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April 17, 2016 1:09 PM   Subscribe

 
I was reading the AV Club rundown of last night's episode and it made mention of the fact that this came at the very end of the episode, a time slot they usually reserve for the more bizarre, iffy sketches. The reviewer theorized that someone at NBC might have been expecting some blow back for it, but if that's true, one wonders why they bothered in the age of viral videos and next day playback.

As for the video itself, I wish I could say it was over the top. Having seen clips of Ray Wise's cartoonishly evil ACLU lawyer from God's Not Dead 2, SNL isn't exaggerating a damn thing.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 1:17 PM on April 17, 2016 [10 favorites]


"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."
posted by eviemath at 1:29 PM on April 17, 2016 [1 favorite]


An alternative link for those outside the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_iojXqJj-g
posted by northernish at 1:31 PM on April 17, 2016 [2 favorites]


> ...if that's true, one wonders why they bothered in the age of viral videos and next day playback.

For that matter, why NBC themselves posted the video on YouTube.
posted by ardgedee at 1:31 PM on April 17, 2016 [1 favorite]


> The reviewer theorized that someone at NBC might have been expecting some blow back for it, but if that's true, one wonders why they bothered in the age of viral videos and next day playback.

I don't think it's true. I'm pretty sure Lorne Michaels has autonomous control in the show composition and they don't get notes from NBC except for standards and practices regarding language or implied sexual content. Louis CK ran his child molestation monologue by Lorne and he still let him go with it, so there doesn't seem any fear of blowback on his end. They had another fake commercial earlier ("Heroin AM") and probably didn't want them too close together. Maybe they thought the heroin one was funnier or it was a pet project of Julia Louise Dreyfus?
posted by bluecore at 1:39 PM on April 17, 2016 [2 favorites]


Did this not air on the west coast? I watched until 12:55 and then I turned it off figuring it was over.
posted by bleep at 1:39 PM on April 17, 2016


Well I luaghed. "christians are the more persecuted people in America..." ( black lady in shot biting her lip).

"If God is gay why aren't there gay priests?!"

Comedy gold.
My brother in law still gets donation requests from his Catholic church that specifically state that none of the donations will go to the defense of child abusing priests.
posted by Max Power at 1:42 PM on April 17, 2016 [5 favorites]


This is a cute video, but far more impressive is hauling an outhouse to the top of the tallest mountain in your state to protest.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:48 PM on April 17, 2016 [5 favorites]


I thought satire was supposed to push the edge of plausible. This seemed completely tame and utterly believable as a faith-based drama probably starring Melissa Joan Hart or Kirk Cameron.
posted by vuron at 2:12 PM on April 17, 2016 [13 favorites]


Yeah, I think it ran when it did just because of the way they intersperse pre-recorded material to enable costume and set changes. Weirder live skits ARE often towards the end of the show, but pre-recorded ones are placed according to the needs of the live show.

Generally everything before Weekend Update is stuff they think will land well; after Weekend Update with live sketches you get filler, half-assed ideas, half-rehearsed skits, the borderline offensive, and stuff that's super-weird, idiosyncratic, or off-the-wall. Often the skits that make me laugh the hardest are at the end of the show because they suit my off-kilter sense of humor, but the ones that land with the hardest thuds are also there. You also see them test out new characters in the late show a lot and "promote" those skits to earlier in the show if they go over well. The second half of the show is just generally weirder and more uneven.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 2:14 PM on April 17, 2016 [3 favorites]


This is what they are aping vuron

God is Not Dead 2

May have gotten the title wrong, what evs. :edit
posted by Max Power at 2:16 PM on April 17, 2016 [2 favorites]


Not realizing it's satire, my conservative American relatives will be posting edits of this in their Facebook feeds before the week is out.
posted by klanawa at 2:16 PM on April 17, 2016 [9 favorites]


Should be followed up with a harder edged drama about how oppressed bigots are when they get in trouble for burning crosses in people's yards named God is an oppressed white dude
posted by vuron at 2:22 PM on April 17, 2016


Re: the scheduling, also keep in mind, if the host doesn't appear in the pre-filmed, not-live piece, it's possible it's been in the can for weeks before it's aired, and gets aired because it fits the available time.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 2:26 PM on April 17, 2016


"Show us your guns!"
posted by clavdivs at 2:30 PM on April 17, 2016 [3 favorites]


This won't stay satire; I'm sure the people behind God's Not Dead are coming up with a sequel revolving around oppressed Christian bakers as we speak.
posted by imnotasquirrel at 2:49 PM on April 17, 2016 [2 favorites]


Not realizing it's satire, my conservative American relatives will be posting edits of this in their Facebook feeds before the week is out.

