Wednesday Open Mike: Black Jeopardy (OT)

It's been a while since I've featured any comedy. This is note-perfect, both writing and acting.

An incidental commentary in passing from the conservative columnist David Brooks:

"Among the less educated, anxiety flows from and inflames a growing sense that the structures of society are built for the exploitation of people like themselves. Everything is rigged; the rulers are malevolent and corrupt.

"Last weekend’s 'Black Jeopardy' skit on 'Saturday Night Live' did a beautiful job of showing how this sensation overlaps among both progressive African-Americans and reactionary Trumpians."

Even if you've seen it already it stands watching again. Listen to the audience. Made me laugh, too.

Mike

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Featured Comments from:

Peter Marquis-Kyle: "Oops. 'The uploader has not made this video available in your country.'"

Mike replies: Jeez, I'm not being very friendly to non-U.S. people recently, am I? Sorry about that. Not intentional.

Paul De Zan: "Jamelle Bouie at Slate has a terrific column about this sketch."

Comments

[Al C.]

Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWuJHbVZBQg

[Wrong one--the one I tried to link is with Tom Hanks. --Mike]

[Michael]

As a long-time ex-pat but avid follower of the US situation, this really opened another view on the situation in the States for me. It's easy enough to get more or less informed commentary on, oh, say, just as an example, THE ELECTION, but hard to see what's going on from the bottom looking up. Thank you very much for that.

[Anthony Shaughnessy]

There's a hilarious new series on BBC radio 4 at the moment with american comedian Rich Hall about the US elections. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z4djf
Anthony

[Ed]

Al's link is a different sketch but look in the sidebar.

[Ed Hawco]

This odd "picture in picture" version of the Tom Hanks skit seems to work in Canada: https://youtu.be/RhzqWREE46I

[Mark Jennings]

Facile. Two peoples seen from far across the class and race divides and the result is confused. For example, where I live in WV, the man would be spotted instantly for the personality and spirit of a loyal and generations deep Democrat. He's nothing like the hat wearing Trump supporters here. And the three blacks are "progressive"? They somehow express "the" black experience? I haven't heard anything like them since 60s and 70s sitcoms.

The writers and the actors should try to get out more.