Can anyone justify to me why Kenan Thompson is not the person who impersonates Barak Obama on Saturday Night Live? He’s the only black person on the show for crying out loud. He is the show’s black guy. SNL usually has two black guys (Chris Rock & Tim Meadows, then Meadows & Tracy Morgan, there might have been other pairs, I don’t know) but budget cuts have meant they can only afford one black guy. Then it makes sense that the black guy they have do the black impersonations.

Some will argue that Kenan doesn’t look anything like Obama, is too fat and can’t do any impersonations except for Bill Cosby, and even that he doesn’t do well. They will also say that Kenan isn’t funny, like that has ever stopped anyone else from being on SNL. To them I say fuck you, Kenan is awesome.

Merry Christmas Post everybody.

Either Spike TV or G4 (I can’t remember which one, they both air the exact same thing) had a Rocky marathon yesterday.  It looked like they were playing the movies in reverse order staring with Rocky V and ending with Rocky I, so the marathon actually would get better with time. But they were just showing Rocky V and IV a couple of times.

The Rocky movies can be really sad though, because someone always has to die in one of the sequels.  Mickey died in the third one, Apollo Creed died in the fourth one, Adrian died right before the latest one, that robot in Rocky IV probably died after Rocky became too poor to take care of it in Rocky V. All to satisfy Sylvester Stallone’s inexhaustible hunger for fictional death.

In a similar vein as my previous post, VH1 Classics has been airing old episodes of MTV Unplugged. But some reason they only show the Alice in Chains and Bon Jovi episodes. That is pretty cool except for the part about Bon Jovi.

The Sirius 70’s channel that comes with my family’s satellite TV service is the best because they play “It Don’t Come Easy” and “Band on the Run” at least once every hour. Out of the four good Beatles solo songs, those are two of the best.

I watched the classic Adam Sandler film Billy Madison a few days ago. There are many high points to the film, but the low point is when Billy has to enter high school. Billy is supposed to be much older than the high school students, which propels much of the drama of the movie. The problem is Adam Sandler was only 29 when the film came out so he didn’t look out of place amongst all the twenty something actors that producers always hire to portray teenagers for labor reasons. They try to make Billy Madison show his age by having him wear an REO Speedwagon shirt, but that doesn’t work for me because the logo on the shirt is too small to see at much of a distance and also fuck anyone who disses on REO Speedwagon.