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On 2023-12-26, Leroy N. Soetoro <
democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov> wrote:
https://nypost.com/2023/12/10/entertainment/snl-swings-and-misses-with- cold-open-attempting-to-skewer-antisemitism-hearings-hours-after-upenn- president-liz-magill-resigns/
Viewers blasted Saturday Night Lives cold opener after the show mocked this weeks congressional hearings on antisemitism on college campuses hours after University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned amid
a flurry of backlash over her testimony.
The opening sketch, set up as a C-SPAN broadcast, tried to poke fun at the presidents of Harvard, UPenn and MIT portrayed by Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner and Chloe Fineman, respectively as they testified before the
House Education Committee.
There were few laughs to be heard from the audience.
Viewers took to social media to slam the sketch, which some saw as undermining thehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZLtCJOsU2 seriousness of incidents of antisemitism
on college
campuses in recent weeks since Israels war with Hamas began on Oct. 7.
Others thought it was just flat-out bad.
Newcomer Chloe Troast played Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), an outspoken
Donald Trump supporter, and targeted her line of questioning during the hearing as the butt of the sketch.
Im going to start yelling questions at these women like Billy Eichner, she says.
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Antisemitism yay or nay? she screams at the three women. Yes or no! Is calling for the genocide of Jews against the code of conduct for Harvard?
Well, it depends on the context, answers Nwodims Dr. Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard.
What? That cant be your answer, Troasts Stefanik shoots back.
UPenn lady, same question, yes or no? she asks Gardners Magill.
Well, we are serious about stopping all forms of hatred, anti-semitism, Islamophobia, she answers. Stefanik then poses the same question to Finemans Dr. Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT.
If you dont say yes, youre going to make me look good, which is really, really hard to do, Troasts Stefanik says. So I will ask you straight up. Do you think genocide is bad?
Finemans Kornbluth responds: Could I submit an answer in writing at a later date?
Am I winning this hearing? an incredulous Stefanik says. Somebody pinch me!
The three presidents breathe a sigh of relief when Stefanik learns her
time is up, but another member of the committee yields their time back to her, giving her another chance to speak.
I am here today because hate speech has no place on college campuses.
Hate speech belongs in Congress, on Elon Musks Twitter, at private
dinners with my donors and in public speeches by my work husband, Donald Trump, Troasts Stefanik says.
The sketch also ridiculed the vague, evasive answers from the academic leaders.
Only a hate-filled, anti-Semitic SNL could do a sketch about the anti- Semitic college presidents testifying in front of Congress and make the questioner Congresswoman Stefanik the target of the sketch, radio host
Mark Simone tweeted.
Rather remarkable how few laughs there were in #SNLs Cold Open. They oddly tried to skewer Elise Stefanik (who by all accounts won the day)
as shrill. I guess I was under the misapprehension that calling a woman shrill was sexist, one X user posted.
pic.twitter.com/xb7GjAM8Sy
Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) December 10, 2023
The worst cold open on SNL Ive ever seen the audience was barely laughing, another wrote.
Gotta be the worst cold open Ive ever seen on SNL absolutely abysmal, another said.
Another user remarked: SNL is taking a big swing in the cold open and it looks like its going to be a miss
While largely falling flat, the sketch was somewhat saved by an appearance from show veteran Kenan Thompson, who played the president of the online University of Phoenix.
Can you take a moral stance on anything? Can anyone here say yes to a single question? Troasts Stefanik shouts.
I am willing to say yes to anything, Thompson says.
See, see, finally. A real president of a real university, Stefanik answers.
Thats actually our school motto: U of P: We are a real university, he answers.
Her Stefanik asks if he would promise to eliminate antisemitism from the schools campus.
My campus is the internet. Antisemitism is kind of our most popular
major, and our mascot is porn, Thompson quipped.
The real Stefanik, meanwhile, gave a scorching response when news of Magills resignation broke.
One down. Two to go, the congresswoman posted on X.
SNL hasn't been funny since Belushi and The Blues Brothers were cast members. Mid to late 70's I believe.
Oh, and everyone knows that Mel Brooks and to a lesser degree Woody Allen are the only ones
permitted to make fun of Jews.
And every other race BTW.
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