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‘Saturday Night Live’ and Presidential Parodies Pre and Post Trump

The first rule of thumb most comedians learn is that the funniest jokes usually have a grain of truth to them. Sadly, as the left becomes more and more anti-comedy, the job of comedians to make us laugh and forget about real life for a bit has become a whole lot harder. Even American icons like “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) in recent years have gone the way of other late-night shows: nothing more than left-wing mouthpieces that are no longer funny. But it’s Maya Rudolph’s portrayal of Kamala Harris and Dana Carvey adding another president to his repertoire as Joe Biden that may have SNL leading the charge to make America funny again.

For most of us old enough to remember, our first SNL president was Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford. Chase took an incident in June of 1975, where Ford stumbled down the last few stairs getting off Air Force One in Australia and took it up several notches….

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