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Anonymous ID: b0c817 Oct. 11, 2020, 5:58 a.m. No.11023773   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3782 >>3795

Jim Carrey got Fly and Bill Burr got cancelled on a buzzy new 'SNL': 'How did you manage to be sexist, racist, and homophobic in under 5 minutes?'

 

Jeff Goldblum may not have been available, but Saturday Night Live still found a way to feature the former Fly as the most famous fly in America. The second episode of SNL’s 46th season opened with a recap of this week’s Vice Presidential debate, which was notoriously highjacked by a winged insect that opted to use Vice President Mike Pence’s head as a landing pad. Twitter was instantly flooded with memes taken from David Cronenberg’s 1986 horror classic, which starred Goldblum as a scientist who gets an infusion of fly DNA. SNL’s version also used that film as comic inspiration, but substituted Jim Carrey’s divisive Joe Biden in place of the universally liked Jurassic Park fan favorite.

 

Ethan Alter

Ethan Alter·Senior Writer, Yahoo Entertainment

Sat, October 10, 2020, 10:40 PM PDT

'SNL' host Bill Burr made some controversial jokes during his opening monologue (Photo: NBC/Twitter)

'SNL' host Bill Burr made some controversial jokes during his opening monologue (Photo: NBC/Twitter)

Jeff Goldblum may not have been available, but Saturday Night Live still found a way to feature the former Fly as the most famous fly in America. The second episode of SNL’s 46th season opened with a recap of this week’s Vice Presidential debate, which was notoriously highjacked by a winged insect that opted to use Vice President Mike Pence’s head as a landing pad. Twitter was instantly flooded with memes taken from David Cronenberg’s 1986 horror classic, which starred Goldblum as a scientist who gets an infusion of fly DNA. SNL’s version also used that film as comic inspiration, but substituted Jim Carrey’s divisive Joe Biden in place of the universally liked Jurassic Park fan favorite.

 

For the first part of the sketch, Carrey’s Biden was watching on the couch as his running mate, Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris, made so much mincemeat out of Beck Bennett’s outmatched Pence. “I’m speaking,” Rudolph said, directly quoting one of her real-life counterpart’s most famous quotes from the actual debate. She also had a strategy for how to make her point even when silent. “I’m going to fix my face so you don’t know what I’m thinking, but every black woman at home knows what I’m thinking.”

 

Eventually, a leading question from Kate McKinnon’s Susan Page about court packing led Biden to jump into action, hopping into the same kind of teleporter that Goldblum’s doomed brainiac entered three decades ago. And, once again, a fly came along for the ride. The gimmick ultimately resulted in Jim Carrey doing an impression of Joe Biden doing an impression of Jeff Goldblum, saying lines like: “Your economy is so in the toilet, I want to lay my eggs on it!” And boy did that hall of mirrors trick tickle Twitter’s fancy.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jim-carrey-jeff-goldblum-fly-bill-burr-cancelled-snl-054028265.html

Anonymous ID: b0c817 Oct. 11, 2020, 6:40 a.m. No.11024012   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4054

Pope, Orange Comms.

 

Pope in TED talk: Earth cannot be squeezed 'like an orange’

 

Francis laid out three paths of action: promoting education about the environment “based on scientific data and an ethical approach," assuring drinking water and an adequate food supply through sustainable agriculture and promoting the transformation from fossil fuels to clean energy sources.

 

“We have just a few years — scientists calculate roughly fewer than 30 — to drastically reduce the emissions of gas and the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere," the pope said, adding that the transition needs to take into account the impact on the poor, local populations and those who work in the energy sector.

 

He called on investors to exclude companies that do not taking into account the environment, as have many faith-based organizations already have.

 

“In fact, the earth must be taken care of, cultivated and protected; we cannot continue to squeeze it like anorange.And we can say this, taking care of the Earth is a human right,” Francis said.

 

The six-hour Countdown Global Launch is TED's first-ever free conference, featuring as hosts such figures as Jane Fonda, Don Cheadle and Al Gore, with speakers including Prince William of Britain and Ursula von der Leyen, a leading European Union official

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-ted-talk-earth-cannot-203123243.html