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REVIEW: SNL with Jesse Eisenberg and Nicki Minaj

POSTED: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 4:00 PM

Filed Under: Critical Mass | TV

This weekend host Jesse Eisenberg (Social Network) opened Saturday Night Live with a cheesy "oh, this is so awkward" cameo by Mark Zuckerberg. This is what ensued:

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- Kristen Wiig did a spot on impression of Michele Bachmann, complete with charts that were totally off camera. They were a nice touch, considering the jokes about her lack of eye contact have been kind of played out. - I love SNL's flashback/retro bits. They recently parodied Back to the Future and It's A Wonderful Life. This week they mimicked Mr. Wizard's World (below), an old-school science show, with horny teens and sexytime with balloons. - John Waters' cameo at the beginning and end of this week's Digital Short was exciting, and Nicki Minaj doing "the creep" might make it a legitimate dance move. - Weekend Update's highlight was Keenan Thompson's Tyler Perry, awash with cash and citing movies with "white people-problems," like "Adventureland, featuring a young man who is sad because he has a job." - I saw the beginning of the amazing "Bride of Blackenstein," and knew it would be Nicki Minaj playing the title role. She couldn't have been better, shaking her big ol' booty around everywhere. It was nice seeing an SNL skit played by a mostly all-black cast for a change.

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Posted 2011-02-02 00:14:33

The University that awarded Congresswoman Bachmann a law degree should be ashamed (Please don't tell me it was Oral Roberts University). If the founding fathers (I suppose she included the Southern founding fathers who owned slaves) worked tirelessly to abolish slavery how come the country fought a civil war over slavery? Did the law school that granted Bachmann a law degree fail to teach, or even mention, the 1857 Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision? If everyone who came to America was welcomed as equal, regardless of race, then why was it necessary to pass three Constitutional Amendments: the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth? Did Rep. Bachmann learn any thing about the Jim Crow period that ushered in legal segregation of the races in the Southern States? Is it possible that the college and the law school she attended omitted any mention of the Supreme Court's "Plessy v. Ferguson" decision? I have a sneaking suspicion that, Rep. Bachmann, a college educated and a lawyer, is not that ignorant. Rather, she seems determined to re-write history to conform with teabaggers' claims that their mission is to restore the ideals of the pure and blameless founding fathers.

Who is dumber?; Michelle for saying the Founding Fathers eliminated slavery, or Sarah for saying that the Soviet Union collapsed because of Sputnik.  What do you think?

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