Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live opened their show with a sketch about the congressional hearings on anti-Semitism on campus last week. Despite the obviously disastrous performance of all three presidents, the show went out of their way to mock New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik instead. Some people are now calling on the show to apologize.
As Mary pointed out earlier this week, the actress who was supposed to portray Stefanik backed out at the last minute. She made the right decision.
The New York Post reports:
‘SNL’ faces calls to apologize for sketch that mocked Elise Stefanik — instead of university presidents“Saturday Night Live” is facing mounting calls to apologize — and even be officially investigated — over its tone-deaf sketch making light of university presidents refusing to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews.“This is really appalling,” Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a “historian of Israel and Jews” and a visiting professor at the University of Haifa in Israel, wrote of Saturday’s cold open.“NBC do you think antisemitism is acceptable as the punchline of a joke about American society?” the historian asked.“This needs to be investigated by the [Federal Communications Commission],” she urged, tagging the federal agency.Many demanded an apology for the sketch, which poked fun at US Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for demanding the university leaders answer to outrage at their failure to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews on campuses.“After a day of much-deserved backlash, one would think SNL would delete this video and apologize for their antisemitism,” business attorney Krista Nicole posted on X.
Even the head of the liberal ADL thought it was obnoxious.
From The Hill:
ADL head criticizes ‘Saturday Night Live’ antisemitism hearing skit: ‘Atrocious’The head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) joined a number of others online in sharply criticizing a “Saturday Night Live” (“SNL”) skit that mocked House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik’s (N.Y.) line of questioning at a hearing last week on antisemitism at elite universities.“The skit was atrocious. The sentiment even more appalling,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote Sunday on X, formerly Twitter, in response to a clip of the “SNL” cold open.
One rabbi who spoke to FOX News called the sketch toxic.
‘SNL’ mocking Stefanik instead of college presidents was a ‘complete breakdown of comedy’NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” was widely criticized over the weekend after the show’s cold open spoofed Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., instead of the controversial testimony of the college presidents about antisemitism on their campuses.Rabbi Shmuel Reichman, author of “The Journey to Your Ultimate Self,” believes the “embarrassing” skit is proof that liberal ideology has become both hypocritical and toxic.”What we have, basically, here is one of the most fascinating expressions of a complete breakdown of morality, but also a real expression of what postmodernism has become,” Reichman told Fox News Digital.
Here’s the sketch in case you missed it.
The calls for the show to apologize are justified.
I like sketch comedy, and before anyone calls me a snowflake, let me just say that I support the idea of comics mocking public figures, but this is part of a broader problem at Saturday Night Live that has been going on for years.
The show has always leaned left, but for a little over a decade now, the show has decided that Republicans must be the butt of every joke. They are always portrayed as the stupid, evil, and backward bad guys, even in a situation like this. The show used to be for the enjoyment of all Americans, but has been turned into a political weapon that only cuts one way. The left knows this, which is why they cheered when Tina Fey mocked Sarah Palin and booed when Donald Trump was ‘allowed’ to host the show.
For the eight years of the Obama presidency, Obama himself was off-limits, unless they were making fun of him in a light way and mocking Republicans more harshly at the same time. One writer for the show even said in an interview that it was too difficult to make fun of Obama.
Whenever I bring this up, a handful of conservatives will inevitably tell me that the show hasn’t been funny in years and that they stopped watching decades ago. That’s fine, but it doesn’t change the fact that millions of other Americans still do watch the show, and form some of their political opinions based on what they see. Like it or not, the show still has some influence.
I wrote a column for Townhall in 2018, calling for the creation of a conservative SNL type show, for which I was widely mocked by the left.
I stand by my column. At a time when the Daily Wire and other right-leaning outlets are investing serious time and money in cultural pursuits like movies and children’s programming, the time has never been better. The ‘cool kids’ at SNL do not own comedy. It’s time to give the American people an alternative that doesn’t hate half of the country.
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