‘SNL’ Faces Backlash After Nikki Haley Makes Surprise Appearance During Cold Open
‘SNL’ Faces Backlash After Nikki Haley Makes Surprise Appearance During Cold Open
Ayo Edebiri made her hosting debut on the sketch comedy show Saturday with musical guest Jennifer Lopez.
Every time I see "backlash" in a news headline it's always just Twitter culture warriors who are always angry about something
Literally from the article:
One person wrote on X (formerly Twitter)
And that's it for citations on this "backlash". "This story is fucking trash" and since one person on kbin said that, it must be true!
Sometimes I read this garbage and I feel like it's that part from Mean Girls.
Stop trying to make outrage happen!
And profits were made off their rage.
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.
Is there an ‘devils advocate’ in there to explain what they were doing and why, other than to be disruptive for ratings?
Say, trying to show any support for a competitor to Trump? To cut at his lead a little?
I’m just spitballing and asking questions, and am absolutely down for someone smarter tearing up any justification with well articulated responses.
Yep.
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.
The problem with the media spins is they have to outdo Trump's shenanigans.
As the right pushes further right, the crazy gets crazier.
I don't think anyone really cares, let alone enough to have a 'backlash' against SNL over it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
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Every time I see "backlash" in a news headline it's always just Twitter culture warriors who are always angry about something
IDK… if this cameo causes one nutty trump voter to flip for her and dilute his numbers it seems harmless. I wasn’t watching ;-)
That's unfortunate. She's a rotten, stupid bitch.
Nikki Haley aside is it just me or was this one of the funniest episodes that they've made in a long time?
i love snl but we're all so tired of the trump sketches ffs
People still watch that show? It hasn't been funny in years.
*SNL gets mentioned*
Randos for the last 45+ years: "That's still a thing? SNL hasn't been funny since I was watching it in high school/college!"
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.
Here's the cold open from 1981, the show's sixth season right after Lorne and the original cast were all replaced.
https://piped.video/watch?v=-_X904_TZnc&t=0
The weird "It just doesn't matter" thing only makes sense if you've seen Meatballs.
I used to watch it all the time, until NBC pulled it off of Hulu. "Guess I don't need to watch that anymore."
I saw some clips from this episode and it was actually way funnier than it usually is. You should check out some skits from the episode!