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*'''Michael Che''' (Joined 2014) | *'''Michael Che''' (Joined 2014) | ||
*Pete Davidson (Joined 2014) | *Pete Davidson (Joined 2014) | ||
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*Leslie Jones (Joined 2014) | *Leslie Jones (Joined 2014) | ||
*'''Colin Jost''' (Joined 2014) | *'''Colin Jost''' (Joined 2014) | ||
*Kate McKinnon (Joined 2012) | *Kate McKinnon (Joined 2012) | ||
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*Kyle Mooney (Joined 2013) | *Kyle Mooney (Joined 2013) | ||
*Cecily Strong (Joined 2012) | *Cecily Strong (Joined 2012) | ||
*Kenan Thompson (Joined 2003) | *Kenan Thompson (Joined 2003) | ||
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'''Featured Players''' | '''Featured Players''' | ||
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*Heidi Gardner (Joined 2017) | *Heidi Gardner (Joined 2017) | ||
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*Chris Redd (Joined 2017) | *Chris Redd (Joined 2017) | ||
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'''Bold''' denotes Weekend Update anchor. | '''Bold''' denotes Weekend Update anchor. | ||
Revision as of 22:51, April 21, 2019
Saturday Night Live (often shortened to just SNL) was an immensely popular sketch-comedy show starting in 1975 on NBC, but as it became more politically correct, it predictably became less funny starting in the 2000s. SNL's poor attempt to parody Sarah Palin was widely promoted by the remainder of the liberal media. Sometimes, SNL does make fun of liberals like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, but it still attacks conservatives and their views. Indeed, after Donald Trump won the American presidency, SNL's writers began using staunch liberal actor Alec Baldwin to unfairly parody Trump whenever humanly possible. SNL continues to run weekly from fall to spring each year despite its lack of cultural influence and increase in liberal politicization. Despite this, however, there was at least one skit that actually does attempt to mock liberal values, where a business does mind-reading technology on a dog, Max the Pug, and Max turns out to be a Trump supporter and ends up refuting a whole lot of liberal arguments easily in a very humorous manner.[1]
In the past, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, the show turned some of its minor players into feature film actors including:
- Dan Akroyd (The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters)
- Eddie Murphy (Coming to America, Trading Places and The Nutty Professor)
- Mike Myers (Wayne's World, Austin Powers, and Shrek)
- Julia Louis Dreyfuss (Seinfeld)
- Adam Sandler (50 First Dates and Happy Gilmore)
- Harry Shearer (The Simpsons and This is Spinal Tap)
On the weekend before the 2018 general election, Saturday Night Live aired an attack on "unusually looking" Republican candidates. Liberal comedian Pete Davidson placed on the screen the photo of the one-eyed Texas congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw amid much laughter though Davidson said in his remarks that Crenshaw had lost the eye in war. Crenshaw, who did not see the live broadcast, said that any apology that might come from Saturday Night Live would be insincere and therefore unacceptable. Instead, he urged the program to donate $1 million to veterans' causes.[2]
Grayson Quay wrote at The American Conservative website:
| “ | On May 8, the notoriously left-wing Vice ran an opinion piece by Harry Cheadle with the headline “‘SNL’ Cold Opens Are Unfunny, Elitist Pieces of Liberal Propaganda.” The piece went on to lambast these political segments for consisting almost entirely of “obvious applause lines” meant to reassure the “anti-Trump crowd” that all of their “knee-jerk impulses and prejudices are correct.” This is not satire. This is preaching to the choir, or, as Cheadle puts it, “spoon-feeding the audience their own spit-up.” Satire is under no obligation to mock all sides equally, and it certainly can and should take aim at particular targets. But it cannot be allowed merely to soothe its viewers into complacency. Most anti-Trump comedy exists only to remind liberals that everybody who matters already agrees with them and that anyone who doesn’t agree is crazy... This level of smugness, which bears just as much responsibility for Trump’s rise as Trump himself, is ripe for satire.[3] | ” |
Current Cast
Repertory players
- Beck Bennett (Joined 2013)
- Aidy Bryant (Joined 2012)
- Michael Che (Joined 2014)
- Pete Davidson (Joined 2014)
- Mikey Day (Joined 2016)
- Leslie Jones (Joined 2014)
- Colin Jost (Joined 2014)
- Kate McKinnon (Joined 2012)
- Alex Moffat (Joined 2016)
- Kyle Mooney (Joined 2013)
- Cecily Strong (Joined 2012)
- Kenan Thompson (Joined 2003)
- Melissa Villaseñor (Joined 2016)
Featured Players
- Heidi Gardner (Joined 2017)
- Ego Nwodim (Joined 2018)
- Chris Redd (Joined 2017)
Bold denotes Weekend Update anchor.
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ http://100percentfedup.com/saturday-night-live-mocks-liberals-hilarious-spoof-using-pro-trump-pug-video/
- ↑ Jodi Guglielmi (November 5, 2018). Veteran Dan Crenshaw Says Pete Davidson Shouldn't Apologize for Joke — But SNL Costar Disagrees. People.com. Retrieved on November 6, 2018.
- ↑ How Donald Trump Killed Left-Wing Political Satire by Grayson Quay, The American Conservative website