Honestly, if you just edit the "God is a boob man" bit, the thing plays as exactly how conservative christians feel about this subject.
posted by Thorzdad at 3:09 PM on April 17, 2016 [5 favorites]


God is Not Dead 2

but she's very embarrassed
posted by philip-random at 3:27 PM on April 17, 2016 [7 favorites]


I always preferred Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person, Anyway? by Oolon Colluphid. I wasn't nearly as impressed by the follow-up Well, That About Wraps It Up For God because it just felt like re-hashing established facts by that point.
posted by deadaluspark at 3:46 PM on April 17, 2016 [25 favorites]


If God is dead, then why do men have nipples? Checkmate, atheists.
posted by Brocktoon at 4:06 PM on April 17, 2016 [5 favorites]


At least one of the gay wedding cake controversies was really about anti-gay harassment.
posted by CBrachyrhynchos at 4:30 PM on April 17, 2016 [1 favorite]


The Gilmore girls has been rerunning on a Christian channel locally, and I binged the first four seasons (where I stopped and pretended 5-7 didn't happen), and God's not dead was flogged constantly. Has Melissa Joan Hart gone the way of Kirk Cameron?
posted by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 4:50 PM on April 17, 2016


A verbatim comment from a friend of a friend in a Facebook political discussion:

"So don't count on Kasich to protect bakers and wedding planners and preachers from these hateful LGBT mobs."

So, yeah, this barely qualifies as parody.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 5:04 PM on April 17, 2016 [1 favorite]


I kept waiting for the SNL skit to start, but all I got was a trailer for some Christian movie. Where's the funny?
posted by happyroach at 5:10 PM on April 17, 2016


yeah, I didn't find it funny at all, way too close to reality.
posted by maggiemaggie at 5:12 PM on April 17, 2016


I think this fails as satire, but only because it's less heavy handed with fewer straw men than the trailer for "God is Not Dead 2" ("This time it's personal"?).
posted by Betelgeuse at 5:29 PM on April 17, 2016


I think this fails as satire, but only because it's less heavy handed with fewer straw men than the trailer for "God is Not Dead 2" ("This time it's personal"?).

So what you're saying is you think this parody is....

...half-baked?
posted by offalark at 5:34 PM on April 17, 2016 [8 favorites]


Real or Satire?
posted by Thorzdad at 5:40 PM on April 17, 2016


How is the movie itself not already considered a parody? It's too absurd to believe.

Fuck, if you're so smart, explain this, Clarissa.
posted by deadaluspark at 6:16 PM on April 17, 2016 [6 favorites]


I literally have to post this to offset my Ray Wisenheimer.

Shrim Alternative Healing Center

Even more Shrim

Business Hugs

After his appearances on Tim & Eric, it almost makes me wonder if even he thinks this flick is supposed to be a comedy.
posted by deadaluspark at 6:23 PM on April 17, 2016 [1 favorite]


Angel in Denim: The Kim Davis Story

Somebody is going to make this movie...
posted by SisterHavana at 7:24 PM on April 17, 2016 [1 favorite]


So what you're saying is you think this parody is....

...half-baked?


You're missing David Caruso putting on his sunglasses, but other than that, Yes. Yes I am.
posted by Betelgeuse at 7:27 PM on April 17, 2016


Glad I watched that trailer because the idea of Ray Wise as the eeeeeeeevil ACLU lawyer was almost tempting me to want to see that thing, but wow somehow they even reduced Laura Palmer's dad into their mix of boring and cringe-worthy house style.
posted by straight at 7:34 PM on April 17, 2016


Dayum, Leland Palmer has become rather sinister over the last 25 years.
posted by Zerowensboring at 8:27 PM on April 17, 2016


Has Melissa Joan Hart gone the way of Kirk Cameron?

