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SNL‘s Seth Meyers Does ’Meet the Press’: Trump Good for the Comedy Biz — Not for Country
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“If Donald Trump ran for President it would be the greatest thing for us. It would not be good for anybody else, but it would be excellent for us.”
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Comments (107)
Reality Shack
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:54pmThanks Mr. Myers for your insight, I constantly wonder how entertainers feels about how to run the country. SNL is pretty much like the rest of NBC, in the toilet. I’m sure Congress will have you up to the hill soon to get your gripping take on events.
Report Post »crcitizen
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:40pmWill NBC ever stop promoting Obamer, they will go sooooo low, a comedian on Meet the Press, course Meet the Press is more of a comedy show since Tim Russert passed, as is NBC MSNBC CBS, ABC, etc, I think the B in all of the call letters stand for Obamer, network, corporation, company
Report Post »Nunyabiz12
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:34pmSeth isn’t good for the Country or Comedy, he is the Joke.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 11:10pmWho is Seth? Anybody know?
Report Post »Miomia
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 12:40amSeth gives comedy a bad name-Seth.
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:29pmEveryone is entitled to an opinion – incude liberal SNL comics.
I stopped watching SNL a long time ago when it stopped being funny and became desperate.
I’ve watched some of the folks throw the racist shtick at Trump and thought they overracted or were just doing it to deter voters.
Surprise, there are a LOT of Black Men who play basketball. It’s a fact of life. One of them even does it when he should probably be working on our country’s problems. Oh, sorry, he does basketball, golf, vacations, apology tours and never ending campaign fund raisers. He’s been doing this stuff since before he got elected, after he was elected, and will do them in the future. Ordinarily I have no problem with a worker taking a break. In his case and given the situation we are in – sorry – he should be the 24/7 employee right now. He might get something right if he paid more attention.
Report Post »libwhacker
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:09pmSo the idiot we have now is good for the country no jobs high gas country going soacialist man lets have some more this is great!
Report Post »TexOkie
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:03pmWhat is it with the left and their obsession with comedians. No wonder this country is in such trouble. We have half the population getting their political advise from comedians.
Report Post »silquin11
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:00pmoh Yeah? Maybe this Obamafant does’nt know that all of them hasve turned our nation into an on going TRAGIC comedy. So if Trump is “good for comedy” he’s damn good for the country!
Report Post »curtmavi38
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:55pmOh let’s all step back a true patriot has spoken, after all he is on Saturday Night Live.meh
Report Post »eflow504
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:50pmthis is why i think trump is an obama plant. Allen West is saying all the same things as trump, but trump is getting all the left wing media. Allen West is calling obama out, and yet you don’t hear anything.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:49pmAss clown and anyone who gets their news from comedy is one too.
Report Post »eflow504
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:46pmso seth meyers a liberal says a “republican” is not good for the white house. why do these people think we care what they say? do they need to think this are they can’t live? besides trump could be an obama plant. Allen West is the way to go
Report Post »Dumbsht
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:44pmThe war begins….my money is on Trump….even if he just blocks for another reasonable candidate. Above all Obammy gotta go, or we become Muslm..
Report Post »smak
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:32pmIt would be good for comedy if Trump, Palin, Bachmann or Gingritch run for President.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:38pmhmmm
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:53pmI agree for the most part. But it would be good for our country if Allen West decided to run.
Report Post »HK-UMP_45ACP
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:21pmThe Donald Eats Alan West for breakfast – the guy has like ZERO NET WORTH. 0. Got it?
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 9:36pmSMAK
Report Post »I think Valerie Jarrett should run for Prez or how about AXEL-dennieROD?
suzpenn
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:32pmMyers’ opinion on Trump running for President is like listening to Barney Frank telling us that Fannie and Freddie are financially sound!
Report Post »EQUALIZER
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:25pmWlcome to Schumer and Friends Donald, care to donate? No one keeps score like Trump, watch out Seth Meyers!
Report Post »HK-UMP_45ACP
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:14pmYou are sooo true! There will be a world of hurt to pay now that The Donald is awoken!
Report Post »jmmjr49er
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:21pmSeth Meyer is like all writers at SNL – Spineless turds
Obama is an easy target and they wimped out in 2008 because they are liberal and voted for him. Limbaugh has been smacking Obama around for 3 years and is funny about it.
So, Seth remember John Belushi’s old line “Chicks aren’t funny.” When you realize that you will be funny.
Report Post »Love_Small_Dogs
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:34pmWell, now this is America; and because Saturday Night Live just keeps making so much money it means our people must ignore how much it sucks. SNL is an independent enterprise, just like the Atlas Shrugged project, whose head writer Ayn Rand died penniless using Medicare and Government disability to pay her medical bills.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:12pmTrump definitely took the brunt of the jokes. They did seem a bit mean spirited, but Trump shouldn’t be whining about it, he’s been known to be rude and nasty as well.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
HK-UMP_45ACP
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:18pmCan you prove what you said? When The Donald is being manly and strong it’s different because TRUTH is not jokes! Got it!
