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Unlike China, Americans make enough fun of themselves, and are not censored. SNL is exactly what you're proposing.
by yumraj 7y ago
Unlike China, Americans make enough fun of themselves, and are not censored.
SNL is exactly what you're proposing.
- artur_makly 7y agoI grew up watching SNL when Eddie Murphy was playing Buckwheat.. but that’s not the same as a real comedic attempt by a foreign power at satirizing us -;) there must be something online...
- giancarlostoro 7y agoMaybe Russia will do it. I heard they have a 1:1 rip off of the Big Bang Theory. You can YouTube it, it looks obscure.
- i_am_nomad 7y agoIn the name of all that is holy, why would anyone rip off that show? It is literally the worst thing I have ever seen on television, excluding reality TV. And I say that as someone who grew up during TV’s dismal 1980s.
- mrep 7y ago> In the name of all that is holy, why would anyone rip off that show? It is literally the worst thing I have ever seen on television While I have never seen the show, 10-20 million people apparently watch it [0] so apparently a lot of people do like it and your tone comes off as condescending. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory#U.S._standard_ratings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory#U.S._stand...
- MagnumPIG 7y agoFurthermore, apart from the fact that geek culture has always had a hate-on for TBBT, we don't import/export TV show concepts because they are perceived as good, but rather because they are seen as profitable. Good is subjective, money is its own metric.
- i_am_nomad 7y ago> While I have never seen the show You should have stopped there.
- creato 7y ago> SNL is exactly what you're proposing. Isn't South Park what is being proposed? Sure they made fun of China this time, but they make fun of the US and US culture more than any other nation.
- sjwright 7y agoI want to love SNL but a lot of the current political skits are just cast members mimicking news events mostly verbatim while pulling funny faces. (E.g. The Kavenaugh hearings: “I like beer! I like beer!”) Or taking a serious matter and turning it into mere farce. (E.g. current impeachment matters, with Giuliani portrayed with all the wit of a Sesame Street puppet.)
- jquery 7y agoThe recent primary debate skit was pretty good. But... the Christmas Mueller song was particularly egregious. They were better when Obama was in office, IMO. Trump has ruined a lot of “news comedy” across the board. It’s too predictable.
- ahartmetz 7y agoReality is so absurd, it's too hard to make up untrue but sufficiently believable stories...
- sjwright 7y agoPlease, the debate skit was as bad as anything they've done. Cheap caricatures of the media's caricatures of the candidates. The only redeeming aspect of the skit were the cameo performances, particularly the portrayal of Harris—and then only because Maya Rudolph is endlessly engaging to watch despite the weak writing. Look how they portrayed Andrew Yang. An unconventional candidate with near-zero media attention consistently polling above O'Rourke, Klobushar, Castro and Booker. Yet the joke is how poorly he's doing? It's noteworthy that the audience literally didn't laugh.