Let's Be Real

It has been at least 20 years since I watched a "sketch" comedy that made made fun of politicians and celebrities regardless of their political leanings. I am in my 50's and I enjoyed SNL up until about 1999 because they mocked everyone equally. I miss those simpler times where people could laugh at themselves, laugh at comedy (realizing it is comedy) and not get offended by way too many innocuous things.

In other words, you can mock my favorite politician(s) or his/her opponents equally and I can laugh at it all if it is done well.

The previews/trailers for the show were not good and missed the mark. I only watched it by chance, so Fox might want to rethink their commercials for the show.

Im sorry but its not left leaning or right leaning it skewers both now if you think Biden is the greatest thing since sliced bread you will be unhappy same if you think Trump is the second coming you will feel the same and write silly reviews. Ill call out left leaning comedy and one sided shows or virtue signaling for its sake but this isnt it Give it time and watch it alot of the humor is in the dialogue its not physical comedy even though they use puppets. Now some skits are hit and miss thats why the 8 stars but im guessing alot of people didnt get the humor as alot of it is political and dry humor Reminds me alot of shows like Veep or British humor if your not paying attention you will miss the joke because you have to think about it and be up to date on current events. Give it a chance watch first two then go back and watch again after a week.

This show is wrong on so many levels. First it dares to offend hallowed personages who have devoted their lives to enriching others with their special talents in exchange for mere political power, often in the guise of public duty

Secondly, it does so with puppetry---a noble talent that should never be wasted on simple lampoonage (don't bother looking up the word; it's in the urban dictionary). Puppets have their own culture and it should never be appropriated by cis-carbon life forms.

There are many other levels of wrong with this parody that parades as serious satire. Like its use of humor to minimize actual real problems that are literally serious, like celebrity feelings and politician altruism and athlete platforms.

Just because the guy responsible for this travesty is the same guy who gave us the iconic Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, he has no right to skewer ideas and ideologues that we all depend on for guidance. I say, "Smigel, Schmigel!" Has he ever contributed anything to the world other than a quick-witted Rottweiler?

A recent Pew poll shows that 42% of Americans "don't really prefer" comedy that questions established facts. And another 26% think that polls are misleading when they ask leading questions. So you do the math.

In summation, I suggest that we all stick with our exotic island-based reality shows and our hard news shows for real comedy.

I just saw the first episode, but I thought it was refreshingly hilarious. Not laughing at a show called "Naked and Afraid with Ted Cruz" would be really hard. The puppets look great too.

Seems like most (all?) of the 1-star reviews are just from conservatives who 1) don't understand satire 2) think everyone is out to get them 3) still believe the election was stolen.

It's important to realize, though, that "people" like Trump and Ted Cruz are already caricatures and puppets, so portraying them as actual puppet caricatures seems somewhat unnecessary, and as such, some of the jokes involving them just fall flat.

The impressions are well-done, in the sense that the voices are realistic, but there is more cringe than humor in a lot of these sketches. I expected a bit more from Smigel, really.