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.It s also the coldest month of the year, just in case we wanted to have a pa-rade. The black SNL performer who went on to enjoy the most successful ca-reer, Eddie Murphy, contributed his impressions of Buckwheat from the LittleRascals movies, Gumby, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, and a hybrid called Lit-tle Richard Simmons.One of his most popular sketches was Murphy schildren s show entitled Mr.Robinson s Neighborhood, in which he playedan inner-city scam artist who taught children how to break into homes and au-tomobiles, how to steal money from their mother s purse to send to him, and soon.Mr.Robinson takes the viewers around his neighborhood:Oh, look, a bombed-out building! Could you live in it? Could you corner some-body in it and take his wallet?.Ooh, look! Mr.Taxicab Driver is drivingthrough our neighborhood.Think he ll pick up one of the people from ourneighborhood? No way.Can you say, throw a coke bottle? Well, since I haveto walk to work I can t catch a cab I gotta walk sixty-three blocks, so I ll seeyou tomorrow.20In Mr.Robinson s Neighborhood, Murphy managed to combine a send-upof racist stereotypes and a critique of the hyper-segregation in America s majorcities that has created such miserable neighborhoods along with the subver-sive suggestion that the original Mr.Rogers, a beloved but ultra-white figurefrom the viewer s childhood, too nice to be true, represented the hypocrisy ofthe white ruling class.Family life has often been the target of the SNL s satire, usually from theviewpoint of the cool hipster stifled by his or her square parents.One of thedarkest sketches on this topic, shown on one of the Christmas shows, was anadvertisement for a recording of songs entitled The Dysfunctional FamilyChristmas, including such popular favorites as I ve Got My Drinking underControl for the Holidays ; Can t You Let it Drop, It s Christmas ; What IWant You Can t Buy Me ; and Fruitcake and Shame. Other bizarre familiesincluded the Loopners, a family of nerds; the Conehads, an extraterrestrialfamily from the planet Remulak; and the Widettes, who shared a commoncondition of extremely large posteriors, caused by their incessant eating.Theone line short Tueth's 103-216 9/28/04 11:28 AM Page 153Playtime for the Grown-ups 153|monstrous families played upon the common suspicion of all adolescents (andmany adults) that their own families were impossibly and incorrigibly weird.Religion has provided a favorite target for the Saturday Night Live s humor.During his three seasons on the show (1978 1980, 1985 1986), Don Novellooften appeared as the hip Father Guido Sarducci, director of communicationsfor Vatican City.Holding a cigarette in his fingers, Father Sarducci would ex-plain Roman Catholic teachings and church politics in a down-to-earth,highly irreverent manner.But the more memorable character was DanaCarvey s Church Lady, who hosted her own talk show entitled ChurchChat. Enid Strict, the Church Lady, dressed in a prim lady s suit, with a hel-met of tightly styled hair and no makeup or jewelry, would peer through herspectacles and comment on the wickedness of the world.Repressed, angry,and severely judgmental, she was particularly obsessed with other people s sex-ual activities, even given to describing people s genital regions and eroticmovements.She frequently referred to the more personal body parts as thebulbous naughty place or the tingly naughty parts that often got en-gorged. She was particularly vigilant against the constant machinations ofSatan aka the Prince of Darkness, the Beastmaster, or the Hairy Host ofHell.She suspected his activity in Halloween, which she referred to as a nighton the town for Satan ; in the Super Bowl, which she re-titled the Satan Bowl,where large sweaty men collide at a high rate of speed to the apparent delightof onlookers.and the fans scream like little Beastmasters, drink beer, andspit up ; and even in Christmas, because the letters that spell Santa can alsospell Satan. A mistress of the pious put-down, Church Lady would berate her guestsand threaten them with the hellfire their immoral lives so clearly deserve.Some of her guests included actual celebrities such as Sigourney Weaver, whohad played a woman possessed by demons in Ghostbusters; Danny DeVito, whowas scolded for making a film entitled Throw Momma from the Train; and SeanPenn, whose major crime was being married to Madonna.Rob Lowe, whosecareer was put at risk by the scandalous revelation of a videotape showing himhaving sex with a prostitute, came on the show and ended up being punishedby Church Lady with a very energetic spanking [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.It s also the coldest month of the year, just in case we wanted to have a pa-rade. The black SNL performer who went on to enjoy the most successful ca-reer, Eddie Murphy, contributed his impressions of Buckwheat from the LittleRascals movies, Gumby, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, and a hybrid called Lit-tle Richard Simmons.One of his most popular sketches was Murphy schildren s show entitled Mr.Robinson s Neighborhood, in which he playedan inner-city scam artist who taught children how to break into homes and au-tomobiles, how to steal money from their mother s purse to send to him, and soon.Mr.Robinson takes the viewers around his neighborhood:Oh, look, a bombed-out building! Could you live in it? Could you corner some-body in it and take his wallet?.Ooh, look! Mr.Taxicab Driver is drivingthrough our neighborhood.Think he ll pick up one of the people from ourneighborhood? No way.Can you say, throw a coke bottle? Well, since I haveto walk to work I can t catch a cab I gotta walk sixty-three blocks, so I ll seeyou tomorrow.20In Mr.Robinson s Neighborhood, Murphy managed to combine a send-upof racist stereotypes and a critique of the hyper-segregation in America s majorcities that has created such miserable neighborhoods along with the subver-sive suggestion that the original Mr.Rogers, a beloved but ultra-white figurefrom the viewer s childhood, too nice to be true, represented the hypocrisy ofthe white ruling class.Family life has often been the target of the SNL s satire, usually from theviewpoint of the cool hipster stifled by his or her square parents.One of thedarkest sketches on this topic, shown on one of the Christmas shows, was anadvertisement for a recording of songs entitled The Dysfunctional FamilyChristmas, including such popular favorites as I ve Got My Drinking underControl for the Holidays ; Can t You Let it Drop, It s Christmas ; What IWant You Can t Buy Me ; and Fruitcake and Shame. Other bizarre familiesincluded the Loopners, a family of nerds; the Conehads, an extraterrestrialfamily from the planet Remulak; and the Widettes, who shared a commoncondition of extremely large posteriors, caused by their incessant eating.Theone line short Tueth's 103-216 9/28/04 11:28 AM Page 153Playtime for the Grown-ups 153|monstrous families played upon the common suspicion of all adolescents (andmany adults) that their own families were impossibly and incorrigibly weird.Religion has provided a favorite target for the Saturday Night Live s humor.During his three seasons on the show (1978 1980, 1985 1986), Don Novellooften appeared as the hip Father Guido Sarducci, director of communicationsfor Vatican City.Holding a cigarette in his fingers, Father Sarducci would ex-plain Roman Catholic teachings and church politics in a down-to-earth,highly irreverent manner.But the more memorable character was DanaCarvey s Church Lady, who hosted her own talk show entitled ChurchChat. Enid Strict, the Church Lady, dressed in a prim lady s suit, with a hel-met of tightly styled hair and no makeup or jewelry, would peer through herspectacles and comment on the wickedness of the world.Repressed, angry,and severely judgmental, she was particularly obsessed with other people s sex-ual activities, even given to describing people s genital regions and eroticmovements.She frequently referred to the more personal body parts as thebulbous naughty place or the tingly naughty parts that often got en-gorged. She was particularly vigilant against the constant machinations ofSatan aka the Prince of Darkness, the Beastmaster, or the Hairy Host ofHell.She suspected his activity in Halloween, which she referred to as a nighton the town for Satan ; in the Super Bowl, which she re-titled the Satan Bowl,where large sweaty men collide at a high rate of speed to the apparent delightof onlookers.and the fans scream like little Beastmasters, drink beer, andspit up ; and even in Christmas, because the letters that spell Santa can alsospell Satan. A mistress of the pious put-down, Church Lady would berate her guestsand threaten them with the hellfire their immoral lives so clearly deserve.Some of her guests included actual celebrities such as Sigourney Weaver, whohad played a woman possessed by demons in Ghostbusters; Danny DeVito, whowas scolded for making a film entitled Throw Momma from the Train; and SeanPenn, whose major crime was being married to Madonna.Rob Lowe, whosecareer was put at risk by the scandalous revelation of a videotape showing himhaving sex with a prostitute, came on the show and ended up being punishedby Church Lady with a very energetic spanking [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]