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Also, you can afford a weaker bit like "Fix It! This is something that the Daily Show and Colbert Report have perfected, the joke-per-increment-of-airtime ratio and, in a different way, actual half-hour news programs, which cram ridiculous amounts of information into the broadcast. I think the half-hour format for SNL could be a killer show, and perhaps when they're not reeling from four live shows in a row with news breaking right up until airtime, they'll have time to fine-tune the formula.
On the substance: I gasped in the opening sketch when Bill Ayers came up. Here's how Armisen-as-Obama referred to Ayers:. It couldn't have been written better by Michelle Malkin. Or Sarah Palin. Look, I recognize that mocking McCain means needing a counterpart for Obama. The problem is, the McCain jokes worked because they rang true. McCain referred to Obama as "that one" during the debate, so they riffed on that.
McCain just referred oddly to a crowd as "my fellow prisoners," so they riffed lightly on the old-man-senility thing by having him address people with blatantly different names. So all of these are things that rang true. But the Ayers thing did not — mostly because it's not. If it had been phrased as a question by someone in the audience, or stated by McCain or Brokaw, and Obama's denials had been comically overstepped like, say, if he denied a relationship with Ayers and the chyron read "Obama: Ayers is my best friend" , then that would have rang true.
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