Dumbfuckistan

John Belushi, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman and his wife... Saturday Night Live has had more drug tragedies than any show on television and never once made a public statement about it or taken corrective action. The source of problem is obvious: their talent source Chicago's Second City. In addition to those named above, Second city was also a big break for such junkies as Robin Williams and Robert Downey, Jr. For years NCB and Loren Michaels have made a fine profit off the eccentric comedy these peoples drug ruled minds created. And although they never accepted any responsibility or took any action to help their performers and the culture of SNL, they at least had the decency to never make jokes at their expense.

Last Saturday's SNL, a politically slanted parody of the claymation classic 'Rudolph' depicted a Santa angry at "the red states" whom he labeled "dumbfuskistan", informing Rudolph that "Trailer parks don't have chimneys". During the bit conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who in the past year admitted to an addiction to prescription pain meds and entered rehab, was shown passed out on the floor of a bathroom, covered in vomit, laying amongst pills and med containers.

Who thought this was funny? In fact, the whole skit lacked for laughs. Some may of guffawed at the mention of dumbfuckistan and the bigoted descriptions of "red states" (speaking of which, compare Ohio to, say the 99.9% of Illinois that isn't Chicago) as trailer parks, but even they couldn't of found much more in it to enjoy. Instead of giving most of the nations children presents, Santa decides to instead kill time by hanging out in New York. If you could fly any where in the world and hang out with any liberals you wanted, who would you choose? Willie Nelson? Jimmy Buffet? Bill Clinton? The writers instead to show Santa chilling with a group about as funny and fun as a drunk doing Switchfoot on Karaoke. They included; Margret Cho, a woman who has made a career doing Charlie Chan voices under the over that they are impressions of her grandmother; Al Franken, the author of, "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" and who got as few laughs as a clay puppet as he did for years on SNL; a woman who looked a bit like Maureen Dowd; and Moby. Why the fuck would Santa be with these downers on Christmas? Even Santa, who kept implying that Moby was gay, seemed uncertain.

Yeah, Moby trying to convince Santa he wasn't gay was a bit amusing, but that was about it. The point is there are limits to good taste, and depicting a former drug addict as dead simply because you hold antipodal political opinions is tactless and like much of SLN these days, lacking humor.

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