New York Governor and 'Saturday Night Live' Finally See Eye to Eye

When will they apoligize to Sarah Palin??? i'm just sayin'

Well, that was hilarious! I'm glad the governor is such a good sport!

This was awesome. One of the funniest SNL skits I have seen in years. SNL deserves to be made fun of just as much as they like to make fun.

I think this turned out to be a positive for the Governor. I'm sure there were many people who never of him. Now many people are aware of him and his disability and he is proof that people w/disabilies are very capable. I believe this situation showed "politically correct" is over-rated. Good came out of bad.

SNL is least politically correct show on TV? Channel surfing 2 Saturday's ago, and paused on SNL for a moment to see if it had improved and I could get a yuck. There was the tired George Bush routine. It was amusing when he was in office. No material in this administration for a few skits? Here's some SNL: 1. Pelosi with the giant mallet walking through the crowd of protesters subtly jabbing old people, and when they curse, asking the guy with the recorder: "Did you get that?" 2. Obama's schedule. Borrow 100 billion. Take Vacation. Read teleprompter. Take vacation. Spend 500 Billion. Take vacation. Read teleprompter. Take vacation. 3. Someone attempting to get approval via the government health care automated system for a service. We can watch the comic loosen his tie, his face turn red, and as he collapses on the floor, the automated system thanks him for calling. Then we see the TV in the background with a report from the government regarding the reduction in health care costs for heart disease since the new system was established. What could be done with Rangeland his rent controlled town houses? Delightful. Gore has provided a rich source of comedy on a silver platter for a thousand excellent, classic skits to leave us doubled over in stitches. Well, SNL could go on and on with hilarity if they were not protecting this PC administration. If they were not PC they would be the #1 rated show and actually be funny as they would be honest: It's not funny if there is not truth in it.

I thought Governor Paterson's skit was really funny, much funnier than a lot of what I see on SNL lately. These days it seems SNL wants to push the limits of sexual humor, both gay and straight and often just has tasteless humor appealing to a smaller segment of America. I used to watch SNL all the way through almost every Saturday. Now, I only watch bits of it, often surfing to another show. I was glad to catch the Governor's skit and see he's up to poking fun at himself and glad SNL apologized for previous tasteless bits that mocked him and his diability. Good humor is getting hard to find these days. Shock-jock humor seems to be much of what passes for entertainment on TV now, led by SNL.

The only thing SNL should be apologizing for is not being funny.

The movement of society is toward mainstreaming disabilities as normal attributes of the disabled. Using a disability as a comic foil only works in a society that has advanced to this stage, and Governor Paterson seemed to me to be addressing the issue in that vein. He wanted to be sure that SNL's skits were understood as skits on his whole public persona, not singling out his blindness. He actually seemed to have good feelings toward the SNL team, and showed that he is comfortable poking fun at himself, too.

One of the best they've ever done!! Sure sounded like the New York audience LIKES Paterson to me!

We all can use a good laugh from time to time but it would seem that comedy has gone way over board and created an atomesphere that all in the name of comedy is fair game. Can we no longer have comedy thats respectful. I stopped watching many of the Comedy shows because they have become degrading as well as disrespectful. Gov Patterson has my full respect to stand up and put SNL in their place. The comedy world has brought disrespect to the world and they leave no one exempt. Freedom of speech can be a good thing when used in a respectful way. There has to be a line some where that doesn't allow people to demean the Presidential Office as well as their Family. We are teaching our children disrespect and that Freedom of speech protects that right. Lets all laugh as much as possible but not at the expense and pain of others.