THE ERA OF TRUMP

[Penner]

According to this statement, SNL is coming back full swing because of Trump:

The most recent SNL, in which Melissa McCarthy lampooned White House press secretary Sean Spicer, nabbed a 2.5 rating among adults 18-49, according to TVLine’s sister site, Variety. As such, the late-night laugher ranked behind only CBS’ The Big Bang Theory as the highest rated program in the demo. These numbers are in line with SNL‘s overall Season 42 viewership — its best since Season 20 — which is up 19 percent in the demo and 22 percent in total viewers over last year.

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/bad-news-donal ... 20570.html

[pineapplemike]

Seems the opposite for Trey Parker and Matt Stone

South Park's Creators Have Given Up on Satirizing Donald Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainme ... mp/515616/

How, as The Economist noted, do you take a tweet like this—“Sorry losers and haters, but my IQ is one of the highest and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault”—and make it even more ridiculous?

One answer: You don’t. That’s the solution come to, at any rate, by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators and writers of, among other works of irreverent pop culture, the long-running show South Park. As Parker told the Australian Broadcasting Company in a recent interview, while promoting the Australian premiere of The Book of Mormon: Making fun of the new U.S. government is more difficult now than it was before, “because satire has become reality.”

It’s a fairly shocking decision, coming from writers who have, for so many years, reliably delighted in the absurdities of American culture. There’s a certain defeatism to it. But there’s a certain realism, too. As Stone put it: “People say to us all the time, ‘Oh, you guys are getting all this good material,’ like we’re happy about some of the stuff that’s happening. But I don’t know if that’s true. It doesn’t feel that way. It feels like they’re going to be more difficult. We’re having our head blown off, like everybody else.”

[Penner]

If anything that is so bizarre/surreal, as of now, this one line sums it all up:

“because satire has become reality.”

[KerningChameleon]

Seems the opposite for Trey Parker and Matt Stone]

Feh, South Park, for years now, has been in the same boat as The Simpsons and Family Guy: a show that exhausted both its talent and zeitgeist a long time ago, and now desperately grasping for relevancy or, failing that, ad revenue to keep it's zombie crew going. All three of those shows were much better when the general populace was all offended and indignant about what they were doing, rather than "yeah, that sure sounds like a typical episode of that show these days, what's new on Netflix this month?"

For me, SP finale was "You're Getting Old", with the "Assburgers" ending grafted onto it: Stan grows into a cynical asshole whose relentless pessimism and inability to enjoy life alienates all his friends and family who move on without him, and becomes an alcoholic to get through his days. Good stuff.

[skankhunt42]

Seems the opposite for Trey Parker and Matt Stone]

Feh, South Park, for years now, has been in the same boat as The Simpsons and Family Guy: a show that exhausted both its talent and zeitgeist a long time ago, and now desperately grasping for relevancy or, failing that, ad revenue to keep it's zombie crew going. All three of those shows were much better when the general populace was all offended and indignant about what they were doing, rather than "yeah, that sure sounds like a typical episode of that show these days, what's new on Netflix this month?"

For me, SP finale was "You're Getting Old", with the "Assburgers" ending grafted onto it: Stan grows into a cynical asshole whose relentless pessimism and inability to enjoy life alienates all his friends and family who move on without him, and becomes an alcoholic to get through his days. Good stuff.

I disagree. I think the last 2 seasons of SP were the best they have done yet.

[TheReal_ND]

Seems the opposite for Trey Parker and Matt Stone]

Feh, South Park, for years now, has been in the same boat as The Simpsons and Family Guy: a show that exhausted both its talent and zeitgeist a long time ago, and now desperately grasping for relevancy or, failing that, ad revenue to keep it's zombie crew going. All three of those shows were much better when the general populace was all offended and indignant about what they were doing, rather than "yeah, that sure sounds like a typical episode of that show these days, what's new on Netflix this month?"

For me, SP finale was "You're Getting Old", with the "Assburgers" ending grafted onto it: Stan grows into a cynical asshole whose relentless pessimism and inability to enjoy life alienates all his friends and family who move on without him, and becomes an alcoholic to get through his days. Good stuff.

P much

[apeman]

This a.m., an alleged leaked story is out claiming that Trump called Flynn at 3 a.m. to ask if a strong or weak dollar is good for the US.

If true, absolutely terrifying to me.

[C-Mag]

This a.m., an alleged leaked story is out claiming that Trump called Flynn at 3 a.m. to ask if a strong or weak dollar is good for the US.

If true, absolutely terrifying to me.

Probably just more Golden Showers. There has been so much Fake News, Propaganda and Partisanship by the Corporate Media that it is hard to believe anything that is put out.

[Speaker to Animals]

[Speaker to Animals]

MILO: Trump Slims Down Lena Dunham. Is There Anything He Can’t Do?




He's not going to stop pushing their buttons.