I mean they also had Trump on during 2016. Why is anyone even remotely surprised by this? They are a show. They work for ratings. Having someone running for President on there kinda makes sense number wise.
Less surprise and more disappointed. They are doing the same thing the news stations did during Trump's first presidential run: giving them free advertising.
If they don't court their fan's favor, they will decline (again) in popularity. One-off stunts for ratings that are unpopular have the potential to hurt them in the long run.
As a conservative I feel like right wing social media spins have been more cringe and ridiculous than usual. First the Taylor Swift stuff, now this...ugh.
Saturday Night Live instantly started receiving backlash after Nikki Haley made a surprise appearance during the Feb. 3 show.
During a town hall sketch for the cold open, the Republican presidential candidate made a cameo to ask James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump some questions of her own.
Ayo Edebiri later popped up at the end of the sketch and directed a question at Haley: “I was just curious, what would you say was the main cause of the Civil War?
Following Haley’s appearance on SNL, some people took to social media to criticize the NBC sketch comedy show for giving her screen time but not other candidates.
One person wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “Nikki Haley will only ever diss trump on a comedy show, and WTF is slavery denier doing on SNL anyway?
Saturday Night Live sure does have a long track record of comedy-washing hateful conservatives.” Trump previously hosted the show in 2015 while running for president for the 2016 election.
The original article contains 493 words, the summary contains 163 words. Saved 67%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
It's the same edgy dumb kids who post 'does anyone even care?!?' for internet points, except that everyone finds them an annoying waste of bandwidth and contribute next to nothing to the discussion.
Edit: actually, they contribute nothing to the discussion. Nothing at all.
It's a weird thing to say because you can't know that it's not funny or still not funny without watching it. SNL is and has always been hit or miss with humor. Some humor ages well. Some doesn't. Sometimes it's really funny. Sometimes it's ok.
I watched the first episode when they had some anniversary airing and a lot of those jokes are... ok.