Monday Morning Funnies, Part 2

March 17th, 2008 at 12:44pm Andrea Zimmermann

Well, it’s not quite the morning anymore, but let’s just pretend I’m not a little late in posting this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” clips.

On Saturday, former SNL funnyman Tracy Morgan appeared on the ever-popular “Weekend Update” segment of the sketch show. He offered a rebuttal to his former castmate and current boss Tina Fey’s take on the presidential election. (Morgan co-stars in Fey’s hit show “30 Rock”)

If you haven’t watched the Fey’s bit, you should probably watch that first. Then, I recommend watching Morgan’s rebuttal. I must warn you that both segments do include some profanity, so don’t turn the volume up too loud at work.

After watching the Morgan’s take on the presidential race, I couldn’t help but wonder if his guest appearance had anything to do with this article.

On a completely unrelated but also funny note, Slate.com has a piece on its Web site today where readers were asked to submit their favorite sports metaphors for the Democratic presidential race. Why did the writers not include Republican contenders in their piece? Well maybe because the nomination was no contest? (Ok, I should probably leave these sort of metaphors to my much more well-qualified sportswriting colleagues.)

Here is an example of the Slate results:

Boxing. Several Gabfest listeners suggested that the perfect Clinton-Obama metaphor was a 15-round heavyweight bout that ends with several knockdowns but no clear winner. Some referred specifically to the famous Ali vs. Frazier matches, with Obama mapping to the faster, graceful Ali, and Clinton to the indestructible gladiator Frazier.

Photo courtesy of Slate.com

Entry Filed under: Saturday Night Live, national politics, Hillary Clinton