SNL: "Fox & Friends" Gets Skewered Again

Always funny. And the best part is the "corrections" at the end of the segment. Keep the pause button ready!

 

Elisabeth Hasselbeck Moves from The View to FOX & Friends

The good news is, Saturday Night Live's Vanessa Bayer will barely need to change her wig to go from Gretchen Carlson to Elisabeth Hasselbeck in their FOX & Friends sketches.

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Exiting The View for Fox and Friends Gig — Who Should Replace Her?

The View might be looking a little more to the left later this week. The show’s resident conservative panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who began her broadcast career as a contestant on Survivor, will exit Barbara Walters’ ABC chat-fest after Wednesday’s installment to begin a gig as host of Fox and Friends. The news was broken by The New York Post. . . .
 
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Ladies of The View Talk About Rush Limbaugh

I hate to subject you to The View, a show that wasn't even on my radar until conservatives started railing against it. But one of the members of the show--Whoopi Goldberg--is a favorite of mine. And try as I might, I cannot write off my fondness for her because she is on questionable program.

Here, Whoopi--a sort of moderator on the show--frames the current tit-for-tat war of words between President Barack Obama and drug-addled gas-bag Rush Limbaugh. First, she reads his words. Then, the other ladies discuss them: Joy Behar from the liberal side and Elizabeth Hasselbeck from the blonde bimbo conservative side. Barbara Walters provides the gentle middle ground. Sherri Shepard doesn't know what's going on, and is mercifully silent. And then Whoopi whoops ass. It's toward the end, if you want to zoom through it.



And for absolutely no reason, other than I'm talking about Whoopi, and that this is one of my favorite movies (which I recently re-watched for like the 85th time), here is a clip from Jumpin' Jack Flash. Whoopi (Terry Dolittle) is trying to decipher the title song by the Rolling Stones, to figure out a spy's password. Just watch.

Ann Coulter on The View

I haven't watched this clip yet, but it dovetails nicely with the previous post about pundits. And the combination of the ladies from The View and poisonous harpy Ann Coulter was just creepy enough to inspire morbid curiosity. Watch at your own risk. . .

Elizabeth Hasselbeck vs. Melissa Etheridge on The View

Thankfully, most of the contestants on CBS's Survivor do not go on to greater fame. Some of the million-dollar winners go on to have a minor splash (like original winner, Richard Hatch, who was in a movie or two, and um. . .went to jail for tax evasion). Most are forgotten as soon as--or even before--the next edition of the show comes on.

Why couldn't that have happened with Elizabeth Hasselbeck? How did this non-winner get a spot on a national TV show, cluelessly espousing half-baked conservative "values?" Here she is arguing why it's OK to vote against minority groups' civil rights. I knew there was a reason why I don't watch The View. . .

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Keith Olbermann Looms Over Ladies on The View

I can't stand The View. But I love Whoopi Goldberg. And I love Keith Olbermann. What to do, what to do?

Keith Olbermann & Elizabeth Hasselbeck Skewered on SNL

I'm a big fan of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, but don't say I can't have a sense of humor about Keith's eccentricities. Ben Affleck did a fantastic job lampooning him last night, though I don't think the writing kept pace with his impersonation. What's with the girly-girly cat?



I am not a big fan of The View, though I do love Whoopi Goldberg. I've had a bit of a hard time understanding Elizabeth Hasselbeck's "hero" status on the right. Apparently just being an outspoken conservative on TV is enough to earn that, even if the Survivor survivor comes off badly much of the time.