God love our millennials. They know everything and are quick to tell everyone else that they are pure of heart and that you are a racist, homophobic, earth-killing job hoarder. SNL knows what's up. We are different and it is amusing. Laugh at life. As for the inescapable condition of DWB, I defer to the timeworn wisdom of Chris Rock. As for you nosy race-baiting hipsters, stop pretending to be an authority on matters you can't possibly understand. And take off that stupid hat, scruffy hipster. Real men in the 40s wore those with style and didn't have to use their mom's credit card to buy them.
Tag: sketch comedy
Maya mentoring
Maya Angelou died this week at her home in North Carolina. She was 86. She was world famous for her writings but few recall her riveting TV appearance on this episode of The Richard Pryor Show in 1977. Maya, as always, delivered a powerful social commentary that is still relevant today.
Macho Sochi
Just days before the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, NBC's Saturday Night Live parodied Russia'a anti-gay political structure by offering Heterosexual Figure Skating. Pretty hilarious editorializing, and Papa John's wound up with an inadvertent ad campaign in the show's opening sketch. More on this episode of SNL starring Jonah Hill is here. The opening monologue shown below features a cameo by Leonardo DiCaprio. The oddest offering? A scene involving sensitive hit men.