This past Thursday a friend sent me the Hulu.com link of the SNL opening skit which parodied the Clarence Thomas hearings. Chris Farley played Heffelin, Dana Carvey impersonated Strom Thurmond. There was Phil Hartman as Kennedy, Kevin Neilon as Biden (he's our VP, right? I'm not dreaming?) and most salient: Al Frankin as bowtied Paul Simon.
The video is funny in old-school SNL funny. It poked fun at at left and right, republican and democrat and the Senate as a whole. SNL was an equal opportunity offender.
Just now I went to Hulu to show the skit to my brother. It has been removed.
Is it respect for Sen. Frankin? Or is it, as I suspect, just another example of cowardice. Back in March I noted that Seth Meyers http://guffmanandgodot.blogspot.com/2009/03/dear-seth-myers.html and the SNL crew had yet mocked Obama- sure he was in a few skits but paled in comparison (is that a racist remark?) to the harshness and severity leveled at Sarah Palin and John McCain.
SNL has fallend victim to the same PC BS of so many once great institutions- among them schools, newspapers, Hollywood, etc etc.
So sad that some exec at SNL or NBC or GE feels the need to pull the skit. Maybe they fear that Sen. Frankin might pull the funding on some billion dollar GE defense contract...
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