There’s a well-understood comedy axiom that says if you have to explain why something is funny, then it isn’t, but NBC’s Saturday Night Live fails to understand this because, in response to Donald Trump’s victory, the cast came together for a cringe-inducing performance where they pretended to support him in an attempt to stay off an enemies list.
Bowen Yang opened by making sure everyone knew it was not their actual position, “On Tuesday, Americans went to the polls and elected Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States,” while Ego Nwodim followed with, “To many people, including many people watching this show right now, the results were shocking and even horrifying.”
Heidi Gardner subsquently lamented, “Donald Trump, who tried to forcibly overturn the results of the last election, was returned to office by an overwhelming…
