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Progress? Boston media cliche has gone from blood-thirsty mobsters to vanilla-nut-tapping construction guys
By adamg on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 2:47pm
Ari Ofsevit noticed certain similarities between this past Saturday's Bill Burr Boston skit on Saturday Night Live and the 2016 Casey Affleck Boston skit on the show - in particular, the guy in the hi-viz jacket who, just like four years ago, winds up getting shoved into some shelving.
Not everybody was pleased.
I hate when they do that, some of us have the yellow vests pic.twitter.com/B6IV3d6uCX
— John Corbett (@johncorbett39) October 12, 2020
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Both were amusing
But they definitely have some lazy writers.
These kind of Boston accent
These kind of Boston accent skits are getting tired and old now,
Which is why this never gets
Which is why this never gets old
https://youtu.be/rLwbzGyC6t4
It's a pretty easy process these days
I laffed
Not too lowbrow for me, no sir.
Sam Adams
Their Your Cousin from Boston campaign is the gold standard for how (greater) Bostonians are depicted in media.
Bud, Miller, and Coors forgot how to make beer commercials funny. Sam reminded them.
Timing
Was this before or after they forgot how to make beer?
Did they ever learn?
In the first place?
To paraphrase the Bud Light limo guy
“Yes, they did.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Co_Ph6zvPNY
The best part
is Bill Burr probably hasn't set foot in MA in like a decade at least.
You'll notice all the big movie/tv/music/comedy stars from MA have done nothing over the past 20 or so years to save venues, rehearsal spaces, clubs or do anything else to support the dying scene that propelled them all to stardom and their millions of dollars. They all live in LA now and could give a shit except to draw from that endless well of cliche for their SNL appearances.
Good times....
You'd think in writing the sketch he would have corrected someone there about Sam Adams being brewed in Boston. Its all brewed in PA and OH.
Ah, yet again, everything
Ah, yet again, everything that's in Boston is someone else's fault and someone else's responsibility to fix.
He comes around
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2015/05/18/bill-burr-sets-re...
https://www.travisroyfoundation.org/laughing-with-your-buddies-2019-bill...
Depends what you're drinking
If you're in Boston and drinking a brand new variety, there's a pretty decent chance it was actually brewed in Boston.
Think of it as an homage, and the vest an Easter egg.
Having Mikey Day reprise the role from the earlier one clearly shows they are aware of the similarities and that is a nod to it. Honestly, what's the problem here again?
Isn't he supposed to be the same character?
It's pretty clearly supposed to be a sequel of sorts to the earlier sketch.
Cry me a river
Have these people heard of punching up vs. punching down? This is arguably not very clever, but it's poking fun at white locally born union types -- a group here with a lot of power. It's hardly oppressive or anything.
Cry you a river?
Mystic!
What are you responding to?
Where did anyone claim this was oppressive?
Hilarious!
Reese's Puff? What are you retahded? Go get some Stop & Shop cornflakes in the welfare bin.
Ah, yet again the Saturday
Ah, yet again the Saturday Night Live perspective cuts like a knife?