SNL Skewers Al Sharpton and His MSNBC Show
- Posted on December 11, 2011 at 7:46am by
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Saturday Night Live mocked Al Sharpton and his “Politics Nation” MSNBC show, with cast member Keenan Thompson channeling several of Sharpton’s more outrageous moments and his verbose — and not altogether accurate — speaking style.
“President Obama has been pushing this payroll tax hollaback — excuse me, tax holiday!” Sharpton said. “Which has been helping middle class folks up and down America and these Republicans now talking about how it’s bad for this and that and the other. Here’s my question — do these people have rocks in their heads?”
Taking on Sharpton’s most recent MSNBC ad, he later asked whether Republicans are Nazis — blueberry pie-stealing Nazis.
“When I was little, we were playing catch the Nazi in the backyard,” he said. “We put a blueberry pie in a box and the Nazi would come around and try to get it. Isn’t that what the Republicans are trying to do, steal our pie?…Are Republicans Nazis trying to blueberrry steal pie out the box?”
The skit ended with another Sharptonism — the host’s infamous teleprompter flub over the summer, which Thompson repeated nearly word-for-word.
“For push back we much…we must…and we will much…about that…be committed…talk to you,” he said.
Watch the clip below, via NBC:
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Comments (180)
Rodster
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:49amThat initiation of Sharpton is right up there with Frank Calendo doing John Madden. I still can’t believe a street hustler like that is in national government representing people and hosting a TV show.
Oh USA, how the mighty have fallen.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:01amTHAT was the first SNL skit that made me laugh in many many years. I must admit though. The only SNL I ever watch anymore is clips on the Blaze. SNL SUCKS!!!
Report Post »Tear Em Up
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:22amThat kid has always been funny. When he was on the Nickelodeon show he always had my kids laughing….
http://traffic.libsyn.com/mikeleeandterrymartin/Number_93_Dec._10th._2011.mp3
Report Post »db321
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:59amKnee slapping material is out there, but SNL and the rest of the Liberal talk show choose to ignore it. Instead they are turning over pebbles looking for material, while passing on the rocks and boulders under their noses.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 11:02amHey – up until now he has been getting away with not paying taxes and claiming his home as his church. The only problem with this is if he gets away with it the whole country will do it. Think – Jim and Tammy Baker. I think Jim Baker is still in prison. The Rev. Al might get out of it with a pardon from obama. Obama now has 5 pages already with those to be pardoned. On page 3 he has Biden and his own name – this is a first.
Report Post »Jinglebob
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:59pmThe Token Show staring their resident token.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 1:26pmSharpton is a charlatan and a clown. Perfect for television theatrics. Piss poor for anything else.
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 3:09pmThat was about a good as Paul Shanklin’s imitation of Al Sharloton.
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 3:16pmNo one I know watches SNL UNLESS they are drunk, UNLESS there is nothing else on, and UNLESS they are a useful idiot, WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH NO ONE.
Since SNL became so leftist, I STOPPED WATCHING and that has been about 10+ years now. their skits are NOT funny SINCE the days of Bill Murray and Chevy Chase. IN FACT, SNL IS VERY SICK.
Report Post »spotcoon
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 3:32pmOur modern day “Kingfish of the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge”.
Report Post »toto
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 3:40pmHe’s a smart huckster, but intellectually dumber than a box of rocks.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 4:03pmREVY?
PAY your TAXES!!!!!!!!!!
what a low rent guy Sharpo is
Is it true his kids go to Princeton???
HOW does he pay for that?
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 4:06pmObummer is Shaptons, “My most favwet Pwezidnt …evah” !!
Report Post »Very hard to say it the way He does. and people actually watch him ??
Good Gawd !!!
John 1776
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 4:45pmOh, that wasn’t really Sharpton? Fooled me!
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 4:55pmNo surprise at all ..We are living in the world of make believe today …Just daydream the craziest thing you can …It will happen and show up in the news in short order ..Just go back …It all started 9/11 …So our country is hit with a decapitation strike by Muslims …Seven years latter we have a president ..Who changed his name to Barrack Hussein Obama …Now on 9/12 if someone would have said …O…The next president is going to have a Muslim name ..You would have said they were crazy….But hey that’s what we got …And the list grows each day …
Report Post »thetreyman
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 5:16pmresist we much!
