{"id":30093,"date":"2015-11-08T16:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T00:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30093"},"modified":"2015-11-09T08:20:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:20:40","slug":"the-reviews-are-in-donald-trumps-bombs-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30093","title":{"rendered":"The Reviews Are in: Donald Trump Bombs On SNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that is it&#8217;s all over, it turns out that the hype that engulfed Donald Trump&#8217;s appearance on Saturday Night Live was more entertaining than the actual show. There are barely any reviews that have anything positive to say about either Trump&#8217;s performance, or that of the regular cast and writers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/trump-snl-racist.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Racist\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30094\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1205579022790224\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-btn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big problem with Trump hosting the show, and the reason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30069\" target=\"_blank\">the protests<\/a> were so pronounced, was never about the debate between opposing political ideologies. It was about the noxious validation of an unrepentant hate monger. Would SNL proffer an invitation to a KKK leader if they thought it would produce big ratings? One can only hope not. Likewise, the role of political satire is not to suck up to the rich and powerful, but to slather them in mockery. On that level SNL failed miserably.<\/p>\n<p>Even with regard to ratings, SNL failed to achieve much of a victory. The program did not break any records. It did exceed their other programs over the past three years (not a long time frame for a show that&#8217;s been on the air for more than forty years), but fell below such non-talents as Sarah Palin and Charles Barkley. And the reviews for Trump were decidedly unflattering to say the least. Here&#8217;s a short sampling of the damage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New York Times:<\/strong> \u201cS.N.L.\u201d stuck with obvious, anemic political riffs and apolitical sketches that were cringeworthy all around.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Los Angeles Times:<\/strong> \u201cSNL\u201d seemed so bent on appearing nonpartisan that it over-compensated and forgot its actual mandate: Be funny.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wrap:<\/strong> In its 41st season, the show would rather play along with the wealthy and powerful than satirize them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yahoo TV:<\/strong> Host Donald Trump kicked off this week\u2019s Saturday Night Live with an opening monologue that demonstrated all the reasons it wasn\u2019t a good idea for him to host SNL. [&#8230;] The only entity that came off worse than Donald Trump was SNL.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Variety:<\/strong> Most of the sketches involving Trump were weak, timid or predictable.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time:<\/strong> His episode of SNL was among the most anodyne in the show\u2019s recent history.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Washington Post:<\/strong> Trump\u2019s sorry night on \u2018SNL\u2019: An overhyped bummer for us all.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Townhall:<\/strong> Trump on SNL Was Dull, Unfunny.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Greg Gutfeld, Fox News:<\/strong> They deliberately wrote nothing, as a protest. It&#8217;s like a restaurant cook spitting on someone&#8217;s food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last two in this list were specifically included to show that it isn&#8217;t just the <em>&#8220;liberal&#8221;<\/em> media ganging up The Donald. Gutfeld&#8217;s paranoid observation that there was a conspiracy by the writers to tank Trump is especially ludicrous. Why would they do so knowing that it would make them look just as atrocious as their star? They have their own careers to consider.<\/p>\n<p>The one moment in the show that was universally applauded was Larry David&#8217;s heckling of Trump&#8217;s opening monologue wherein he called Trump a racist. David was cashing in on the actual offer by  Latino activist group <a href=\"http:\/\/deportracism.com\/pages\/di-rupt-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Deport Racism<\/a> to pay $5,000 to anyone in the SNL audience who called Trump a racist on the air. The group says that it will honor the offer and pay the prize to David (not that he needs it). SNL&#8217;s attempt at a preemptive strike to dilute the impact of an audience member disrupting the show backfired because David&#8217;s disruption got far more people talking about Trump&#8217;s bigotry than an unknown person in the audience would have.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, on the other hand, was stiff and painfully humor-challenged. What&#8217;s worse, he managed to make himself appear even less presidential than he has on the campaign trail this year (not an unimpressive feat). It probably won&#8217;t hurt him among his supporters because, by definition, their judgment is pitifully defective.<\/p>\n<p>But the real losers in all of this are NBC, who reversed their pledge to cut ties with Trump due to his offensive remarks, and SNL, who are demonstrating a crushing weakness in what should be their core comedic competence. It&#8217;s a sad decline for the program that seems to be accelerating downward. And following this disgraceful capitulation to a bully bigot, you have to wonder what&#8217;s next for SNL.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/trump-snl.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump SNL\" width=\"550\" height=\"344\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30025\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that is it&#8217;s all over, it turns out that the hype that engulfed Donald Trump&#8217;s appearance on Saturday Night Live was more entertaining than the actual show. There are barely any reviews that have anything positive to say about either Trump&#8217;s performance, or that of the regular cast and writers. The big problem with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Reviews Are in: Donald Trumps Bombs On SNL","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,6],"tags":[554,101],"class_list":["post-30093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-ratings","tag-donald-trump","tag-nbc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-7Pn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30023,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30023","url_meta":{"origin":30093,"position":0},"title":"Crybaby Donald Trump Calls For NBC Debate Boycott But Still Wants To Host SNL","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/31\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Following the debate fiasco on CNBC, the Republican candidates announced that they would be meeting to discuss how they could could strong arm the media into producing debates that weren't so hard on their fragile and weak-kneed candidates. 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