College Presidents Cold Open - SNL

College presidents (Ego Nwodim, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner) answer questions from members of Congress (Chloe Troast, Bowen Yang, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow) about antisemitism on their campuses.
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[@NathanLGrossman]

By all means, let's ridicule a Republican congresswoman for asking incisive questions, rather than college presidents for giving indefensible answers.

[@seanmobley2610]

They literally spent half the skit mocking the college presidents for giving indefensible answers. They came off as out-of-touch loons. Did you only watch the parts of the sketch that reinforced your point of view?

[@NathanLGrossman]

@@seanmobley2610 I watched the whole thing. The caricature of Rep. Stefanik was far more extreme and mocking than that of the college presidents. This is notable because in the actual hearing, Stefanik asked incisive (if sometimes flawed) questions, whereas the college presidents gave morally indefensible answers.

[@christophergreen4367]

You could definitely tell they were all lawyers. You couldn't get a straight answer.

[@scottblue9059]

​@@seanmobley2610you're kidding, right?

[@he-mansuncle7661]

@@scottblue9059he’s not.

[@DavidKyle]

you don't have to be Jewish to cringe at this, just a human being.

[@LeeLe412]

@@jamesbott3788 so calling a person with the wrong pronouns is against university rules but calling for the genocide of Jews is "correct" according to you?

[@AnikaandAj]

@@LeeLe412 Calling for a ceasefire to a genocide that Israel is actually committing and for Palestinians to be free from this violence does not equate to calling for a genocide. Kindly, get your head out of your ass and visit reality.

[@jamesbott3788]

@@LeeLe412 just like the upenn president said, everything depends upon the context

[@LeeLe412]

@@jamesbott3788 is that what hitler also said?

[@norbnar7197]

​@@jamesbott3788 These idiots provide "Safe Spaces" for the most ridiculously sensitive students who don't feel safe when someone comes to simply speak at the University yet they're totally fine with huge hordes of people harassing and intimidating Jewish students who have nothing to do with Israel.🤣🤣🤣🤣 There has never been a bigger group of hypocritical idiots than college admins and their pissant students.

[@machtnichtsseimann]

This sketch will always be in the SNL Hall of Shame.

[@HerculesEinstein]

yeah, it was pretty lame. i had to go watch the real version to see what this was parodying, and it just wasn't good. oh well, duds are bound to happen here and there.

[@grbenway]

@@HerculesEinstein I mean, it is a strategy for them to support anit sematism.. we will have to see how that works out for them.

[@dbohler8640]

@@HerculesEinstein they’ve been on a 7 year streak of duds. How many parodies of the false Russian Collusion story did they do? Someone has to be subsidizing them because their ratings are rock bottom.

[@Jo-fy2fc]

The SNL POS.

[@apsarasangreal84]

As the most evil

[@michaelwankewycz6209]

1930s Germany. Person questioning the Nazis "Would the Holocaust be bad for the Jewish population?" Nazis response "It would depend on the context." SNL writers "The person who asked the Nazis that question was annoying and self serving"

[@minngael]

The Republicans & Dem allies are defining antisemitism as any criticism of Israel. Universities have been censoring & kicking out or firing students & faculty for speaking out against Israels war crimes.

[@sophiaako7663]

Lmao truly, its wild how people are so completely short-sighted. They are the people in the Weimar republic who watched the Nazi party rise to power and just went "well, they said Jews are the problem and they're probably right"

[@ULTIMAFAX]

This sketch was very similar to the university president themselves: afraid of offending someone, thus pissing off everyone.

[@scienz]

the writers are part of that same school system so go figure

[@baronvonnembles]

Bingo!

[@miller1]

Difficult to tell by the sketch but was obvious which three of the four (Stefanik, Macgill, Gay, Kornhole) were grossly incompetent during the actual hearing...

[@jasonbrownjourno]

Lol the comments are hilarious - they obviously offended nearly everyone in the comments, all bleating about a lack of humour - thought it was great

[@sheridan891]

@@jasonbrownjournoI wouldn’t go around just telling strangers that kind of thing.

[@ams914]

This would've played really well in late 1930s Germany. Good job, SNL.

[@rammohan5110]

Word buddy. Word.

[@PaulLukeBonenfant]

you realize, lorne michaels is Jewish

[@rammohan5110]

@@PaulLukeBonenfant So? George Soros is a Jew. He provided names of Jews to the Naz!S to exterminate. You can be Jewish and still be anti-semitic.

[@GregoryDM]

@@PaulLukeBonenfant I don’t think he’s on the show anymore it’s Tina fey.

[@PhillyFrank1]

You think this sketch was itself antisemitic? You obviously don’t understand what the real targets of the satire are.

[@ninjaoflight908]

This has already aged like milk.

[@funkydanieluk]

This was stinky cheese on arrival.

[@user-cn2uf4id9n]

Lookin back, it still sucks.

[@caseman1967]

When people show you who they really are, believe them.

[@johnnyrocker7495]

Yeah, especially genocidal Israelis.

[@Gaite4354]

SNL watches the hearing, sees three university presidents refuse to say calls for genocide violate school policy and they think the joke is the republican asking the questions is the punchline.

[@wesleygeer1158]

Total scum. SNL should be canceled.

[@AutumnBlessed]

Thank you. This skit was so dumb and boring that I didn't even understand what it was truly about anyway.

[@hannacook859]

​@@AutumnBlessedit was mocking people trying to stop antisemitism while presenting people enabling it in a flattering light.

[@Iloveswedes]

@@hannacook859 Ah yes, the "Jewish space laser" folks are trying to stop antisemitism. Got it.

[@christophermartin972]

Absolutely 👍👍👍

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Is SNL really trying to defend 3 women who couldn't say genocide against Jews is bad?