Report Post »palerider54
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:00pmI quit watching anything with Sharpton, Reed, Peolsi or Obama in it.
Got tired of having to buy new TV sets after shooting several rounds into the old set.
Report Post »Clara88
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:12pmPlease support Gov Rick Perry for President…a conservative AND a veteran..GOD BLESS
Report Post »http://www.rickperry.org/
Clara88
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:21pmGov. Rick Perry…
“The idea this president now, with Iran getting one of our predator drones in their possession, and he had opportunities — he had two choices. Actually, he had three. He chose the worse. And those two opportunities he had was to either retrieve that drone or to destroy it. And he did the worst of the three. And he did absolutely nothing. And the Russians and the Chinese will have our highly technical equipment now. This president IS the problem,” Perry said at the ABC News debate in Des Moines, Iowa
Report Post »jzs
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:10pmKind of funny but a little too true. I‘m probably not the only person on the left that wishes Al Sharpton and Lawrence O’Donnell would get off the air. They are both poor representatives of the left wing.
Report Post »Clara88
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:38pmVeterans are supporting a VETERAN….Gov Rick Perry
Report Post »Our military deserves a Commander In Chief they can be PROUD of and RESPECT
GOD BLESS OUR BRAVE MILITARY AND OUR BELOVED BRAVE VETERANS
http://www.rickperry.org/veterans/
RepubliCorp
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:17pmSPOTCOON………good one but will anyone get it?
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:27pmNasty, unqualified man good for nothing…
Report Post »cosette
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:56pm@JZS- You’re correct, Jesse Jackson and Ed Schultz better represent your political ideology.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 9:44amI wish SNL would die already……the shows been dead for years no one bothered to tell them or bury the effin corpse.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:48amWhen MSdnc tries to remove sharpton he will no doubt play the racism card in the lawsuit where he attempts to take over the ownership of the company.
Report Post »LiveNation
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:01amHow do you think he got there?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:42pmTwo words describe Sharpton : complete Moron…
Report Post »cosette
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 11:00pmStep n’ fetchit
Report Post »BobtheMoron
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:46amAn idiot potraying an idiot.
Report Post »Southernsoul
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:45amUmmm, is there a little dissension amoung the troops?
Report Post »rukdnme13
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:36amI watch the rev. about 5 mins. a week, that guy nailed him, dead on!
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:16amShows you how hard up MSNBC is when they give Al Sharpton his own show. Dear Al, Jesse and the CBC(Congressional Black Caucus) do much more harm to the Black Community and Black America than good, which is nominal at best. Between their hyper racism, and their gimme, gimme policies promoted by Obama and his cronies, ain’t much for improvement there, but then, that’s kinda the policy of the Dumocrat Party. Tell the darkies they love em, drop them piddly crumbs periodically and keep them where they want them – under their thumb, otherwise known as the plantation. Same as prior to the Civil War, but now it’s a more disguised masquerade. Hopefully one day Black America will wake up to their prison camp status within the Democratic Party, tell them to shove it, be liberated, get a new life and jump on board the soon to be reformed Republican Party, if there still is one after 2012.
Report Post »Side note: still needs to be a major revamping of the GOP, not with respect to opportunity for the Black American, because that is already there, but with respect to what the Hell the Republican Party stands for. It is profoundly “dump the RINO” time and the spineless leadership that neither has the balls to stand up and do what’s right, nor the intestinal fortitude to confront Obama and carry things through to the end.
Rob
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:28amI one is watching football, SNL, Dancing with the Stars, etc., when one is young… I understand. BUT GROW UP!
Report Post »TalonTed
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:56am@ROB: Your comment is incomprehensible. In case that word is too big, it means that no one can understand it, and it appears to be coming from someone who is demented (got a screw loose upstairs).
Report Post »Scooder
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:31amTeleprompter malfunction??
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:40amWe all much grow up and committed to save blueberry pie from Nazis in box.
We is the people!!
Report Post »fishstx777
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 1:20pm@rob that is exactly how Sharpton speaks, you nailed it .Iza dont thinks@ taloned comprehensibles youre uncomprehensibles.
