The media Research Center kept up its battle against “Saturday Night Live” with a May 5 post by comedy cop Alex Christy:
The late night comedy shows’ desire to trash the Supreme Court for its recent ruling that paved the way for the elimination of mandated majority-minority districts continued on NBC’s Saturday Night Live when Weekend Update co-anchor Michael Che compared the decision to the days of the Civil Rights Movement when protestors were attacked with firehoses.
Che quipped that “Legal experts are saying that this week’s Supreme Court ruling has taken a wrecking ball to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but if you ask black people, it felt more like a firehose.”
After the audience responded with more oohs than laughter, Che was quite proud of himself and pretended to take notes while adding, “Too real.”
Che not only never tried to explain how the ruling is like turning a firehose on a protestor, he never explained the ruling at all. He delivered a cheap one-liner about some vague event, and the audience is supposed to assume the country has snapped back to the worst days of Jim Crow.
Yes, Christy was that mad about a joke. Tim Graham whined in a column the following day:
The liberals at Mediaite.com gushed over the latest anti-conservative comedy from NBC: “Kash Patel Gets Absolutely Smoked in Punishing SNL Sendup By Aziz Ansari: ‘I’m the First Indian Person to Suck at Their Job!’”
After another vomitous episode of Colin Jost badly attempting to turn Pete Hegseth into a villainous-jock character from “Revenge of the Nerds,” this “cold open” skit on Saturday Night Live turned to Indian-American comedian Aziz Ansari punishing his fellow Indian-American as a dolt.
“You guys should not be reporting the lies and the gossip, you should be reporting on the historic nature of my appointment,” Ansari’s Patel said. “I’m a trailblazer. I’m the first Indian person to suck at their job! Everyone says Indian people are smart, hard-working, incredibly intelligent. I’ve proved without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites!”
This is liberal humor in a nutshell – mocking the white people (how progressive) and any minority who doesn’t stick like glue to the Left. Being on the Left automatically makes you competent and racially sensitive.
Graham went on to whine that “Mocking Patel’s alleged ‘flaws and characteristics’ is all Ansari did” — though he never noted that right-wing “humor” is all about mocking the alleged flaws and characteristics of liberals, or why that is somehow more noble than what “SNL” did. Ultimately, all Graham did is get out the Trump Regime Media narrative his employer (and Patel) want out there.
Christy was back in comedy-cop mode in a May 12 post:
Actor Matt Damon stopped by NBC and Saturday Night Live over the weekend to reprise his role as Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and suggest that he and his colleagues have a secret plan to let President Trump ignore the Constitution and run for a third term. Fake Kavanaugh revealed his secret while at a bar during a bro session with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost) and FBI Director Kash Patel (Aziz Ansari) at a bar to imply all three have an alcohol problem.
Initially it was just Kavanaugh and Hegseth when Damon quipped, “Hey, can I just say, we are both kicking ass right now.”
Fake Hegseth eagerly agreed, “Right? Dude, can you believe I just, like, started a war?” Meanwhile, Damon started his theme of not actually understanding the Court, “Can you believe I ended abortion? Hey, your body, my choice. Oh! You knew I’d do it. You knew I’d do it.”
After Fake Kavanaugh asked how the Iran War is going, Jost claimed, “Oh, it’s totally chill. It’s totally chill. At this point—it’s like me at a DWI checkpoint: it completely blew over.”
Damon then wondered, “Oh, really. I thought I read we were still bombing stuff.”
Jost then not-so-subtly tried to suggest that the administration is having the same problem with the Iran War as an alcoholic has with alcohol, “Ah, no, just like a few every now and then. We can stop whenever we want to.”
[…]After Jost claimed, “Brother, everything’s a secret when you’re blacked out,” Damon continued, “Right. All right. We’re going to let Trump do a third term.”
Following some celebration, Fake Hegseth claimed, “I thought that was unconstitutional.” Damon concluded his SCOTUS ignorance by celebrating, “Yeah, it was. But Trump found the original Constitution. And at the end he wrote, ‘Psych!’ We’re going to live forever!”
Even if Trump were serious in his comments about running for a third term, does SNL really think the Court would just let him just ignore the 22nd Amendment? It would not even let him keep his tariffs.
Christy offered no reason why trump shouldn’t be taken seriously in his desire for a third term.