[@LexoG33]

The whole premise of the question was deceitful, it implied that there was a movement of students at these colleges calling for genocide. Implying that slogans that call for the freedom of Palestinians is calling for the genocide of Jews is fucked up. Israel government is the oppressor, not Jews. Criticism of Israel government is not antisemitic, many of the critics are Jewish themselves.

[@seanmobley2610]

No, but they are pointing out that many of the people holding these college leaders accountable are refusing to be held accountable themselves.

[@hadamerryweather577]

Yes

[@brianoneal2547]

Looks like it

[@jeffscott3186]

@@LexoG33 It should also be pointed out that Hamas is also an oppressor of the Palestinians. And many leaders from numerous countries have exploited the Palestine situation for their own means and enrichment. Hamas is evil and controls Gaza through force. Palestinians are stuck in a vice between Israel and Hamas. Politicians in the US trying to play this conflict for political points in the Jewish community are pathetic and soulless and no better than the leaders of Hamas who have grown wealthy while Palestinians live in poverty.

[@jessesalinas8534]

Claudine Gay just resigned.. Is SNL going to make a skit of that? 😂

[@stiffpeter1771]

😅 yeah right... half the SNL writers would get fired just thinking about trying that stunt for comedy. But it would be funny to watch, especially when she explains why she plagiarize her entire college career and was still hired by Harvard University. That would be the joke of 2024. Only Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would be able to out stink America like "Professor" ? Gay did.

[@GameTavern2224]

Something tells me their gonna make the entire staff of Harvard wear Klansman robes

[@scott555]

Thanks for having the balls to broadcast your worst most embarrassing failures. Respect.

[@Grim_Sister]

look up Eretz Nehederet. Their skit was actually funny

[@NJIT22]

Actually they don’t deserve respect

[@Riclmnopp]

When you are so far left that you can never agree with any Republican under any circumstance, these are the sketches you get.

[@davegerrish8210]

One may question Rep. stefaniks sincerity. As the sketch states, her mentor trump said " there were good people on both sides" of a rally where white nationalists were shouting " Jews will not replace us"

[@janesays1278]

I think it may have something do do with the writers room and their affiliation to Ivy League schools… at least that was my take while watching it.

[@aviribenbach2063]

​@@davegerrish8210you do know Jews do not agree with your take

[@dyawr]

For real, this was pathetic.

[@NotAfraid280]

@@davegerrish8210yeah she’s not Donald trump though lol

[@MrGusPlato]

Despicable. Instead of skewering the college presidents for their appalling answers, they skewer the congresswoman for her straightforward and revealing questions.

[@cmonman3639]

Why would SNL mock their woke comrades?

[@GuiltyFaT]

​​@@cmonman3639 Because woke people are nothing more than a nest of snakes always biting each other

[@craigyoung3124]

It's because the woke left is antisemitic.

[@johnabbottphotography]

This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode, where his dentist switches to Judaism, and then makes jokes about Jewish people. Seinfeld is asked: "And this offends you as a Jewish person?" "No, it offends me as a comedian" The sketch didn't offend me because of its politics. It offended me because it missed the hanging softball of being able to make fun of folks who said that someone calling for the genocide of Jewish people would "need context". That, and that it portrayed the university presidents as anything but pandering idiots.

[@Chad_KBH]

I really think they may have just put that show out of business.

[@The-Rest-of-Us]

If you watch it as a sketch that parodies how terrible SNL is, it‘s watchable.

[@JoshC-End-Abortion-Fear-God]

😂True

[@nickjazz6943]

SNL just unalived itself

[@mackenziebarefoot1913]

“Is Auschwitz a death camp??” SNL-“Depends on the context” 💀

[@searchingfortruth619]

ICRC - "Nope"

[@kengroh4351]

Funniest post here. I'm old enough to understand "Auschwitz".

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

ok that was good

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

@@kengroh4351 You don't have to be old to understand Auschwitz.

[@jakestroll6518]

What’s Auschwitz got to do with 18 years olds denouncing current day atrocities? Were their great great grandparents prison guards at that camp or something?

[@jockoadams3377]

The joke is that the sketch tries to make fun of the Congresswoman... not the cowardly College presidents who are too afraid to answer the easiest question honestly.

[@our99centgarden]

Probably not afraid . More like they are in agreement with the behaviour. and that is what is really scary.

[@jon9625]

100 %

[@sieraclayton1503]

The sketch clearly made fun of both the Congresswoman AND the University Presidents.

[@beegood14]

@@sieraclayton1503. Actually, it really only made fun of the congresswoman and made her look stupid. That was not funny. The entire skit was sophomoric and distasteful. Biased, biased and biased.

[@MyAramil]

@@sieraclayton1503 Just because you go "your so funny" in a deadpan tone when talking to someone, it does not mean you are making fun of them.

[@buttmonkey3317]

This is what comedy must have been like circa 1941 Germany.

[@c.eb.1216]

My goodness, they have a point that the Republican is being inconsistent but... if we ever do fall into that type of travesty as a nation, it will be because one side cared more about attacking the smoke of hypocrisy than addressing the blazing fire of hatred around them. It will all burn down because the inhabitants were pettily squabbling instead of escaping.

[@lightningbolt4419]

and just like german comedy, it's painfully unfunny.

[@AncientRe]

thats funny because the modern GOP is a nazi party. Similar everything.

[@realestatesquats2174]

For those that don’t know, SNL used to be a late night comedy series of skits. Now it’s just a late night series of skits trying to tell young people how to vote.

[@xZOOMORPHICx]

correct

[@user-ns7jx2jw9u]

ExACTLY!

[@sugonmaballs]

SNL literally telling people how to vote: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5fIl6auiKtjqdksi=pvM0irBVrwprTOht&t=184

[@memopadilla5931]

Same with the major late night shows and so many other daytime shows.. they have become political tools for the left.

[@citrusbutter7718]

Regardless of what they were then and now i never liked this god awful boringly insipid show. Mind you i love skit shows too, some being in living color and mad tv being my favorites, but this show is so damn boring.

