Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Yes, that SNL skit!

Am so glad Hulu had this awesome Saturday Night Live piece, with all those comedy maestros.  The diner where customers get cheeseburgers, and Pepsi--no Coke :)

O'reilly, Obama, Beck, and SNL. Ah, what a laugh-off!

At least O'Reilly didn't say "tide goes in, tide goes out" :)

But, seriously, there are people who watch O'Reilly's show for information and not for entertainment? How do they avoid puking?

And, how did the world not stop "spinning" when O'Reilly chatted with Beck, and even ol' Bill finds that Glenn is nuts :)

Oh well ... that is capitalism for you!

Wikileaks TMZ :)

The opener was quite imaginative.  The Hillary Clinton piece was way too funny

Thanksgiving Awards :)

From Saturday Night Live

Would you buy jeans from Brett Favre?

Every once in a while SNL does something really funny; here is one:

Just in case you missed out on the news that is the reason for this "advertisement," here is a recap
And here is the original ad that SNL parodied

The Sarah Palin Network

She is baaaaack :)  "That is so Palin" .... Tina Fey, that is ...

Seth Meyers is worried about Conan and the Tonight Show because ....

I saw lions in Africa, no "Tiger"

Thanks to the web, I can catch up on at least a few things I missed .... like this one about Tiger Woods :-)

Climate change: outcrazy the crazies :-)

The 3am phone call Obama didn't get :)

Remember that campaign commercial about the White House getting a phone call at 3:00 am?  It was neat how SNL wove that into Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Comedians worried that they might not be able to have fun with Obama as the president as they had when W and Clinton were in the White House.  Turns out not to be the case, fortunately for democracy.  Of course, Obama himself has been quite in the clear and no jokes about his individual self.  But, there is a theme emerging--while the jokes are about the events surrounding him, Obama is in the center of those jokes.

Here is Obama on his accomplishments thus far

HT

"You lie": Saturday Night Live explains what happened

Geithner explains the bank stress test results

So, it was really a surprise that by and large banks passed the test?
Robert Reich was concerned about the tests even before the results came out:

[Banks] needing extra capital will get it from the Treasury. But where will the money come from, now that the TARP fund is almost exhausted and Congress is dead set against providing more bank bailout money? The Treasury will simply swap debt for equity – turning what the banks owe the government into shares of stock in the banks. Presto. Ailing banks will get more capital, and Tim Geithner won’t have to go back to Congress to ask for it.

But by this sleight-of-hand, the public takes on more risk. Much of the money we originally gave Wall Street took the form of senior debt. We were preferred creditors, meaning that in the event of bankruptcy (or some form of it) we’d get repaid first. But as shareholders, we’d get nothing. As we’ve seen time and again during this economic crisis, shareholders lose big.

But, on with the test results, you say? Sure. Here is the treasury sec. explaining the test results:



thanks to GM for the tip