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Monday, October 17, 2011

SNL: GOP primary like Survivor where nobody gets voted off


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Late night sketch comedy stalwart Saturday Night Live lampooned the latest Republican presidential debate. Last week's Bloomberg debate on the economy featured a "kitchen table" seating. The sketch was "televised" by the in-house network at Marriott hotels.

The overall theme of the bit circled around the re-rise of Herman Cain as the party frontrunner and the wholly unserious nature of Cain's campaign. It also ran with the theme that Republicans' reluctance to support Mitt Romney as the party's standard-bearer. Throughout the segment, Jason Sudekis, reprising his role as Romney, consistently accepted the fact that he's the last option of Republican rank-and-file unable to locate a suitor during last call at a bar.

SNL also took swipes at the seemingly failed candidacies of Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann. Gingrich, whose campaign never got any traction, and Bachmann, who was a one-time front runner, were seen locked in a storage closet and pitted against each other in order to appear in the next debate. Meanwhile, Rick Santorum was at a San Francisco gay bar while Ron Paul was kept in a parking garage and Jon Huntsman was purposely given wrong directions.

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