[@BeardedBushMan81]

I’m somewhere in the middle politically and it blows my mind that the “writers” and SNL watched this hearing and their take away was the Rep asking the questions is the problem. Absolutely insane.

[@braintrust12]

then you must not be familiar with SNL. SNL got infected with the woke mind virus long long ago. It's become a propaganda show to try and promote genocide, anti science, bigotry, and racism.

[@Iloveswedes]

You haven't been paying attention to Elise Stefanik. The truth is, she's also from New York, so they see her hypocrisy.

[@steggy9651]

@@Iloveswedesit doesn’t really matter who was asking the questions though.. it was their answers that everybody was pissed about. It could have literally been a 10 year old asking the questions in that hearing and the answers they gave would still have been terrible. I don’t have a clue who the Stefanik girl is.. and I don’t really care. If you want to know what hypocrisy is, then ask yourself what their answers would have been if Jews were not the subject of the question and instead the questions were about genociding black people, LGBTQ, or basically any other group they regularly pander to. If you think they would have been nearly as vague.. you’re blind.

[@migili21]

​@steggy9651 great answer!

[@shadow_ax]

@@Iloveswedes And what hypocrisy is that? Stefanik has never made any remarks justifying antisemitism. So, I fail to see the hypocrisy of which you speak.

[@mellylander]

Only ones laughing is the laugh track

[@alexfry3855]

I've never experienced such strong second-hand embarrassment before...

[@JackBauer529]

Omg! That's what I'm feeling. I didn't know it had a name. Lol

[@jamesholleman2083]

My absolute favorite response.

[@Klonzo33]

I absolutely love this comments section. Well done, SNL. Only you could fail at satire so hard that you yourself become the butt of the joke. Bravo.

[@davidpiergrossi3774]

Technically it’s parody.

[@grantstratton2239]

​@@davidpiergrossi3774 I hope it's not parody. That would imply the writers had genuine respect for the source material but recognized it was flawed and didn't think the whole thing was a dumpster fire. Though I guess that would explain how they failed so hard at making this funny.

[@davidalexander3320]

This was too smart for the youtube comment section

[@lisaholmes6039]

​@@davidalexander3320negative

[@terpenstine]

@@davidalexander3320 yeah condoning genocide goes over peoples heads these days

[@josephburnside2135]

Well this is embarrassing. How the fuck did this even make it out of the writer's room!?

[@scottlev-cw2ki]

Lorne , You got this one backwards. Shame on those presidents

[@Thrifty-Gal]

Imagine a similar sketch about any other minority group?

[@jasonbrownjourno]

Easily. Watch Weekend Update on literally any Saturday of the year it's on. You and every other whining Willie will find literally all sorts of OTT parodies of racism against minorities and - major bonus! - against majority whities, like me. Really easy to find it's in the same Tv programme.

[@arleciajackson9237]

Heads will roll.

[@yaelder-e2686]

Dude, if any college president wouldn't be condemning the genocide of... Let's say... Black people? It would have ended for them long before a hearing in Congress. Only when it comes to Jews there is suddenly this double standard about racism, it's that simple

[@jaswin5994]

Cry harder

[@abiticus_16]

Any other minority group? This whole sketch was primarily mocking somebody who's actually bringing a valuable point, that college campuses should be safe for all students, and being that now and for hundreds of years, due to me being a Jew and actually knowing my heritage and history and you don't even have to be a Jew to know, that this was horrible and extremely antisemitic, and honestly very unfunny, so please don't bring in your, "any other minority group", because this has no correlation and we, as Jews, had no retaliation.

[@jhagen4850]

Mocking calls for genocide on a minority group is disgusting.

[@JRAw89]

Good thing that never happened here.

[@13game3]

@@JRAw89 Literally did. Even the college presidents didn't deny it. Are you a muscum or a dhimmi?

[@KoolKukumber]

@@JRAw89I wonder what’s the real estate on the ROCK you’re living under?? I’m thinking of getting a new place in a quieter area. Heard you don’t get bothered with things like logic or facts down there

[@10tammer]

@@13game3what did they say that called for genocide?

[@13game3]

@@10tammer from the river to the sea.

[@itsnotme33]

I'm not even a republican, but saying in a mocking tone for a skit : "is it against the code of conduct to call for the genocide of Jews" is really weird. Like out of all the things you could've made fun of from this hearing, you chose to mock the reaction to people calling for genocide?

[@calebs6298]

Of course, imagine if you put any other group of people in this context and SNL would never have dared

[@matronmalice9867]

White people would get it too. Looks like it's ok to hate Europeans & Jews because reasons.

[@richardbishop8666]

so true. it is hypocrisy and it and plain to see

[@benporter3982]

the congresswoman literally asked the Harvard pres if the genocide of black people was ok and she had to stand on the same hill, sad that people like this have power in our society

[@thomasthomas2729]

This sketch is a shining example of everything gone wrong with SNL. Good job Mr. Michaels.

[@elanafelberg1733]

Exactly

[@vegasmoke]

Excellent skit!!😂😂😂😂

[@paleobc65]

You realize Lorne Michaels has israeli citizenship?

[@allisonwatson4681]

Saturday Night Live used to be funny about 45 years ago or so....really! even though it'd be hard to believe if you've watched it in the last 30 years.

[@newtheis]

@@paleobc65 so that makes his ignorant attempt to make fun of a GOP congresswoman in the name of genocide acceptable?

[@cpfalcon51]

Imagine watching the actual testimony and thinking Stefanik is the villain. When people say SNL is out of touch, this is a prime example 🙄

[@melodymatters]

She is the villain, Sherlock -- note how the well-documented extensive massacre of Palestinians, now at 18,000 and mostly made up of women and children, and which has been driving world-wide protests, and not just on college campuses, was completely ignored in her pursuit of a juicy gotcha. Stefanik is right wing extremist trash, and the university heads should have been much, MUCH better prepared for dealing with that. A serious discussion was never on the GOP agenda here (or for anything else)..