Report Post »JCAmerican
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:10pmWhat does Seth Meyers know about the economy?
Report Post »We Are Not Alone
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:19pmA comic entertaining a clown
Report Post »Kerby Clark
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 7:06pmHow about at least, Drill Baby Drill, or something common sense economy plan like that!
Report Post »bestartist
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 8:12pmOr anything else…..before the Blaze began posting all this I never heard of Seth Whatsits.
Report Post »The Blaze seems to fall all over itself to post ANYTHING or ANYONE who slams, ridicules, disses or dislikes Trump.
it’s getting really boring, I don’t care about comedians or SNL
GeorgieJo
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 11:02pmZero
Report Post »Mary M. Tebbe
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:07pmYawn…
Report Post »brewer55
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:03pmThis is nothing more than a diminishing NBC (news, prime time shows, etc) promoting itself in a venue that USED to be about real news. David Gregory isn’t fit to polish the shoes of his predecessor, Tim Russert. Also, way too many microphones in front of way too many celebs. They need to shut up and sing, act, do stand up, whatever…just no more political commentary.
Report Post »supertas
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:03pmSeth, get your weenie out of O’s booty. It’s embarrassing. Someone, who along with that ******* Fey, ran SNL into the ground is going to tell us who to vote for? Obama was funnier than you were, and he sucked.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:02pmObama has divided this nation like no one before him…..
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:36pmBy design, Sir, by design, unfortunately!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:01pmI thought the jokes he made were sometimes over the top in order to be mean, not funny.
Report Post »Love_Small_Dogs
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:22pmYou are correct – he was funny and 90 percent of the time he was right on target, but he did insult Mister Trumps hair by calling it a Fox, which was over the line. I thought he handed C-SPAN their head, which hurt Steve Sculley’s feelings. But NPR got what they deserved (Sharia, I heard!).
Like the Academy Awards, the guest host has to live up to the standards of the venue – The very funny impersonator guy who worked with president Bush in 2006 was razor tongued, too.
Report Post »HK-UMP_45ACP
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:16pmThey were very mean to The Donald, but very easygoing to everybody else. This was probably their plan right from the start, because of the 2012 elections.
Report Post »macombman
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:01pmTrumps has made some gaffes however the press refuses to acknowledge some doozy bloopers by Obama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0q9hQxwAc
Report Post »Love_Small_Dogs
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:27pmFunny because the audio video segment of Obama’s presentation was a blooper reel making fun of his teleprompter technique. It was modeled after the King’s Speech trailer. It mocked the President, The Vice President and White House communications. It was not very original and went too long; but the self-deprecating humor statement was made.
Report Post »TerryDo
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:43pmJust post that site everywhere you post and ask five people to post that youtube site wherever they post and so and so forth.
Entite the site: The President’s Speech with Dr. Teleprompter his personal speech therapist.
Report Post »HK-UMP_45ACP
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:12pmRight On TerryDo! Good one!
Report Post »We Are Not Alone
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 3:57pmSeth, Seth…. I think that obama taking YOUR job as comedian would be good for the country….. hopefully in 2012 WE THE PEOPLE can make that happen…. with all the corruption, WE THE PEOPLE will have our hands full.
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 3:59pmLiberal comedians like Myers don’t have a say, Republican primary voters do. But Trump has his work cut out for him. http://www.elephantwatcher.com/2011/04/high-negatives-imperil-palin-trump.html
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:02pmI think he’s just trying to make a name for himself. I don’t watch SNL except for an occasional monologue by the obama impersonator. Now, that’s good!
Report Post »Love_Small_Dogs
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:17pmAs SNL head writer for the past ten years, he already has a name in the trade. He also happens to bring truth to power, and simply rates The Donald based on his non-stuttering but shameless performance.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:19pmJust want to share this with the Blazers:
American Minute with Bill Federer
For May 1:
MAY 1, 305 AD, the most powerful man in the world, Emperor
Diocletian, stepped down from ruling the Roman Empire.
He had required all the military to worship pagan Roman gods, thus
forcing Christians out of the military.
With Christians out, Diocletian used the military to persecute
Christians with extreme severity, going province by province arresting
church leaders, cutting out tongues, boiling some alive, decapitating
others, burning scriptures, forbidding worship and demanding pagan
sacrifices.
From Europe to North Africa, thousands were martyred, and the
faithful cried out in prayer.
Suddenly, Diocletian was struck with a painful intestinal disease and
resigned.
Eight years later Emperor Constantine ended the persecution of
Christians.
President Reagan commented in 1984 on how Christianity influenced
Rome:
“In the fourth century, a monk (Telemachus) thought he heard God
telling him to go to Rome…
He followed a crowd into the Coliseum and saw the gladiators.
