I personally don’t find this sketch particularly funny or shocking, but it caused an enormous stir in the US,and was pulled and allegedly banned by in its earlier form by NBC, possibly and speculatively because it allegedly implies that a Hungarian philanthropist was largely responsible for the collapse of the US financial system. If so, I’m sort of with the kindly Magyar on this one. Even though I’m prepared to believe he might have had a taste of the action in some form or another – his Quantum Fund played a prominent role in the speculative raid on Sterling which several years ago forced Britain to exit the European Exchange Rate Mechanism - it is a little too much like a bad Hollywood plot to load the blame onto the sinister Eastern European figure.
The entire thing is mild beyond belief to us old time Spitting Image warhorses, and much milder than the average episode of South Park. 2009 is the 20th anniversary year of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It’s ironic that the US has succumbed to Iron Curtain censorship. Watch it here: http://msunderestimated.com/SNLBailoutSkit.wmv
John J Kelly