[@OldenPolyNate]

Awwwe Poor right wing snowflake got their feelings hurt in this sketch LOL

[@LoriNomey]

totally agree!

[@Parpl22]

I am a democrat and don’t like Stefanie but she did a great job holding these “Presidents” to the fire.

[@rayalder8511]

totally agree, and i think stefanik went to harvard, she has some skin in the game for wanting harvard to clean up their act

[@tomada36]

SNL totally missed the mark on this one. I'm sure that lots of viewers laughed it up, but the writers were mocking the wrong people.

[@michaelwankewycz6209]

Someone needs to make a sketch about SNL writers. Scenario - SNL writers mocking Germans who were against the Nazis from coming to power. The person questioning the Nazis would ask "Would the Holocaust be bad for the Jewish population?" However, the Nazis answer of "it depends on the context" wouldn't be the defining moment. The defining moment, according to SNL writers, would be about how the person against the Nazis asked the question.

[@pamelavaughn547]

The problem is SNL follows an ideology regardless of where it takes them.

[@roddyboethius1722]

But we all know that Magas are the new Nzs

[@Nikkers8]

I guess my expectations for SNL were not low enough.

[@JR-ws4te]

Good reminder of why I haven’t watched SNL in years

[@tjn7608]

Then why did you watch this one?

[@JR-ws4te]

@@tjn7608 I tried to watch this clip to see what all the criticism was about. I only made it halfway through… cringe

[@tjn7608]

@@JR-ws4te i mean, if you look at the like to dislike ratio of 3:1 (12k to 36k), then you don't have to watch it. i watched this episode only for the adam driver sketches and weekend update, which were much better than this apparently is (i didn't watch this one yet).

[@kristylove418]

@@tjn7608same here: I haven’t watched SNL in years but I had to see if this sketch was as epically bad as I heard. And it is

[@seanmobley2610]

So you watched a single sketch that the Internet said you wouldn't like, from a show that you already didn't like, and doing so has confirmed that you don't like the show?

[@wafflefry18]

No wonder SNL is the punching bag of the stand up comedy world.

[@finster1968]

This is a new low even for SNL. I don’t blame the Congresswoman for getting emotional. She was probably in total shock at how psychotic this Harvard representative sounded. Too bad she didn’t think to ask her for an appropriate context where these threats are acceptable.

[@thebloocat]

She did ask that

[@chriskoeder1229]

Imagine arguing that calling for genocide is ok under certain circumstances...

[@Hanzsolomusic]

Historically the left has always done that so🤷 might be time to tell everybody the parties switched again.

[@urmothermia]

@@Hanzsolomusichuh?

[@ZukoHalliwell]

​@@McNeo2 Oh, shut up already! 🙄

[@327JohnnySS]

Leftism is a mental disorder if they think that this is okay.

[@iratepirate3896]

SNL's 'Nuremberg Cold Open'

[@danstiurca7963]

When an actual congressional hearing is funnier than the snl skit about it, maybe snl should resign just like the president of penn.

[@nancy107]

💯

[@TheArt0053]

Totally agree😂

[@SgtHulkasToe]

Starting with Lorne Michaels who lost his touch 20 years ago.

[@Batmarkman]

This comment is awesome and true. SNL still only hating on republicans

[@lucasaustin9872]

HOW DARE SNL!?! WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE REPUBLICANS!!!!

[@Vam1500]

Unbelievable. To turn the situation on its head and suggest the problem with those testimonies was the questioner? This is unapologetic gaslighting.

[@anthonyparvino4393]

SNL making the Fuhrer proud.

[@shaharm2898]

This is Joseph Goebbels level writing

[@Mrjits]

Tell me your writers went to Harvard without telling me they went to Harvard 😅

[@adr77510]

Stefanik went to Harvard too - the school doesn't teach antisemitism and shouldn't be an excuse for how distasteful this piece of crap is.

[@seanmobley2610]

Did a search. Only like two of the 25 or so writers went to Harvard. You know who did go to Harvard? Elise Stefanik.

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

@@seanmobley2610 Which means she's probably smarter than those 25 writers.

[@Eric_Bassett]

@@Individual_Lives_Matter can’t be lol she backs Trump, clearly not so smart.

[@PeacefulPariah]

@@Individual_Lives_Matter so we revere Harvard now or we despise it? It's almost as if your opinions instantly flip to accommodate your freaky politics but surely you're not doing that, right? Because that would make you a pathetic, lying hypocrite, and I hope that's not the case. With a handle like Individual_Lives_Matter, you're obviously a fair, objective, reasonable person. Not at all a bigoted reactionary to meaningless culture war nonsense, right? Or ...

[@burgermind802]

this cold open tried to please everyone and ended up pleasing no one

[@cromstreetbridge]

It was interesting to see someone attempt to do an impression of Elise Stefanik though. Even though the woman tried as hard as she could do to make her seem unhinged and deranged, she didnt even get to the actual level Stefanik operates at.

[@rickwrites2612]

Eh. Directed at moderate liberals with nuanced perspectives who think both positions are wrong. Like the Right are hypocrites cant complain about snowflakes and censorship on campuses and then say you cant have anti-zionist speech. McGill was fine. She shouldnt take sides about foreign politics and of course both actual antisemitism and actual islamophobia are a problem right now. As an alumni who has lived in the neighborhood 25 yrs, At the same time, if they are only asking about one or the other is wrong, then just say yes. Powerful donors should be even less able to control university speech than angry students.

[@TheBasher-_-]

No I thought it was accurate especially the hate towards the other people non Jewish.

