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Sunday, March 05, 2017

Donald Trump teleprompter "words all in a row"

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Kate McKinnon nailed it- "words said all in a row", about Donald Trump's made for TV, Teleprompter recital as talented Kate McKinnon mocks Sessions as Forrest Gump On 'SNL'
Although media were given a cunning offer to lay off the Donald Trump "Teleprompter recital" read before a joint session of Congress on February 28th, the fact is, the POTUS45  narrative was over-rehearsed and a  made for TV reality gig. 

Trump practiced shifting his tone from the dark, searing approach of his previous big speeches to the nation.

Various news feeds report that Reince Priebus made a deal about the White House not using the label "fake news", in a quasi "word exchange" for media laying off the Trump amateur hour recital.

In fact, the only accurate report provided by the media in a review of the "read before Congress", was from Kate McKinnon on the reliable news source performance given, on March 5th, "Saturday Night Live".  In a skit where McKinnon brilliantly mocks being Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a "Forrest Gump" skit, she tells her bus stop companion about the Trump recital. 
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Kate McKinnon, a skit about the Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his Russian communications, "at the bus stop", in a spoof of "Forrest Gump" - another brilliant parody! 
"Run Jeff, run...."

In fact, Trump was supposed to set a new tone for the White House, because, "Folks was thrilled on account of it was real words in a row for a whole hour," quipped McKinnon, speaking farcically, as a realistic "Sessions". Well, the new tone is providing a hilarious set up for rollicking, comedy especially when talent like Kate McKinnon can portray characters in the White House parody.

Kate McKinnon, as one Twitterzin posted during her SNL performance, "Is a national treasure!".

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Monday, November 21, 2016

Get ready for non-stop parody as Saturday Night Live goes viral

Although the Donald Trump characterization by Alec Baldwin is brilliant, the line with the most relevance is when the Vice-President to be Mike Pence enters the skit and he's told, "you will keep me from being impeached".  So true.

Saturday Night Live: November 19th episode’s cold open features Mr. Baldwin portraying Mr. Trump as stunned and unprepared for the reality of being president. 
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Alec Baldwin characterized "Donald Trump" in SNL skits

In the SNL skit, Trump meets with various figures, including Kate McKinnon’s Kellyanne Conway, a campaign staffer from coal country and a general, who is eager to hear about the president-elect’s secret plan to defeat ISIS. After the general leaves, Mr. Trump promptly begins searching online for “What is Isis?” Mr. Trump proceeds to renege on assorted campaign promises, including repealing Obamacare, deporting illegal immigrants and creating coal-mining jobs.

Salient points made in this well acted skit:

1.  Donald Trump will never be a popular American leader.
2.  KellyAnne Conway must live with the consequences of her ambitious campaign undertaking (sic).
3.  Mike Pence will be running the Trump administration

Meanwhile, in the final 2016 vote analysis, Secretary Hillary Clinton continues to increase her popular vote margin over Donald Trump and in the total vote count, she won the election for President of the United States.  Electoral College alert.

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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Tribute live from New York- It's Saturday Night!

Kate McKinnon raises up the political message and sends us to a spiritual place.
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Perhaps this flawless rendition by Kate McKinnon will be the new "We shall overcome" mantra.

(CNN)Instead of showing a quarreling Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton as they had done for most of the season, the opening for "Saturday Night Live" struck a more somber note.

McKinnon, dressed as her Clinton character in a cream pantsuit, played the piano and sang Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
Indeed, as USAToday wrote, the cold SNL open served both as a moment of solidarity with those rocked by the election’s outcome and as tribute to Cohen, the virtuosic songwriter, who died earlier this week.

Cohen, the highly-respected artist known for his poetic and lyrical music, died earlier this week.

McKinnon sang the entire song to a quiet audience.

After finishing the song, she turned to the camera with watery eyes and said: "I'm not giving up. And neither should you. And live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"
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The episode followed a tumultuous post election week that has seen protests in multiple cities nationwide against President-elect Donald Trump.

In Saturday's episode, there were neither Trump jokes nor did Alec Baldwin make an appearance.

The show's more solemn opening struck a chord on Twitter.
Film critic Richard Roeper tweeted that McKinnon "is a superhero with the power to stop us in our tracks."

"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian recording artist Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success, the song found greater popular acclaim through a recording by John Cale, which inspired a recording by Jeff Buckley. It is the subject of the 2012 book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of 'Hallelujah' by Alan Light.[1]

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