![]() The streets in the area had been filled with demonstrators supporting each candidate. ![]() In response to the press conference, a Four Seasons-themed charity run was created, and the landscaping company capitalized on the newfound attention by selling T-shirts and other merchandise.Īfter Election Day on November 3, 2020, Philadelphia election officials had set up absentee ballot counting efforts in the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City, as downtown Philadelphia is known locally. ![]() It resulted in lawyers withdrawing from the legal team that the Trump campaign had assembled to challenge the election results. It garnered further ridicule after it emerged that one of the witnesses who spoke at the event was a convicted sex offender. The event was ridiculed by journalists and users of social media. Several news outlets characterized the event as the symbolic end of Trump's presidency. Shortly after Giuliani began talking to the assembled reporters, the Associated Press projected Biden as the winner of the Pennsylvania vote and thus the nationwide election. This site selection led to speculation that the Trump campaign meant to book the upscale Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia, five city blocks from the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where Philadelphia's ballots were being counted. Many journalists and others quickly observed a comical aspect to its location, near a sex shop and a crematorium. The site of the press conference, a local landscaping business, was unexpected. The event was held at the company's garage door and parking lot to discuss the status of the Trump campaign's legal challenges to the ballot-counting process in the state, where the president's apparent lead over Joe Biden in the first ballots counted had shifted to a shortfall as mailed-in ballots were counted for Philadelphia, historically a heavily Democratic city. It just did.On November 7, 2020, four days after the United States presidential election, Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City and an attorney for then-president Donald Trump, hosted a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a small business in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Near Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It’s hard to explain why Sookie from Gilmore Girls on a motorized podium took the world by storm in 2017, but it’s hard to explain a lot of things that happened in 2017. In eighth place is Melissa McCarthy as then-press secretary Sean Spicer. ![]() It’s very good, and the quality plus the timing plus Hanks in Trump apparel make it the third most-viewed SNL sketch. The twist of the sketch is, Hanks’ MAGA guy has more in common with the Black contestants than anyone expected. He even wears a “Make America Great Again” hat in case you didn’t pick up the implication of the dot dot dot. Both sketches have the same premise - a white person appears on an otherwise all-Black Jeopardy! hosted by Kenan Thompson’s Darnell Hayes, except instead of “Potent Potables,” the categories are “Had That Been Me” and “Aw Hell Naw” - but the Hanks “Black Jeopardy!” debuted in 2016 and things were… different. “Black Jeopardy” first aired in 2014 with guest host Louis C.K., but it didn’t become a sensation until its third appearance with Tom Hanks. “Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks” (#3 with 63 million views) The categories: Politics, Pop Culture, and Horniness. So once I got over the shock of “Papyrus” only having 16 million views, I noticed that SNL‘s 10 most-watched videos, all with over 32 million views, can be separated into three categories - with one exception. The 20 most popular videos are nearly all from the last six years, when more and more people started consuming the Saturday night show on Sunday morning through viral clips instead of staying up until midnight. I went in thinking a classic like “More Cowbell” (17 million) or “Schweddy Balls” (6.3 million) would be near the top, but I didn’t consider the recency bias. If you’re this viewer (me, I’m the viewer), you spend too much time on the show’s YouTube page and sort every video on the channel by views. ![]() The other cast members and writers ( and creator Lorne Michaels) have had a busy off-season, too, but this post isn’t about that - it’s about what an SNL viewer does when there’s no new episodes. This summer break alone, Cecily Strong has a lead role in the Apple TV+ musical Schmigadoon! Pete Davidson is a member of Task Force X in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad Kate McKinnon is filming a Joe Exotic show Kenan Thompson and Aidy Bryant were nominated for Emmys Ego Nwodim joined HBO Max’s Love Life anthology series Colin Jost has stayed in the headlines because of his Disney-suing wife, Scarlett Johansson and his Weekend Update co-anchor shared remarkably tone-deaf jokes on social media. Saturday Night Live has an uncanny ability to stay in the news, even when there hasn’t been a new episode in months and won’t be back until the fall. ![]()
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