[@jamesftoland]

​@@TheBasher-_-yeah blame Stefanik for what other deviants committed to. Way to stick to your brainwashed narrative. The only reason a first term congresswoman is being attacked here is because she exposed then intellectually eviscerated the leftoid gameplan

[@Gabe4D]

When it was supreme Court Justice kavanaugh they went all in on attacking the right, but here they had to redefine what happened in that hearing and then do a little of both But ultimately, they shit on the idea that bringing up anti semitism as something growing and that the left being lenient on it in the same manner the right was after Charlottesville. I guess it was too uncomfortable for them to face

[@calebs6298]

Imagine what the writers of this were thinking when they wrote this. Trying to portray the people making excuses for allowing hate crimes on their campus as poor innocents being harassed.

[@troyhoneck520]

Didn't think SNL could get much worse, but there you go...

[@troam1324]

For anyone out there that is 40+ years old, you understand how incredibly nauseating this is. I grew up on SNL The first thing you said when you woke up on Sunday morning was "did you see Saturday Night Live last night?" This is humiliating and gross.

[@chrisriat6788]

I am no fan of the congresswoman, but to make her the foil is incomprehensible.

[@Theactivepsychos]

Not really. She’s using the idea of hate speech as being unacceptable and yet has herself committed hate speech and even more so supported laws that discriminate.

[@schnibbyy]

@@Theactivepsychos Fatphobia and not using preferred pronouns is considered hate speech at these universities, but calling for the genocide of a race of people isn't. That's the point of this hearing.

[@Theactivepsychos]

@@schnibbyy she’s been forced to resign because she said something completely out of order. How is that a problem? Her ideology is not wanted at the university.

[@PNadav183]

​@@Theactivepsychos While this might be true (not a US citizen, have no idea what she said in the past), her questions to the heads of the universities was pretty straightforward and easy. She asked a pretty simple question for which the answer could've easily been 'yes'. She wasn't even asking about the river to the sea chants, but literally asking about calls for genocide. So regardless of what she said in the past, this time she was pretty spot on.

[@user-wl2rb3rh5c]

​​@@Theactivepsychos Building on that, people might wonder, why did *all* of the presidents answers, after been thought over, were: 1. The same 2. So deplorable Is that a sign of an individual's ideology? Or something more widespread, maybe systematic even of these establishments?

[@samobispo1527]

On some college campuses, you can get punished for misgendering someone, but get extra credit for calling for genocide.

[@mal35m]

As the Chinese curse goes, we now live in "colorful and interesting times".

[@vaughnhudspath5416]

FINALLY America is seeing a close-up view of the CRAZY TRAINS going on at MANY colleges. THANK YOU to these 3 Presidents - if you purposely wanted to DESTROY your credibility, you could NOT have done a more perfect job! #wokefortheweary

[@jaswin5994]

Where's the problem?

[@kyle1137]

Ur just making this up

[@mal35m]

@@kyle1137 Actually this is the reality on college campuses in 2023. Frankly I never thought I would see the day objecting to geno.cide of anyone would be considered "far right wing". What times we live in.

[@atlanticave1053]

SNL, you got this backwards!

[@Zadamanim]

Incredible SNL uploads this video of their own volition. You couldn't get this kind of confession out of me if you tortured me. Edit: I haven't seen someone confess to antisemitism this hard since the Nuremburg Trials lol

[@ploppill34]

I didn’t know Saturday Night Live thought threatening Jews was funny😢

[@Le_ROBOT-]

Bullshit. So jokes on all serious subjects are bad? It is not possible to TRY, even if you fail, to add levity to a deathly serious issue?

[@RichardTavilla]

Right

[@thegreenbean6777]

Even the audience was struggling to laugh

[@user-ns6qk2gt7m]

because SNL is trash and needs to be taken off the air for good

[@EngineersQuest]

​@@bluesrocker33👍 I was about to say the same thing.

[@viscountrainbows2857]

​@@bluesrocker33The laugh track had to be bribed

[@rfahy72]

Sounds like a laugh track to me.

[@Bwish2525]

@@bluesrocker33SNL uses a live audience but during Covid they started paying people to attend

[@garygates8]

Why are they mocking the speaker and not the heads of the universities?

[@lukesmhudson]

That audience laugh sign was working overtime throughout this one

[@conrad1478]

The show had an opportunity to make us all laugh in these troubling times and they blew it

[@B01]

I stopped watching, saw this and figured they couldn't possibly mess up such an opportunity. Was proven wrong, and here goes another few months of not wasting my time with this nonsense. AI could have done it better

[@LisaRichards_123]

Because antisemitism is so absolutely funny?

[@conrad1478]

@@LisaRichards_123 You know that’s not what I said

[@bridgetteshealy]

No because Stefanik was portrayed ridiculous and annoying while the real joke was the Univ presidents and they could have been lampooned far better, SNL failed to make us laugh. It was a waste of cold open. @@LisaRichards_123

[@dwhitman1822]

There hasn’t been a genuine funny joke on SNL since the 90s. If you find their jokes funny, you should get outside more often.

[@pangalactictuber]

The writers’ takeaway from this week was that Stefanik was annoying with her line of questioning? Seriously?

[@philb.1502]

They were mocking Stefanik for being a Trump boot licking MAGA election denier and opportunist. Her fake outrage at the responses of the University Presidents was comical.

[@douglaslucas2155]

The writers couldn't admit that a stopped clock is right twice a day. That would be compromising with the enemy. The story of our broken politics.

[@AloisWeimar]

Why do “the writers” need to do anything for you in particular? It was a weak milquetoast sketch that tried to play it “safe” and a reminder that this is a corporate product on a network owned by G.E.

[@JenningsFilmsinc]

​@@AloisWeimarGE doesn't own NBC. They sold it to Comcast over a decade ago.

[@CrimsonBlasphemy]

Ya, the take away is that Congresswoman Stefanik is pro-fascist grifter who suck on any humanitarian criss. And would happily force deport all American Citizens of Jewish ancestry to Israel if she could, to further her agenda of Christofascism and Rapture Culture.

