I have to say that last night, for the first time that I can ever remember, Saturday Night Live seemed a bit like a TV show for New Yorkers. Even though Tina Fey's bit about Hillary Clinton was kind of funny, the point is, she was also shilling for a candidate on the program. It's not that I wouldn't expect SNL to be rooting for Clinton - after all, they are in New York City and she's their U.S. Senator. But I would think they could be more subtle about it.
On the other hand, I quit watching SNL regularly a long time ago because they had lost their subtlety, and because in the past 10 years, at their very, very best, they could only achieve kind of funny. It is amazing that for over a decade, SNL has been unable to accomplish comedy at a weekly level reaching what The Daily Show or Conan O'Brien has done on a daily level. They get more time, and somehow, that time is wasted every week on horrible sketches and forgettable performers. It is time for NBC to give somebody else a chance at that time slot, and quit wasting it on a 21st Century Ed Sullivan Show.
The only other comedian I know who uses his program to DIRECTLY ask people to vote for A candidate is Rush Limbaugh.
I was surprised and my daughter asked me, "What do they have against Obama?" I honestly don't know.