RIP Sinead O'Connor

[Webster]

The Piscopo imitation may have been better but the tone of the writing and the Hartman delivery are just fantastic.

 

[Slacker]

Entire sketch added to nail down Epic Threadjack posterity ...

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

When he calls her "Uncle Fester...."

 

[Slacker]

When he calls her "Uncle Fester...."

That is when I fell out of my chair LMAO during the original broadcast.

Hartman was off-the-charts brilliant all the way through. And all that while directing the action and setting up everyone else.

 

[Slacker]

To continue the Epic Threadjack, this sketch gets overlooked in the Hartman canon, but it's a great one, too.

The comedic timing between Hartman and Lovitz is outstanding. Glad this one is included on SNL's "Phil Hartman's Greatest Hits" CD.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

your message board frightens and confuses me

 

[Regan MacNeil]

 

[Tighthead]

Good clip from her early days, before all the noise around her. I wish she'd had an easier ride.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

 

[Slacker]

Good clip from her early days, before all the noise around her. I wish she'd had an easier ride.

A quote from the comments section that resonates even more today ...

@johnvasquez7738
2 months ago

When I drink a few I can't help but listen to her beautiful voice and songs... Everytime Everytime....my kids and wife think I'm bananas but the other day I walked in in my son lifting weights with don't cry for me Argentina playing and I knew that the passion for her music has been passed down to the next generation

 

[Slacker]

And an interesting passage from her Wiki page ...

On 26 March 2010, O'Connor appeared on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° to speak out about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland. On 28 March 2010, she had an opinion piece published in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post in which she wrote about the scandal and her time in a Magdalene laundry as a teenager. Writing for the Sunday Independent she labelled the Vatican as "a nest of devils" and called for the establishment of an "alternative church", opining that "Christ is being murdered by liars" in the Vatican. Shortly after the election of Pope Francis, she said:

Well, you know, I guess I wish everyone the best, and I don't know anything about the man, so I'm not going to rush to judge him on one thing or another, but I would say he has a scientifically impossible task, because all religions, but certainly the Catholic Church, is really a house built on sand, and it's drowning in a sea of conditional love, and therefore it can't survive, and actually the office of Pope itself is an anti-Christian office, the idea that Christ needs a representative is laughable and blasphemous at the same time, therefore it is a house built on sand, and we need to rescue God from religion, all religions, they've become a smokescreen that distracts people from the fact that there is a holy spirit, and when you study the Gospels you see the Christ character came to tell us that we only need to talk directly to God, we never needed Religion...

Asked whether from her point of view, it is therefore irrelevant who is elected to be pope, O'Connor replied:

Genuinely I don't mean disrespect to Catholic people because I believe in Jesus Christ, I believe in the Holy Spirit, all of those, but I also believe in all of them, I don't think it cares if you call it Fred or Daisy, you know? Religion is a smokescreen, it has everybody talking to the wall. There is a Holy Spirit who can't intervene on our behalf unless we ask it. Religion has us talking to the wall. The Christ character tells us himself: you must only talk directly to the Father; you don't need intermediaries. We all thought we did, and that's ok, we're not bad people, but let's wake up... God was there before religion; it's there [today] despite religion; it'll be there when religion is gone.

Tatiana Kavelka wrote about O'Connor's later Christian work, describing it as "theologically charged yet unorthodox, oriented toward interfaith dialogue and those on the margins."

 

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