[@liamphibia]

Remember when SNL was hilarious and we had to watch it with our friends and family for good ol laughs? I liked that.😌

[@joeschmoe6720]

Chris Farley days. That cast could make you die laughing. Best of SNL

[@ChannelMath]

yea, but we were just really bored before the internet. If you go back and watch entire episodes, they were never much better (unless, of course, it's your politics getting in the way)

[@Nestor123057]

One bad skit does not tarnish and entire show. They've had some good ones.

[@DocnoXXX]

​@@Nestor123057 Not sure if it's a generational thing, but I haven't seen any. Which ones would you recommend?

[@holmesd5003]

they used to be so good with everyone on that cast becoming movie stars. Now it's so strange, it's like a circus.

[@Yaara1115]

How did they manage to watch that hearing and end up thinking Stefanik was the ridiculous character in need of some satire treatment?

[@davidrichardson8855]

I had really low expectations and SNL exceeded them. This should have been a lay-up.

[@bretthess6376]

He SHOOTS...... ANNND... HE MISSES

[@PNadav183]

Quite similar to my reaction to the hearing they are referring to.

[@joshuafrank3803]

@@PNadav183 What a guy!

[@lanceporter3651]

SNL is a joke. A shell of what it once was in both relevance and talent. They’re activists, much like the university presidents.

[@arwyss]

They exceeded your expectations? I do t think you fully understand how words work.

[@amt-vi1uo]

They had a golden opportunity but went the usual “make fun of the republican” route. I was embarrassed for Molly and Chloe.

[@stefanpuffer]

It's all that they are allowed to do.

[@amt-vi1uo]

@@stefanpuffer what do you mean?

[@hannacook859]

You can make fun of everyone without making it look like you are ok with bullying American Jews for something they have no control over.

[@Bls-of1ld]

​@@amt-vi1uothey don't mock democrats .. haven't in a decade

[@mstenikawatson7484]

​@@Bls-of1ldthe "diversity" comments aren't considered mocking the Democrats? Get outta the cult.

[@dylanc2516]

The only funny thing I found clicking this video was the comment section. I'm surprised they didn't turn them off...

[@pablom2706]

I literally paused the video and started reading the comments

[@enimation4924]

same LOL

[@LeagueofJay137]

The fact that they're making fun of the person who actually was the voice of reason, shows how woke SNL is And making fun of a jewish holiday. Not cool

[@markusaloyan1833]

I watched this with an open mind and didn’t laugh, or even smile, once

[@geekwithabs]

SNL constantly leans so left that you can use it to host NASCAR 😂

[@douglassgreaux3592]

Wow that audience was generous to laugh as much as it did.

[@LIGHTUPFRIDAYS]

They weren't stuffy

[@Dano12345100]

The university presidents left themselves open to be relentlessly mocked, which they deserved, by SNL but the cast blew it!

[@dbrikashaw9147]

Complete fails like that are purposeful. FSNL.

[@johnsain]

They mocked Stefanik instead....

[@dank2171]

Yeah this is pathetic. They took the worst take. Snl has turned into republicans are bad no matter what. It's just shows they can't make fun of both sides. When the progressive left is ridiculous why can't we make fun and laugh at them the same we laugh at trumpers. This is why comedy is dead. You can say genocide jews but you can't make of progressives.

[@MoMo-xh9vs]

@@johnsainof course they did, the brain dead need a another reason to think conservative leaders are nothing but buffoons.

[@DrSbaitsojr]

@@dbrikashaw9147 SNL isn't for boomers

[@sakenu16]

Skits like this are the reason for why KZbin should have never removed the dislike count for videos.

[@Winterfrost0]

Well, as of right now, it has 7,322 likes and 8,866 dislikes. You should download an extension for that.

[@SeekLuminousThings]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@bluebird3281]

@@Winterfrost0 Thanks

[@misterknee]

@@Winterfrost0 Thanks I just found return-youtube-dislike Chrome extension. It's 15k dislikes to 9.9k likes now.

[@InquisitorVelisvel]

10k likes 20k dislikes as of this comment

[@IAmTruth-xj4es]

Who wrote this sketch? Names please.

[@Cactina]

I'll never get tired of Kenan sliding in like a creep in a variety of SNL situations 😅

[@SFreije1]

Interesting bit of trivia, SNL used to be a comedy show.

[@josephmiller3822]

They seriously made fun of Elise Stefanik more than the three women who wouldn’t condemn speech calling for genocide against Jews? Unreal.

[@dietotaku]

they knew what they were doing. if any of them had said "we condemn speech calling for the genocide of jews," stefanik would have immediately labeled any criticism of israel and/or support for palestinian civilians as "calling for the genocide of jews." hate the conservatives like stefanik who are turning this into a game, not the academics who have her pegged and won't get roped in.

[@handle8431]

SNL writers are part of Leftist Islamofascist alliance

[@LoveSierraAnastasia]

Stefanik was misrepresenting the definition of the speech in question. They weren't allowing her to get away with it so gave vague answers. The point was the speech in question is not antisemitic. People are trying to broaden the definition now so anyone pro Palestine is suddenly supporting genocide. But it's funny because their only concern is genocide against the jewish (which no one is asking or calling for except minority radicals maybe if anyone), the genocide against the Palestinians don't count

[@charlesartis4067]

Noticed that too. Absolutely insane.

[@JenningsFilmsinc]

​@@dietotakuThen why did they retract their statements the next day and one president has already resigned?

[@bsusak09]

This was CRAZY tone deaf.

[@frankricci88]

They literally blew it on perhaps the easiest sketch premise in the last 3 years. Sure, the congresswoman asking a BASIC question was the problem...

