Turning on Morning Joe today before I scuttled off to m'day job, I expected to see Joe Scarborough praising Sarah Palin up and down, as I performed my morning ritual of kicking myself for watching this crap. Instead, it seemed even worse—they had pulled in Chevy Chase and his wife to discuss their latest environmental initiative.
I loved Chevy back when I was a kid. Tell me you hated Fletch, and I'll paint LIAR on your front door in the middle of the night. OK, maybe I got a little weird there. Point being, Chevy was cool back in the National Lampoon's Vacation, Caddyshack, Seems Like Old Times, European Vacation days. Now, since the epic wasteland years of Cops and Robbersons, Snow Day, Vegas Vacation, awful talk show, notsomuch. The interviews and performances he has given over the last two decades have been more cringe-inducing than funny, or insightful.
I expected no less from this interview, supposedly about he and his wife's environmental initiative. Joe's co-anchor Willie Geist warmed things up with a tangential opener asking how did Chevy like his SNL alum Tina Fey's impression of Sarah Palin from Saturday night.
"I thought it was extraordinary how well she played her and much she looked like her, I'd like her, personally I felt we didn't need the Hillary stuff, I'd like her to go even harder. I want her to decimate this woman. This woman, I can't believe there hasn't been more about it... It's just unbelievable to me this woman is actually running for vice president."
Willie then turned to Chevy's wife, Janey, to see what she had to say about their environmental initiative.
"Well, as a woman, I've been politically active all my life, and she's not speaking for me, I can tell you that."
Trying to steer the conversation away from the political, Geist asked Chase to reflect on his tenure at SNL some 30 years ago, and the role it has had in shaping our national discourse.
"Comedy is perspective. Sense of humor is how to gauge what's important, and what's less important. Therefore, if you can use these parodies as a vehicle for the satire, and say things, it's very important. And the more that the nation understands that McCain's lost his mind, the better it is, really."
Morning Joe himself stepped in that this point, asking Chase the diversionary question of how he was able to pull of playing Gerald Ford on the original season of SNL, when he looked nothing like him. Gee, how did you do it, Chevy?
"When we have the opportunity to get a Sarah Palin look-alike, which probably exists in every city in the country, I think it's good that we're using her. And what's more, Tina's brilliant, so I'm just hoping that she'll keep going at it until we have the information. And we want to know what Sarah knows, and when did she start knowing it?"
9/16/2008 1:58 AM
Z wrote:
Way to go Chevy! Wow, for a moment there he almost seemed relevant again. However, Fletch is still a terrible movie. Reply to this
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