I don't need y'all treating me this way: Tom Hanks insults the Heartland on SNL anniversary special

I've been to Georgia on a fast train, honey.
I wa'n't born no yesterday.
I got a good Christian raisin' and an eighth-grade education.
Ain't no need in y'all a treatin' me this way.

Georgia on a Fast Train

Billy Shaver, songwriter

Sung by Johnny Cash

Tom Hanks gratuitously insulted white Americans in SNL's televised 50th-anniversary celebration a few days ago. In a sketch titled Black Jeopardy, Hanks played a Forrest Gump-style white guy with a hick accent and MAGA hat. To drive home the point that MAGA Republicans are racists, Hanks's character pointedly refused to shake hands with a black man.

Perhaps Hanks sensed folks living in Flyover Country have stopped attending Hollywood movies and figured it was safe to make fun of the rubes. If so, he's right. I'll never watch another Tom Hanks film.

Hanks is clueless about a significant cultural shift across America. He probably thought he was ridiculing a marginal group when, in fact, it is Hanks and the coastal elites who are marginalized.

Hanks, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and a host of wealthy celebrities and media luminaries were just fine with a nation headed by Joe Biden,  a demented crook, and his giggling idiot sidekick, Kamala Harris. After all, the elites are wealthy; the system works just fine for them.

The rest of us, however, are concerned about fentanyl flowing across the southern border, Social Security checks going out to dead centenarians, and the senseless war in Ukraine. People who buy their own groceries are alarmed by the spike in food prices.

Millions of Americans are waking up to the fact that Anthony Fauci hoodwinked us with the COVID vaccines. No wonder Fauci thinks he needs Uncle Sam's security protection.

It's time for people in Flyover Country to boycott the vacuous cultural garbage being spewed out by people who hate their audiences. The richness and vitality of American culture is in the Heartland, not Manhattan or Hollywood.

To put it another way, "Stupid is as stupid does," and the coastal elites are stupid to disdain the people who made them successful. And that, as Forrest Gump might say, is all I have to say about that.

Kiss my ass, Tom Hanks

SNL's 50th Anniversary Show: Bingo Night at the Nursing Home

 I watched Saturday Night Live's  50th Anniversary Show last night on NBC, one of the Deep State's propaganda networks. Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Andy Hoglund described the program as "the ultimate victory lap--a night packed with nostalgia, humor, and some surprise moments."

Hoglund and I live on different planets. I found the show tedious, self-congratulatory, and distinctly unfunny.

In the "Scared Straight" sketch," Will Ferrell and Eddie Murphy, playing incarcerated criminals, repeatedly made jokes about anal rape in prison. Who found that funny?

A satire on the Lawrence Welk Show portrayed a disfigured thalidomide victim dancing provocatively. I didn't laugh.

Robert De Niro showed up for a cameo appearance--the avuncular De Niro, not the Trump-hating angry grandpa. Someone needs to tell SNL that inserting a faded celebrity in a sketch doesn't make it funny.

And then there was Lil Wayne's rap performance, which Hoglund described as "the superior musical medley of the night."  

That was a musical medley? Thanks for enlightening me. I thought it was an atonal, incoherent rant. I guess you've got to be a coastal elite to appreciate Lil Wayne's charms.

Finally, I found Tom Hanks's "In Memoriam" intro mildly offensive. Before showing a montage of sketches featuring racial and ethnic stereotypes, Hank suggested that the audience should be canceled for laughing.

The audience for last night's SNL homage didn't include representatives of the show's millions of fans. No, the auditorium was packed with celebrities from days gone by: Cher, Keith Richards, Al Sharpton, Alec Baldwin, etc. 

Hoglund called the production "the ultimate victory lap."  I would describe it as Bingo Night at the Nursing Home.

There was a time when SNL entertained Flyover Country and made the yokels laugh. Now, the glitterati of Manhattan only entertain each other and laugh at the rest of us.

Thalidomide isn't funny