Monday Funnies, Part 4

May 19th, 2008 at 12:00pm Andrea Zimmermann

Ever felt like just whacking a politician over the head with a wooden mallet?

Well, now you can do so to your heart’s content, thanks to a new Web site from the people at “Saturday Night Live.”

The site has plenty of goodies tucked in there. You can send your friend’s an E-card. Or perhaps you’d just like to watch some of those classic political clips over and over and over again. (Somehow, SNL has failed to put the Al Gore lockbox sketch on this site, which seems like a gigantic oversight.)

Saturday’s episode had some good sketches worth mentioning, too.

First, Sen. John McCain broke through some of his innate stiffness to pull of an almost funny bit and then this one on SNL’s “Weekend Update. Watch the video here.

Then there is the Obama/Clinton mock ad. SNL has done and can do better than this. Their political barbs were predictable and at times unfunny, just as they were with this piece from their May 10 show.

Now if only they would make an Illinois version of the “Whack-A-Pol” game…

Entry Filed under: Saturday Night Live, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama