Who let this happen on Saturday Night Live? In his second gig as host of the show, comedian Shane Gillis uncorked a monologue that mocked Joe Biden’s cognitive fitness, liberal moral arrogance, and PBS documentary star Ken Burns as making dreadfully boring films.
After joking about Trump and the Gulf of America and Greenland, Gillis turned, to Biden, mocking how between teleprompters, Biden’s face would go dead. Then he added: “You guys are pretty liberal here. I understand being liberal. It feels good. It’s powerful. It’s too powerful, dude, it’s like the Sith! You lose yourself, dude. Somebody says something you don’t like at work, and it’s like [monster noise].”
Later, Gillis did a riff on Ken Burns, and the documentary series that made him famous, The Civil War. It’s 11 and a half hours long — 690 minutes. What I did not expect is that Gillis would…
