Saturday Night Live has regained its legendary stride and has now once again become must-see viewing for anyone interested in great political satire. It’s easy for satire attempts to flop and scoring requires precisely hitting and shattering shared assumption, Here’s SNL’s latest gem: a promo for The Barack Obama Variety Half Hour Show:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.