The folks at Saturday Night Live apparently think Donald Trump is still the president. Even though the 2020 election was over two years ago, the show’s cold opens make fun of Trump more than the current president, Joe Biden.
FOX News reports:
‘SNL’ cold opens satirize Trump more than Biden despite being out of office for two years“Saturday Night Live” continues scaling back its mockery of President Biden in his first two years of office instead taking more aim at a former president who the liberal sketch comedy show cannot let go.For decades, the “SNL” cold opens satirize the week’s biggest news story, which often involves the president. That’s no longer the case with Biden, who has only been mocked seven times across 43 episodes that have aired during his presidency, just one time during the current 48th season so far, which took place the Saturday before the midterms. That’s less than 17% of the time.Former President Trump, meanwhile, has appeared ten times in those 43 episodes, more than 23% of them, including four times in the current season.Both the current and former presidents are played by “SNL” cast member James Austin Johnson, who joined the long-running NBC program in 2021.In the first show of 2023 following the emergence of Biden’s classified document scandal where he admitted to storing sensitive records in his garage next to his corvette, “SNL” chose to instead mock embattled freshman Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., in the cold open.Even defeated GOP candidates Kari Lake and Herschel Walker have made more appearances in the 48th season than the sitting president with two cold opens apiece.
Do you really believe that the writers at SNL just can’t find a way to satirize Joe Biden? Please. The man is a walking comedy sketch.
Tim Graham of NewsBusters has more:
In the Trump years, their fake president was played by Alec “Gunslinger” Baldwin, so it was never gentle. Wulfsohn noted that Obama was more commonly treated in the cold-open than Biden: “In the first two years of his presidency, Obama, played by former cast member Fred Armisen, made 18 appearances across 44 episodes, roughly 41% of the time.”The Fox reporter also noticed that Kamala Harris (previously played by Maya Rudolph, who talked Kamala up as a superhero) hasn’t been included in any cold opens during the Biden presidency, “despite her lengthy track record of gaffes and ‘word salad’ moments from pressers and interviews that have gone viral.” Rudolph has played Kamala in just one mid-show sketch in March 2021
This trend began in the Obama years. When Obama was featured as a character on SNL, it was almost always presented in a good-hearted way. Obama was not mocked.
In the years since it has only gotten worse. SNL used to be for the enjoyment of all Americans. Today, it functions like a Democrat party super PAC.
If you want to see the mockery of Biden, you need to watch the ‘Gutfeld!’ show, where Tom Shillue does an excellent job of lampooning Joe:
In 2018, I was widely mocked by liberal media for a column I wrote for Townhall, suggesting that conservatives need their own Saturday Night Live.
I stand by the premise of that piece.
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