Glenn Beck on SNL?
Mediaite’s Glynnis MacNicol thinks Glenn Beck should guest host SNL. File this under the heading of “pipedream”…
Someone at 30 Rock needs to approach Glenn Beck and ask him to host SNL, pronto. They could use Beck’s opener today in lieu of an audition tape. The White House’s decision to treat Fox News as an opponent might just be the best gift Beck has ever received; between the red phone on set, the grip whose job it is to sit beside it in case the White House calls, the chalkboard, and Beck’s impressions, his opener this evening may have been the best 20 minutes of television you’ll see all day.
Lorne Michaels would need balls of steel to even attempt to lure Beck onto the program considering the pushback he’d get from corporate given the intense feuding between MSNBC/GE and FNC..
October 14, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Considering the dismal performance of NBC’s weeknight comedy shows, you’d think they’d try to get Beck on to defibrillate the Leno and O’Brien shows, too.
October 15, 2009 at 8:00 am
Imus and Chris Wallace discussing the White House giving Fox News Channel the Cold Shoulder.
Is MSNBC nervous about Mourning Joe?
Imus, I can see MSNBC from my window.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/10/imus-i-can-see-msnbc-from-my-window.html
October 15, 2009 at 5:28 pm
I would be interesting to see Beck do this – he could pull it off. However, doing it would erode from the legitimacy of his show, especially if he did a self-parody on SNL.
October 17, 2009 at 6:43 am
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October 17, 2009 at 7:14 am
Why not? He’s a walking joke as it is now. He’d fit right in over there at SNL (except he’s a better actor than the SNL cast. Why he can even cry on demand”.