Comedy tonight!
Saturday Night Live is on hiatus, so the clowns in Washington are producing a summer replacement called The Trump Administration. Live television has all sorts of problems but these people are much better at it than the ones involved in the All In the Family/Jeffersons stunt on Wednesday. For one thing, the writing is pee-your-pants funny.
Tuesday the always reliable Ben Carson starred in a sketch with Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) asking him about REOs (short for "real estate owned," meaning a property has gone to foreclosure. "Oreos?" the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development responded. Straight-woman Porter patiently explained the term but he clearly didn't get it until he was safely back in his office and someone drew him a picture. Then he sent a snide note and a package of cookies to the Congresswoman. His staff giggled and whispered but never told him that "Oreo cookie" is a derogatory term for someone who is "black on the outside, white on the inside." (See Tom, Uncle.)
Different staff people pointed out that after only two and a half years, Carson is still learning about his job. After all, it's not brain surgery.
Next up was "Infrastructure Week Kabuki," based on the samurai character played long ago by John Belushi. In this recurring bit, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi go to the White House to discuss desperately needed repairs to bridges, dams, roads and tunnels, and Trump finds an excuse to yell at them and waddle out. It turns out that he does not like having his crimes investigated by anyone except Devin Nunes and Lindsey Graham, and refuses to do any presidenting until the "harassment" stops. Then he goes out in the yard and tells everybody how badly they treat him for his NO COLLUSION, and how much money Robert Mueller has spent (considerably less than he has confiscated from Paul Manafort alone), and all about the Democrats' lack of "achomplishments." (He brought along a comedy prop in the form of a "note to self," and by four o'clock this one had been added to "wire tapps," "unpresidented," and the still-mysterious "covfefe.")
Speaker Pelosi then pulled her velvet glove over her iron fist and held her own press conference, expressing grandmotherly concern for Trump's obvious derangement and promising to pray for him and for America. The response was predictably batshit. He brought out some of his handmaidens and a little snit called Gidney Cloyd or some such, and one by one they testified to the statesmanlike serenity of the "very stable genius." Sensing that this would not work, someone monkeyed with a recording of a Pelosi speech to make her seem to be slurring and posted it on the unmediated social media, while Trump insisted that "she's lost it" and she just doesn't understand what's going on, being a woman and all. By nightfall, "I call her Nancy" had become "Crazy Nancy" who had probably contracted brain disease/Parkinson's/bad magumbo from Hillary Clinton.
Only one comedian could follow that: Rudolph Giuliani! Apparently Trump Neologism Psychosis is catching, because Mayor 9/11 tweeted: "ivesssapology for a video which is allegedly is a caricature of an otherwise halting speech pattern. she should first stop and apologize for saying the President needs an intervention." He types as good as he talks, but we won't get the full joyous effect until he goes on the Sunday shows to scold "people who live in glath houtheth…" Besides, Trump is way past an intervention. At this point, it would be like writing a parking ticket for David Berkowitz.
This week guest host Robert Mueller testifies in a private session of the House Judiciary Committee. The comic possibilities are endless. Lorne Michaels needs to step up his game.
NB: I am told that Gidney and Cloyd were moon men on "Rocky and Bullwinkle." The guy in the White House is presumably someone else.
Tuesday the always reliable Ben Carson starred in a sketch with Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) asking him about REOs (short for "real estate owned," meaning a property has gone to foreclosure. "Oreos?" the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development responded. Straight-woman Porter patiently explained the term but he clearly didn't get it until he was safely back in his office and someone drew him a picture. Then he sent a snide note and a package of cookies to the Congresswoman. His staff giggled and whispered but never told him that "Oreo cookie" is a derogatory term for someone who is "black on the outside, white on the inside." (See Tom, Uncle.)
Different staff people pointed out that after only two and a half years, Carson is still learning about his job. After all, it's not brain surgery.
Next up was "Infrastructure Week Kabuki," based on the samurai character played long ago by John Belushi. In this recurring bit, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi go to the White House to discuss desperately needed repairs to bridges, dams, roads and tunnels, and Trump finds an excuse to yell at them and waddle out. It turns out that he does not like having his crimes investigated by anyone except Devin Nunes and Lindsey Graham, and refuses to do any presidenting until the "harassment" stops. Then he goes out in the yard and tells everybody how badly they treat him for his NO COLLUSION, and how much money Robert Mueller has spent (considerably less than he has confiscated from Paul Manafort alone), and all about the Democrats' lack of "achomplishments." (He brought along a comedy prop in the form of a "note to self," and by four o'clock this one had been added to "wire tapps," "unpresidented," and the still-mysterious "covfefe.")
Speaker Pelosi then pulled her velvet glove over her iron fist and held her own press conference, expressing grandmotherly concern for Trump's obvious derangement and promising to pray for him and for America. The response was predictably batshit. He brought out some of his handmaidens and a little snit called Gidney Cloyd or some such, and one by one they testified to the statesmanlike serenity of the "very stable genius." Sensing that this would not work, someone monkeyed with a recording of a Pelosi speech to make her seem to be slurring and posted it on the unmediated social media, while Trump insisted that "she's lost it" and she just doesn't understand what's going on, being a woman and all. By nightfall, "I call her Nancy" had become "Crazy Nancy" who had probably contracted brain disease/Parkinson's/bad magumbo from Hillary Clinton.
Only one comedian could follow that: Rudolph Giuliani! Apparently Trump Neologism Psychosis is catching, because Mayor 9/11 tweeted: "ivesssapology for a video which is allegedly is a caricature of an otherwise halting speech pattern. she should first stop and apologize for saying the President needs an intervention." He types as good as he talks, but we won't get the full joyous effect until he goes on the Sunday shows to scold "people who live in glath houtheth…" Besides, Trump is way past an intervention. At this point, it would be like writing a parking ticket for David Berkowitz.
This week guest host Robert Mueller testifies in a private session of the House Judiciary Committee. The comic possibilities are endless. Lorne Michaels needs to step up his game.
NB: I am told that Gidney and Cloyd were moon men on "Rocky and Bullwinkle." The guy in the White House is presumably someone else.
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