[@terpenstine]

They are calling for genocide and should apologize

[@robsuffridge9298]

SNL are Jew haters! There okay with the killing of Jews! We celebrate Christmas every year year, Jesus Christ Birthday, gods only son who he gave to Jewish parents Mary and David! I hope that none of these cast members are celebrating Christmas with their family and friends! They should be denouncing Christmas and Jesus Christ! After all he was raised by Jews!

[@lollipoptrees9148]

They are not calling for genocide. No one besides zionists are calling for a genocide.

[@dylans.1741]

I get what they were trying to do, or at least I think so. The point of the sketch was to "both sides" the issue by portraying both parties as equally incompetent. HOWEVER, that doesn't work when one side is asking simple yes or no questions about the topic of antisemitism and the other is refusing to properly answer. To be clear, I am a liberal Democrat, and I do not align ideologically with Representative Stefanik. However, even I will say that the notion of her being just as incompetent as the people refusing to outright condemn antisemitic behavior is a false equivalency. If they wanted to portray Stefanik in an exaggerated and comedic manner, that's fine, but they should have done so in a way that makes it clear that it's the college professors who we're supposed to be laughing at, not the Congress Members. There's a difference between satire and being the thing you claim to be making fun of, and sketches like this, for all intents and purposes, are a prime example of being the thing.

[@terpenstine]

@@dylans.1741 you either condemn genocide or you support it. Don’t need a paragraph explanation

[@gnuibrunst]

SNL really hopes that people watching their show is so stupid that they didn't watch the original video. The woman questioning them wasn't screaming like a crazy person

[@thedude4672]

*Is* they stupid? 🤣🤣

[@wintersbabyy]

Lmaoo, crying antisemitism while simultaneously cheering a genocide by your people is interesting. The woman and most people on her side are delusional.

[@clenke0]

quite the opposite, snl was hoping their audience was smart but forgot rule number 1- know your audience-

[@timmiller661]

No, but she is a flaming hypocrite

[@thetortoise4107]

​@@timmiller661 exactly - she is absolutely a hypocrite. she supports incredibly anti-semitic politicians in the republican party but she'll cry anti-semitism if theres a chance it will hurt the left. Like this skit mentions she also doesn't give a fuck about islamophobia on college campuses.

[@Slyflea007]

Well that might be the last we see of Troast

[@Professor__Cow]

First Magill and now Gay resigns today, exiting as the shortest running president in Harvard history. Not so funny now, is it?

[@jankrekan2632]

Oh God. Now I understand what Norm MacDonald meant when he said, that this show got really, really bad.

[@TJ-kk5zf]

And they can't even have him back on to say it

[@chamuuemura5314]

Lorne Michaels had them stealing his jokes and had him sleeping in the dog house.

[@TRJ2241987]

Added irony is that the show was extremely good when Norm said that in comparison to now. I don't even think Darrell Hammond could have saved this sketch.

[@hannacook859]

You're mocking a lady who asked a simple question, and sounds nothing like the impression. And avoiding mocking three clowns who couldn't say genocide is bad...

[@davegerrish8210]

The questions were disingenuous. Stefanik supports Trump. Trump refused to condemn the Charlottesville rally where people shouted "Jews will not replace us"

[@johngoldsworthy7135]

@@davegerrish8210yeah and the entire world talked about Trump and that issue for 4 years. Meanwhile you libs are literally supporting Hamas openly. Can you explain how you have enough sense perception to conceptualize reality without going into psychosis from the incomprehensible irony of your stupidity?

[@JesusIsKingAndSavior]

@@davegerrish8210 Who cares about Charlottesville? From C-Ville, to Floyd - to J6 - they were all false flags. Set ups of perception. The same as 9/11 (Building 7?, The pentagon "plane"). The media is owned by the 0.00001%, and you're just going to believe everything they say??? Why don't you people ever look at anything deeply??? Can you imagine what 500k dead Ukraine men would say now to you; for a war that didn't need to happen, but the war industry needed it's pound of flesh? More people are homeless now in the US than ever, because of unfettered prices? Why don't you people ever look at anything deeply???

[@OrthodoxInquirer]

​@@davegerrish8210 There's a Prager U video about this. There were people who were not Antifa and not white supremacists at the protest in Charlottesville. Because the media just clipped out the section where he said there were good people on both sides and played it ad nauseum, no one realized he said in the next sentence that he was not talking about the white supremacists, which he totally condemned. Would he have really said the Antifa people were good? Good people on both sides meant the numerous normal people against the statue because it is a painful reminder of the past and the other side who were for history being preserved so we can learn from it. That was the majority in attendance. He did a terrible job with that press conference, but the media has lied about it until the present day.

[@myjeevie]

Thank you for the best comment here among too many who seem unclear as to what happened in Congress, namely that Ms. Stefanik represented the best of America with her courage of conviction and moral clarity conveyed in her questions. The comments here for the most part give the impression that too many have no idea what actually happened in Congress and that they regard SNL as somehow being a worthy source of information through humor rather than another biased propaganda outlet saturated in Leftist bias. That their brand of "humor" was obviously meant to be derived from ridiculing Ms. Stefanik who was clearliy condemning anti-Semitism and calling out those University Presidents who fail to do the same, the propaganda and lies of the mainstream Leftist media continues to march on. Those not seeking the actual truth from mainstream liberal media outlets enable unfortunately.

[@nisiotisparis2583]

I guess what snl is trying to tell us but they are a bit too shy to openly say it, is that: "genocide is OK depending on the context of course" . Let's make fun of all those people who aren't OK with that statement.

[@juliandoespolitics4275]

No, the problem is what constitutes calling for genocide. Does supporting Israel mean you support genocide. Some say yes. Do you think we should ban Israel supporters from expressing their views on campus? Clearly not. Language is always context dependent, and meaning depends on a speakers intention. The universities actually supplied the correct answer.

