Rick Ayers: Saturday Night Live: Old Fogies

Ah, the Huffington Post is abuzz with political blogs, Democratic primary blogs, national politics blogs. I tend to be more local - education, culture. But I'm getting into the spirit of this thing so here goes: I confess. I'm a boomer. I'm an old radical. What they call old white men - Gen Prostate. But I think we just have to face it. Saturday Night Live is a bunch of old fogies. They haven't been cutting edge for a few decades but they were at least, you know, young and stuff. They cast that critical eye at everything that was hypocritical and ridiculous in the American landscape. Early on, of course, they were part of the social revolution, part of the debunking of Nixonian self-importance in the mid-70's. The humorists were always the most truthful and the most radical - and usually the voice of the marginalized. From Groucho Marx to Lenny Bruce, Richard Prior to Chris Rock, Gilda Radner to Wanda Sykes, they laid the smack down. And, of course, in the dreadful interval ... (link)