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A Petition Urges NBC To Revoke Its Invitation For Donald Trump To Host Saturday Night Live
We're looking at recent instances of TV wearing its Bad Idea Jeans in Lunch And A Show!
NBC must have assumed the recently announced decision to invite Donald Trump to host Saturday Night Live would make headlines, but possibly not ones as embarrassing as this one: a coalition of Latino activist groups have teamed up with MoveOn.org to launch a petition campaign to urge NBC to revoke the invitation. The petition notes -- much as I did -- that it's just a little hypocritical that after the network fired him from The Apprentice over his racist comments about Mexican immigrants, it's giving him a platform to promote his racist presidential campaign. And while maybe SNL's producers would counter by saying they don't have time to line up another host now, if I know my New York-based talk shows, either Al Roker or Regis Philbin would be ready to serve as fill-ins on extremely short notice. The petition is up to 122,030 signatures as of this writing; go here if you'd like to help its sponsors reach their new goal of 125,000.
When it comes to bad ideas on TV, though, we've really got an embarrassment of riches from this weekend's crop of TV episodes -- so many, in fact, we have to run through them in point form!
The Knick: Treating cocaine addiction with heroin.
Shark Tank: Promoting the theory that men's butts need a different kind of wipe than everyone else's!
Homeland: Fighting terrorists by...going off your meds.
Beverly Hills, 90210: Dosing your boyfriend with ecstasy U4EA.
90 Day Fiancé: Marrying someone you don't know, like, at all.
Project Greenlight: Being Jason Mann.
PHEW. After all that, we could all use a good idea sorbet: SNL did a Democratic debate sketch and found the perfect guy to play Bernie Sanders.
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