Thread: Films & TV: Russian & Non - Q&As/Reviews/Links all in here!

Okay, so I don't know how this stereo type of humor comes across to Russians. So let me post this and then please comment. It is from Saturday Night Live and I can only find copies of the video from Hulu or on NBC's own Website (which I seem to recall people had trouble accessing in the past) so I am hoping that everyone can watch it. For those of you not familiar with Saturday Night Live, the weekly show parody contemporary culture and politics. It picks on Americans just as much, if not more than non-Americans. For example, the opening for last Saturday's show picked on the budget problems that we are having:

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Okay, so I don't know how this stereo type of humor comes across to Russians.

To me, not very well. But I don't think, in this case, it has much to do with picking on Russians.

The "bear with me" joke was funny.
"Who let the dogs out" joke was funny.
"Dog bite" joke would have been funny if I haven't heard it, or similar, many times before.
That's about it.