I know plenty of folks won’t agree with me on this one, but I thought Saturday Night Live’s cold-open skit on Trump’s resounding election victory was pretty funny. Although the show has been openly—viciously—anti-Trump in the past, I thought in this bit they poked some fun at themselves and showed they were aware of their and their audience’s political leanings, but they didn’t lean into the histrionics and fear-mongering that they’ve engaged in in prior years.
Remember the absolutely horrid “song” Kate McKinnon delivered in 2016? It was NYC-Tinseltown hysteria at its worst:
An emotional Kate McKinnon opens #SNL singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” as Hillary pic.twitter.com/kzMANTdkZW
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) November 13, 2016
They took some potshots at Trump in this latest bit, but they were mostly soft punches without the…