[@nisiotisparis2583]

Accusing israel of comiting genocide is victim blaming and completely false. Now if you have college kids on campus screaming antisemitic slurs" from the river to the sea" and ignoring the fact that on October the 7th there was an indiscriminate massacre on civilians in Israel based on the fact that they were jewish that means that on U.S campuses you have problems with arab extremism​@juliandoespolitics4275

[@sprobablycancr4457]

The funniest thing here is that people made this.

[@kraigthorne3549]

This is some of the WORST writing I have ever seen from SNL. A saw the hearings and the writers had a TON of material they could have used.

[@xanderk84]

They didn't want to use it. It reflected poorly on the wrong side for them.

[@TheMirrorVision]

It's telling that SNL not only made this skit, but also hasn't pulled the video from KZbin as if they are doubling down on their stance...

[@mediocreman2]

Pretty shortsighted to think the extra money from KZbin will make up for their reputation being destroyed.

[@renyaw1963]

You could have made us laugh, “BUT OH NO”

[@MarcusDude4179]

This sketch is an INSTANT CLASSIC SNL sketch. Not because of how good it was, but because it was one of SNL's greatest flubs. It's gonna be right up there with the likes of: musical guest Ashlee Simpson getting caught lip-synching to the wrong song, Chris Farley's Bennett Brauer character flying on Weekend Update but the wires got tangled up, and of course Charles Rocket and Jenny Slate dropping their respective F-bombs.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

The other ones sound cool. This is just evil.

[@alruiz512]

This is the most engagement this channel has had on a single skit in a long time and it's ALL to tell them how terrible it was😂😂

[@richardgoodson8922]

Unfortunately, you’re right I wanted to see the full context of what everybody was talking about and now I want everybody fired, SNL and college representatives and professors

[@kagato23]

But you are engaging. It worked.

[@alruiz512]

@@kagato23 that's not something to be proud of. They are basically the equivalent of internet trolls

[@kagato23]

@@alruiz512 thing is your reaction to it is funnier than it had any hope of being.

[@alruiz512]

@@kagato23 yeah but the skit isn't funny. That's the issue

[@toughguychumzee]

“Do YoU tHiNk GeNoCide iS bAd??????” It’s not a silly question if the people trying to answer it have to waffle and can’t just say yes

[@WesleyWhiteside]

"She asked them if calling for the genocide of Jews violates the campus's policy on hate speech, that's hilarious!" -absolutely no one ever

[@diederikschip6190]

On the day this makes you laugh, the sky will fall down on us.

[@solarski2004]

Elise wasn't crazed, she was livid. These college professors that won't allow conversation around made up genders(a totally debatable topic) also said discussing the complete termination of an entire cultural group wasn't necessarily bullying "it depends on context". There is no value or context to calls for genocide. It is automatically "bullying" because, what it really is, it is terrorism.

[@arleciajackson9237]

Very eloquently said.

[@waltlock8805]

The problem is the first part. ALL speech should be permissible on college campuses. Hate speech is protected speech.

[@NeoN-PeoN]

Amen.

[@NeoN-PeoN]

@@waltlock8805 College campuses were the FIRST PLACE to use "hate speech" as a tool to shut their political opponents up. This whole event is simply those colleges AT LEAST being held to their OWN ridiculously foolish standards for speech.

[@rayfish007]

@@waltlock8805 Hate speech is protected speech. Inciting violence is not. If genocide is part of the speech that is a call to KILL PEOPLE. That is literal incitement of violence. And no protected at all, very much ILLEGAL.

[@emmasalgado7877]

So the worst thing Stefanik did was raise her voice? And those college deans are ok with genocide is the moral of the skit.

[@TfearWasHere]

we're Americans, how many natives have you met, and how many jews have you met?

[@hannacook859]

Did you see the hearing? She didn't raise her voice. And they were ok with calling for genocide as long as you don't perform genocide on campus

[@rafaelvargas1011]

​@@TfearWasHerewtf are you on about mate?

[@kenj.8897]

​@@TfearWasHerenative what ?

[@toadsauce8091]

@@TfearWasHerewait! You mean people did horrible things 200 years ago? That’s terrible!

[@dixiecronin7791]

I kept watching in horror, thinking that there was going to be a pivot, and that they would show the Congress woman as the hero that she is, but no... How could they possibly hate this woman more than the people who condone genocide??

[@jordangreen7824]

SNL writers watching the presidents before Congress “my god we are gonna annihilate this woman who can’t believe calling for genocide can be ok in some contexts, America will love us, and our ratings will be through the roof”

[@user-nb6tu5ph2h]

This is awful. They mock the fact that there was a hearing, not the horrific answers by these presidents.

[@anonymous-ll4qm]

Exactly! And the whole part where she says its not about islamophobia... beyond crazy to me. This hearing was about anti JEW hate. Why bring up something else and make her look "racist"?? When people said all lives matter they were cancelled on the spot. But this behavior is the same.

[@SMCulture]

Yep that’s where their heads are at sad

[@j-note3285]

Their answers may have been lame, but horrific? Is anything or everything horrific now.

[@hxjjdjd606]

@@j-note3285 Deutschland wird frei von die Juden!!!!

[@kornykitten]

@@j-note3285 You're definitely pro terrorist

[@TheDrewLaneShow]

this was the worst cold open in the history of saturday night live.

[@johnjones4426]

that is no exaggeration. These college presidents gave answers that were blatantly abhorrent, but they made Stefanik the butt of the joke just because "f republicans". Just baffling and shady

[@danpitbladdo3555]

Amazing. Tee ball strikeout.

[@Tal-wu9ss]

you know there's a second Holocaust when they mock the host instead of the college presidents who acted horrifyingly. SNL is a joke now, not what it was."

[@brib_brib_brib_bri]

This is even more disgusting than the actual hearings, and that's not easy to accomplish.

[@korlu01]

I know right!

[@bernieinnyc]

This is the absolute best comment on this thread.