He realized they were going to fight to the death.
He cried out, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’…made his way through
the crowd and climbed the wall into the arena…
As he was pleading with the gladiators…one of them plunged his
sword into his body…
his last words were, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’
Suddenly the gladiators stood looking at this tiny form…
In dead silence, everyone left.”
Reagan continued:
“That was the last battle in the Coliseum. One tiny voice…’In the
Name of Christ, stop!’
We could be saying that today.”
Report Post »jmbogstad
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:22pmMeyers is a douche. Watch this video instead, just as funny:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhDPHb2RXI4
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:26pmI think some of the GOP candidates should take a cue from Trump and learn people are tired of them talking in circles. Straight and plain talk is what we need, most of all the TRUTH.
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:34pmWhy is it that anybody that has a bit of talent and/or notoriety suddenly become experts on how the country should be run? Oh, I can sing or tell a joke or act a little…so I must know everything about national economics, foreign policy and what’s best for our nation…and I want to show everyone how smart I am!
Give me a break! Damnable egotists!
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:46pm@SHOWTIME…..I felt a feeling of peace just reading those words of Ronald Reagan….Now THAT was an American president
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:46pmWhat a parade of trolls …..yuk
Report Post »Give us an “ ignore” button Blaze, plz plz plz
CatB
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 4:59pmLIke I am going to take political advise from SNL .. get real … people isn’t that what elected Obama?!!!
Report Post »Okie from Muskogee
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:05pmShowtime said it right, just another looking for attention…
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:08pmMeet the Press? Really? Just what we need to get to the bottom of “The Trump Reaction– or Lack Thereof.” Did they have a panel of experts? Did they invite the President impersonator guy? (Did I just hear James Earl Jones say “Face……the Nation….?”
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:25pmClearly Seth, as are ALL “the libs,” is very fearful of all that Donald-power. Did you hear how all that darned Seth-stuttering gets in the way, btw.? No, me neither…
Report Post »papapatriot
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 5:36pmI agree with LOTUS503. Why is it that as soon as someone achieves success in the entertainmant or sports field they become political analysts? Since the majority of Americans are “celebrity obsessed” this is their entire source of political knowledge and awareness. The current state of our public education, or should I say, public indoctrination, fails us in many ways. Our forefathers were very aware of the importence of educating our children, Thomas Jefferson said “If a nation expects to be ignorant – - -and free – - – in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be”, John Adans was more to the point, “Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom”. If our education system followed this course we would not be in our current situation. Join us at WEBPATRIOTICSERVICES.com and help us restore American Values. God Bless America.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 6:07pm@showtime
Report Post »I found your post on diocletius far more interesting than and content rich than the story/video posing as relavant. Thanks,someone had to do a little work.
GETLIFE
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 6:17pmAll that stuttering! I felt sorry for him.
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 6:54pmHELLLLOOOOO BECKISNUTZ
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ahmadinejad-returns-to-work-says-no-rift-with-khamenei/2011/05/01/AFTLcuTF_story.html
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 7:02pmActually, Obama would have delivered Seth’s lines better than Seth.
>Besides that Seth, Obama must have been a tough act to follow.
Report Post »Kerby Clark
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 7:03pm@Showtime good job! That is a great pome or whatever that I am sharing tomorrow at work. :))
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 7:28pmAlso overheard at the WH Roast of Donald Trump
“You have to admire a President who can kill a crowd, Gaddafi’s son and three of his grandchildren at the same time”….
and claim his hands are clean .. after all it’s just a kinetic intervention…
$4 gas, no one is laughing at the pump, unemployment at record highs, growth at record lows, fires burning Texas, hundreds of people dead and unaccounted for across the South and this President is roasting Donald Trump?
All jokes aside have you ever seen a President of the United States act like this…
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 8:37pmSeth who?
Report Post »RJO
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 8:52pmSeth who?
Let’s see…Saturday Night Live is on NBC….and they are plugging the show on an NBC News program. Pardon me for asking again……Seth who?
And the American public is supposed to CARE about what HE thinks? What is his “expertise”…other than being an alleged comedian.
Hey Mr. Gregory (bias as they come)…ask someone who is RELEVANT!
Idiots………
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 9:11pmBoycott SNL tired of their leftist propaganda year after year This dolt will end up going the same route as Maher and Garafolo etc of failed comedian/actors. Since they aren”t funny they have to resort to insults and personal attacks.
He thinks BHO is good for the country vs a businessman(not necessarily Trump) the trouble we are in with the power the networks are giving this guy since his little attack the other night. Zombies will see that and this and jump right on board the socialist suicide train!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 1, 2011 at 10:05pmTrump for President! Some of my favorite quotes of his.
Report Post »-My worth is many, many, many times Mitt Romney
-A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
-We should just take their oil
-I’m a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
-Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
-Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.