Along with Key & Peele, Saturday Night Live also uses satire heavily in their skits. Saturday Night live has been running for over thirty years and has gotten many awards so it is obvious that they are pretty good with satire. SNL often uses satire to mock current events, including a lot of political events. Here is a skit from around the time of the 2008 presidential election that mocks an interview Sarah Palin did with Katie Couric.
This is a good example of how SNL used parodies to criticize how politicians operate. By responding to the question with a flurry of incoherent buzzwords and buzzphrases, SNL makes the case that politics can be boiled down to a shouting match about just a few issues rather than a way to deal with new and complex issues. Though, as we see later in the video, it's not so much a parody as it is a reenactment, which is pretty scary to think about.
This is a good example of how SNL used parodies to criticize how politicians operate. By responding to the question with a flurry of incoherent buzzwords and buzzphrases, SNL makes the case that politics can be boiled down to a shouting match about just a few issues rather than a way to deal with new and complex issues. Though, as we see later in the video, it's not so much a parody as it is a reenactment, which is pretty scary to think about.
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