Comedian Chris Rock hosted “Saturday Night Live” this weekend and delivered a monologue that was well-balanced, poking fun at President-elect Donald Trump, anti-Trump liberals, and included one brutal joke directed at former President Bill Clinton.
And you could tell the crowd dragged in off the streets of midtown Manhattan weren’t quite sure what to make of it. They’re not, after all, used to courageous comedians daring to dip into un-woke waters by roasting both sides of the political spectrum.
There were some groans. Some uncomfortable moments. But overall, Rock delivered because, as any good comic does, he torched everybody. Something unheard of in the Trump era.
Now, SNL has had a tough time delivering laughs in recent years due to their penchant for constantly mocking only one side and doing so in a rather mean-spirited way. Rock alludes to that with…
