez" -- which Dee explicitly says they'll just love on Saturday Night Live.

The show intended this to show that Dee was deluded; she was so delusional about her talent that she thought a hack stereotype impression would wow 'em at SNL.

Joke's on Always Sunny, though. This sort of thing plays at 30 Rock.

Oh, and speaking of atrocious comedy.

Left-leaning, pro-state comedians have a strange relationship with political correctness. On one hand, they agree with the rules of PC, and will use those rules viciously to attack the butts of their jokes, imposing a very high cost on social errancy.

On the other hand, they value their own freedom to say outrageous things and occasionally transgress the zero-tolerance rules they otherwise enforce on others.

I would encourage them to think clearly about what kind of regime -- with rules applying to all, not just applying to their targets -- they want to personally live beneath.

posted by Ace at 05:15 PM

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