Tag: satire

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The Daily Show Presents “Sean Spicer’s Greatest Hits”

Sean Spicer during White House press briefing

Wow, that was fast.

Take a look at this compilation by The Daily Show of former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicers “greatest hits” following his resignation today.

The clips include his assertions that Trump’s inauguration had the largest number of viewers, and that Hitler never used chemical weapons.

For his part, Spicer tweeted out this after his resignation:

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Satire: “CNN” Responds To Trump Smackdown Video

Satirist Mark Humphries of Viceland’s The Feed gives us “CNN’s” response to Donald Trump’s smackdown video.

Says “CNN:”

“The bullying started a while ago, mainly online. Donald Trump started calling me “fake news,” which was as painful as me having to call him “President of the United States.”

Funny. Watch below.

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Donald Trump Slaps At SNL – Calls Satirical Skit “Hit Job”

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took to Twitter to call Saturday Night Live’s satirical reenactment of the 2nd presidential debate a “hit job,” and part of an elaborate attempt by the media to “rig” the election.

Trump told his followers that the late night sketch show was “unfunny” and that it’s time to retire the series. He gave Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of him a big thumbs down saying Baldwin “stinks.”

This is probably where I should point out that Trump happily appeared on the show last November.

The skit gave nods to all the memorable moments of the past week’s race for the White House including Trump’s recently discovered video tape from 2005 which caught him telling host Billy Bush he liked to kiss women when he felt like it and “grab ’em by the pussy,” and his lurking behind Hillary Clinton during the debate in a shark-like manner.

Clinton wasn’t left unscathed though. From the get go, the folks at SNL made fun of her seemingly over-rehearsed comments and responses.

The Trumpster told the Twitterverse he was not amused:

Kate McKinnon won an Emmy Award skewering Hillary Clinton. And when McKinnon won, Hillary publicly congratulated her. Trump needs to learn a few lessons about not being so thin-skinned.

I have to say, every president and presidential candidate since the 1980s has been lampooned by SNL. If you can’t handle satire, how are you going to handle being leader of the free world?

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Sarcastic Tennessee Tourism Ad Skewers State For Anti-LGBT Legislation

Funny Or Die skewers the state of Tennessee for the recently passed anti-LGBT law that allows health care providers to deny services to LGBT patients based on discriminatory religious beliefs.

This video serves up a satirical invitation to visit Tennessee:

“Soon you could cross the bridge to unenlightenment, ride a horse without worrying a gay guy is looking at your butt, tiptoe across humanity to relive a time when people were unequal, sing a sad country song about your gay friends being refused counseling services, enjoy live music, if we can convince anyone to perform here, gaze at the beautiful rolling hills where the fog is as thick as our ignorance, and laugh at an effeminate child!”

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Hysterical Open Letter From N’SYNC Star “Joey Fatone” To One Direction

Former N’Sync member Joey Fatone has lived the boy-band phenomenon to the max. I mean REALLY lived it.

So if anyone would have the inner wisdom on life as a “BB-er” it’s Fatone.

In light of the news that One Direction has announced a one year “hiatus,” a writer at AboveAverage named Joanna Bradley penned a faux letter of advice from Joey to the 1D guys.

Joey Fatone is actually in the middle of shooting a new “steampunk, futuristic, zombie/cowboy” flick titled DEAD 7 out in Montana somewhere with fellow boybanders Nick Carter, Erik Estrada, AJ McLean, Chris Kirkpatrick and tons of other BBers. He’s a bit busy these days 🙂


 In any case, the “open letter” hysterical, AND packed with some reality juice.

From 991FreshRadio:

Dear Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles,

Hey guys. It’s Joey Fatone, former member of NSync and current announcer on Family Feud, the job I’ve always dreamed of. This weekend, while sitting on the toilet and crying (I LOVE MY LIFE!!!) I flipped through my iPhone and saw that you’d announced a “one-year hiatus” beginning in March. I just wanted to congratulate you guys and wish you well! I’m sure 2016 will be a wonderful time for everyone from One Direction to pursue some independent projects before regrouping as a stronger band one year later! Here’s to spreading your wings!

HAHAHAHA, PSYCH.

Here’s how it’s gonna go down, fellas. While you’re all on hiatus, Harry will record some dope singles with Beyonce, Ryan Adams and Wiz Khalifa, come out with a killer solo album produced by Pharrell and Timbaland, cut his hair, dye his hair, do a second less awesome album, let his hair grow super long and wear it in two braids, crush a self-effacing cameo in a Judd Apatow movie, buzz his hair and release a third, self-produced album on which he hints at being bisexual that everyone will call his “best work.”

The rest of you are fucked. I mean fucked. I am the second most-successful former member of NSync and I am Joey Fatone. Say that outloud to yourself: “Besides Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone is the most successful member of NSync.”

Here’s me being a spokesman for Bosley hair restoration last year:

Best case scenario, you’ll do a 6-week stint in Minions: The Musical! on Broadway before you bounce around different hosting jobs on channels like Spike and TruTv. Do you know what Chris Kirkpatrick is doing? Because I don’t. He’s completely unreachable. He might be managing a Best Buy in Sacramento, he might be dead. No one knows. Louis, I’m looking at you.

There is one exception: If one of you is gay you might have a shot. Wait till One Direction has been dead for two years, kiss your hot boyfriend at an awards show, then ride that relevance like a beautiful boner and pray to god you get a show on Bravo.

It’s not that you guys aren’t talented, it’s that Harry is so, so much cuter, cooler and more talented than the rest of you. Deep down, you’ve always known that, but you will never truly understand it until you’re in your grimy little condo, sitting in your boxers, sucking a chow mein noodle off your Playstation controller and watching Harry blow it up on SNL.

Jesus christ I wish I was still in NSync. Jesus…JESUS FUCK! I would give all my hair to go back to that.

Anyway, enjoy the next few months, One Direction, because they’re your last.

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Satire: “Not Alone”

Spot on satire video on the current crop of folks whining and wailing about their “religious freedoms” being offended by the passage of marriage equality.

“You cannot have a society of hatred, or a society of bigotry, unless, I mean, you know, you’re me and my friends”

Here’s the original video (from Catholic Vote) as described by AdWeek:

The ad, with a straight face, position Catholics as a persecuted group for not having their message of intolerance (here blatantly recast as its opposite) widely accepted these days.

It even plays like a coming-out video for Catholics who are afraid to take the “brave” step of voicing their objection to equality.

That’s a pretty audacious tactic—disingenuous and disrespectful, to say the least.

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Short Film: “Out Smart”

What if coming out “smart” was the same as coming out as gay today? Filmmakers Dawn Cobalt and Andrew Bryan Smith present this short film satire:

In our short film “Out Smart,” a teenage boy faces his parents’ shock and outrage when he “comes out.” He’s not gay, though. He’s smart!

We made the film as a tool to talk about coming out. “Out Smart” satirizes the most common objections made to those who come out LGBT.

We hope this unusual context makes these remarks seem as ridiculous and hurtful as they are.

We also hope the not-yet-out LGBT person might feel emboldened by that — and certainly less alone.

Nearly 50 chapters of PFLAG nationwide have screened “Out Smart,” from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Kauai, Hawaii, and Juneau, Alaska. Schools and churches, too. It’s won 6 awards and 8 nominations and appeared in two dozen film festivals around the world.