I Just Can’t Get Enough

The big news this week is not that Donald Trump is still an actual candidate for president, but that Saturday Night Live let him host last weekend. I mean, I’m as grossed out by Trump as the next woman, minority, immigrant, democrat or human with a brain, but I sure as hell was not going to skip the trainwreck to participate in some fruitless protest. Shouldn’t people be more upset that he’s running for president than that he appeared for probably 30 minutes total on a late-night sketch comedy show?

Anyway, the best part of the night, yet again, was Larry David. The reprisal of his impeccable Bernie Sanders impression set the show off and SNL even used David to joke about the protest — rumors swirled that one organization would pay $5,000 to anyone in the studio audience who yelled “racist” at The Donald during the show. Larry David is the Tina Fey of this presidential election.

Beyond that, most sketches poked fun at Trump in various aspects and many didn’t feature him at all. I was honestly more offended by the Trump-less, dated skit spoofingof M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls” video — which came out almost four years ago.

Highlights that don’t include America’s Daddy Warbucks:

• Jay Pharaoh’s Drake impression in the “Hotline Bling” skit
• SIA!
• Trump’s daughter Ivanka’s applause-less cameo. WOMP WOMP (she so pretty tho)
• Drunk Uncle
• Martin Short’s Ed Grimley randomly showed up in the Drake sketch. This just in: “Hotline Bling” is the new “Uptown Funk.” IT’S OVER.
• Anything Beck Bennett did — he and Kyle Mooney need their own weird show.

And the publicity stunt brought the show higher ratings than it’s had in years.

I like pugs. I also like TV. So…

A local ice sculptor (#professiongoals) is competing on Food Network’s Christmas Cake Wars.

Aziz Ansari ‘s new Netflix show, Master of None, is amazing. A true gem. Watch it now. You will accidentally watch the entire season, but it’s OK. Playing a version of himself, the show goes into a lot of race issues — casting minorities, minority actors stuck in stereotypical roles, stuff like that. One conversation Dev (Aziz) has with a fellow Indian actor touches on Fisher Stevens’ brownfaced role as an Indian in the Short Circuit movies, and how even when there are minorities represented on TV, it’s often by someone of another race. But I swear, it’s really hilarious…

This week Aziz wrote about the topic of race in Hollywood for the New York Times and even interviewed Stevens about the now-controversial role.

We’ve been waiting for this ever since her surprise performance at the Super Bowl, and now, Missy Elliott is BACK!

Snoop Dogg getting his own brand of weed products.

Oh, and about the not-controversial Starbucks cup controversy, D.J. Tanner says they aren’t offensive. So I think we can all move on now.

This article appears in Nov 11-17, 2015.