What is Saturday Night Live Goes Political?

It’s hard to believe, but Saturday Night Live has survived 20 years of dishing up some pret- ty sketchy sketch comedy. Often times it made us laugh hysterically, but just as often, it made us wonder why. Amazingly, Berkeley Systems manages to create the same effect with this title that is comprised of some 300 video clips taken from the show’s archives.

You’ll find classic moments: Gilda Radner as Baba Wawa and Dana Carvey as President Bush mouthing off cliches (“Stay the course. A thousand points of light.”) during the 1988 elections. You’ll also find a do-nothing corkboard with political campaign buttons. By the time you find the clickable buttons, you’ve lost interest in the simple audio reward, anyway.

To add variety, Berkeley Systems includes four simple arcade-style games which come off as unentertaining as SNL’s entire ‘95 season.

True fans of Saturday Night Live may enjoy this collection of clips, if not for the sheer nostalgia, then for the one or two clips that really make you laugh out loud. Smart fans, however, will simply continue to program their VCRs and tune in to the real thing on Saturday night.

Lewenthal, J., Simmons, M., Vanderhoof, A. (September 1996). Saturday Night Live Goes Political. MacAddict. (pg. 71).

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Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II