Report Post »Pat Alexander
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:15amKeenan is funny. A lot of talent there. He really gets into these characters. He had Sharpton down pat.
Report Post »jas0707
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:14amNo question but MSNBC targets and is designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator, the govt dependent, ignorant and naive.
Report Post »MirabellaDesign
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:02amPerhaps I am colorblind but Keenan makes a better Judge Napoitano than an Al Sharpton… Thats Napalitano’s Hair!
Report Post »CakeNCircus
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:35pmI think you’re right! That must make him Cousin Keenan!
Report Post »Guttersmack
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:56amWhy is SNL advertising for their sister channel MSNBC? Is this an attempt to boost their ratings? Is a big (special) ED Shultz promo scheduled for next week….maybe Ed isn’t influential enough to qualify for an SNL promo. He is on the same intellectual level as Sharpton though. There is so much on that “news” channel that is quality SNL material. Does SNL get to write off the production of those skits as advertising cost? Now that I am getting up from the John, this no longer interests me…. No longer relevant in my life I guess
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:57pmDid you even read the article or watch the video?
Report Post »Donald
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:50amSharpton and MSNBC are perfect for each other….
Report Post »Peas and Carrots….
GeorgieJo
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:06amRevySharpo is a JOKE all in himself.
Report Post »badbarber54
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 6:45pmGrits and Greens
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:47amThis was great! I never watch SNL (due to language, content, intent!), but I could really appreciate this clip–it was SO, SO (rev?) Sharpton!
When I had a TV, I would periodically tune into MSNBC for two reasons, “Know thine enemy”! and, THE LAUGHS! The hosts of so many of the shows there BELIEVE their guests, and worse, they BELIEVE THEMSELVES! Sharpton is a bully, and so out of touch with people who know what “time” it is that he is keeping the “race fight” going for his OWN glory!
To use Al’s much quoted special statement, “We must, much, about that, be committed. . . ,” TO THE TRUTH, as it has NO AGENDA! (unlike those such as Al Sharpton!).
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:47amSpot on!
Report Post »ProfessorClyde
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:37amDiversity at it’s best
Report Post »Beckaj
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:27amThe sad thing is that it was spot on.
Report Post »Beckaj
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:26amWill Sharpton call SNL racists?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:23amThe Congressional Black Caucus is probably already working on this one..
Report Post »chips1
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:27pmSNL finally played the ace of spades. Funny stuff.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 4:37pmI would bet money on it.
Report Post »freedomofspeech
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:20amI’ll stick to B.S. of A. SNL used to be funny in the 1970′s
Report Post »antrancher
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:42amI watched it faithfully when I was younger. You‘re right it isn’t funny anymore. Alec Baldwin was the first to ruin it for me.
Report Post »SIG40ONDAHIP
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:19amAl Sharpton has his on show?? wow ! that alone is hilarious
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:13amIt would be funny if it wasn’t true! I bet MSNBC is trying to replace the comedy channel. Because they sure can’t report the news.
Report Post »Exile
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:13amThat‘s the first time I’ve laughed at SNL since the days of Chris Farley. Then again, I’ve never seen Al “Interloper” Sharpton’s little show.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:07amI feel the countdown to the firing of “Rev.” Sharpton is in the works.
Nbc eating their own seems strange but the funny thing is that looks like his actual show not a goof.
Report Post »antrancher
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:43amThe rats are abandoning ship.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:56amThey will play hell firing Al Sharpton. I am afraid that they are stuck with him.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 1:03pmIf they fire Sharpton on the basis of his performance, credibility, and relevance, then they would have to fire everyone else that they employ who sits in front of a camera to be fair.
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:06am“are Republicans Nazis trying to blueberry steal pie out the box?”
HAHAHAHA
Al does not need SNL’s help poking fun at him. He is a walking parody, himself.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:06amWe don’t need Sat. Night Live to laugh at Al Sharpton his show is Sat Night Live 5 days a week.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:05amSNL and “Race Baiter Nation” MSNBC… one and the same..
Report Post »The only time I see it is when someone gives them free advertising.. and air space.
Miami
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:11amSNL hides behind “comedy” to push their hate
Report Post »DanielBurke
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:01amAccurate depiction of a man whose wrist size and IQ are the same number.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 8:09amIt didn’t look like a goof but the real show
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