Yes.
posted by KingEdRa at 4:02 AM on April 18, 2016


I don't know why you guys are saying the ACLU lawyer is evil. I agree with every word he's saying.
posted by maxsparber at 4:32 AM on April 18, 2016


My right wing Facebook friends are all posting about how Bruce Springsteen won't ply his craft for people whose beliefs he finds morally wrong and I'm looking at it like "I should probably contest that assertion but...umm.."
posted by Octaviuz at 5:03 AM on April 18, 2016 [1 favorite]


This trailer really opened my eyes. It had never occurred to me that cracking eggs into a bowl becomes nearly impossible when your faith is under attack.

And I can't stop thinking about God having nice pecs and washboard abs. Oh, Daddy!
posted by Short Attention Sp at 5:41 AM on April 18, 2016 [1 favorite]


It's the Holy Spirit and Mary, not the Holy Spirit and Gary.
posted by straight at 6:21 AM on April 18, 2016 [2 favorites]


Octaviuz: "Bruce Springsteen"

The Boss did recently cancel a North Carolina show in protest of the anti-trans bill. I presume that's what they're thinking of?

On the other hand, I don't think he vets individual ticket-holders. If he is putting on a concert, anyone can buy a ticket.

So how to address the analogy depends on whether the cake is a concert or if the bakery is the concert and the cake is a ticket.
posted by RobotHero at 6:46 AM on April 18, 2016 [1 favorite]


Totes a pet peeve that the larger argument in which Nietzsche declared "God is dead," is often completely overlooked. I'm like, "context, people...context!" but then again that is one heck of a darn catchy chorus: "God's not dead! He's surely alive! He's living on the inside roaring like a lion!"
posted by Bob Regular at 6:50 AM on April 18, 2016


At least one of the gay wedding cake controversies was really about anti-gay harassment.

Having opened that article in another tab yesterday and only just read all the way to the bottom of it now, I feel compelled to point out that even though the title of it is "Oregon bakers forced to pay $135,000 after sharing lesbian couple’s home address" there's a "correction" note at the bottom of it which links to a WaPo blog post by Eugene Volokh entitled "No, the Oregon bakers weren’t fined for publishing the complainant’s home address, or for otherwise publicizing the complaint against them".
posted by XMLicious at 7:20 AM on April 18, 2016 [1 favorite]


And I can't stop thinking about God having nice pecs and washboard abs. Oh, Daddy!

I suspect God is so good looking, He would make me - a straight man - gay for Him.

But since I'm a straight man, I prefer to think of God as so perfect that She is the epitome of female beauty.
posted by nubs at 8:33 AM on April 18, 2016


> Jeez, you weren't kidding about Ray Wise's sinister ACLU lawyer.

Ray Wise is always referred to as "The Devil" since his appearance in "Reaper".
posted by Enron Hubbard at 11:45 AM on April 18, 2016 [3 favorites]


Reaper is one of my favorite canceled shows. Ray Wise played the hell out of that devil.

I did not know Clarissa/Sabrina went the way of Kirk Cameron. I'm pretty saddened by that because I enjoyed her TV roles growing up. :(
posted by numaner at 12:57 PM on April 18, 2016 [1 favorite]


So from what I heard Joel McHale or whoever he is from Community or something DIDN'T cancel a show in NC, but donated his profits instead to a pro-LGBT organization. I heard this from a friend of a friend who works for DPAC and appreciated being able to work rather than losing a gig.
posted by Snowishberlin at 3:09 PM on April 18, 2016


So from what I heard Joel McHale or whoever he is from Community or something DIDN'T cancel a show in NC, but donated his profits instead to a pro-LGBT organization.

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal tour did the same thing - donating proceeds from last weekend's show in Asheville to Equality NC.
posted by SisterHavana at 3:21 PM on April 18, 2016 [1 favorite]


Honestly, if you just edit the "God is a boob man" bit, the thing plays as exactly how conservative christians feel about this subject.

And that's kind of a joke subverting what you assume the movie will be titled: "God's Not Gay," which would more directly reference the movie they're parodying and would be almost believable as an actual Evangelical movie title.
posted by straight at 3:29 PM on April 18, 2016


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