Day: November 3, 2008

For all of the heightened awareness of Saturday Night Live this fall, you’d think that perhaps the media or viewers likewise would tune in to see how MADtv is spoofing current affairs. But, ah, ha, no. You would be wrong. Both SNL and MADtv spoofed the women of ABC’s The View on Saturday night, but when The View convened for "Hot Topics" this morning, they didn’t even mention MADtv. It’s as if it didn’t air at all. Talk about a snub. Not that the folks at FOX are trying to get heard or mentioned — as I type this on Monday afternoon, they still hadn’t posted their episode online at Hulu. Most of the gripes this morning centered not on how SNL mocked them, but rather about how they left out co-hosts Barbara Walters and Sherri Shepherd, with Walters adding later, perhaps it’s for the best not to ask for further mockery. They had SNL head writer Seth Meyers on the show Monday, too, and talked to him about SNL’s politics. But the fact that both SNL and MADtv parodied the same thing on the same night gives us a chance to compare apples to apples, so to speak. So. How did they break it down and try to make it funny? SNL: Put men in female roles, Kenan Thompson (Whoopi) and Fred Armisen (Joy), which can be looked...