OT: Rutgers Head Coach Mike Rice is not a good person

[Silent Earl]

Re: OT: Rutgers Head Coach Mike Rice is not a good person

I think every mini-generation can say that...

Dan Aykroyd/Chevy Chase

Dana Carvey/Mike Meyers

Adam Sandler/Chris Farley

Will Ferrell/Molly Shannon

etc.

This is exactly right. I'll hear younger people speak of the comic genius of Chris Farley, David Spade, and Will Ferrell and it makes me throw up a little in my mouth. I find all of them to be talentless and boring.

And SNL has never been the same since John Belushi.

[UNIdad]

Re: OT: Rutgers Head Coach Mike Rice is not a good person

Here's a link for anyone that missed it. One of the best SNL skits ever:

http://deadspin.com/saturday-night-l...ium=socialflow

How is something like this so horrible in real life, yet so hilarious on SNL?

All it did was take reality a little bit farther in the same context of coaching a basketball team.

Do the same people that demanded for the Rutgers coach to be fired find this skit to be funny?

It seems like a much better skit would bring these antics into 30 Rock and show how ridiculous it would have been in the context of producing SNL.

[Barnstormer]

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This is exactly right. I'll hear younger people speak of the comic genius of Chris Farley, David Spade, and Will Ferrell and it makes me throw up a little in my mouth. I find all of them to be talentless and boring.

And SNL has never been the same since John Belushi.

And I always throw up in my mouth a little when I hear old foggies talking about how the ones from their generation was so superior to everybody else.

I think they are all funny as hell... Belushi, Farley, Ferrell, Spade, Murphy, Hartman, Lovitz, Bill Murray, Andy Kaufman, etc. Funny is funny. There are a whole ton of greats from all generations.

[TravelingPanther]

Re: OT: Rutgers Head Coach Mike Rice is not a good person

How is something like this so horrible in real life, yet so hilarious on SNL?

All it did was take reality a little bit farther in the same context of coaching a basketball team.

Do the same people that demanded for the Rutgers coach to be fired find this skit to be funny?

It seems like a much better skit would bring these antics into 30 Rock and show how ridiculous it would have been in the context of producing SNL.

It was making fun of the fact that the coach, AD, etc thought there was nothing wrong with the behavior.

[ronfitch]

Re: OT: Rutgers Head Coach Mike Rice is not a good person

it is obvious that none of you have been confronted by the working end of Lee Dawson's fist.

*That's* pulling a reference from the past. Is he still around C.F.?

[95UNIGRAD]

Re: OT: Rutgers Head Coach Mike Rice is not a good person

And I always throw up in my mouth a little when I hear old foggies talking about how the ones from their generation was so superior to everybody else.

I think they are all funny as hell... Belushi, Farley, Ferrell, Spade, Murphy, Hartman, Lovitz, Bill Murray, Andy Kaufman, etc. Funny is funny. There are a whole ton of greats from all generations.

This. Agree wholeheartedly.

People don't need to put down other generations to build up their own. I know some people that find 1970s SNL old-fashioned and unwatchable because of the current event references - not me personally, but that's their opinion, and there's nothing wrong with that.

[9YRPLAN]

Re: OT: Rutgers Head Coach Mike Rice is not a good person

*That's* pulling a reference from the past. Is he still around C.F.?

im sure hes kicking ass somewhere.

[UNIdad]

Re: OT: Rutgers Head Coach Mike Rice is not a good person

It was making fun of the fact that the coach, AD, etc thought there was nothing wrong with the behavior.

Isn't that almost the same as watching the actual videos of the Rutgers practices?

The SNL skit had some additional exaggeration, but wasn't all that clever. Frankly, I thought much of it was too close to what really happened to make me laugh.

Quality of humor (like many forms of entertainment) is mainly in the eyes of the recipient.