The Huge Upside to ‘SNL’s Extreme Bias

January 21, 2025 admin Celebrity Gossip 0

We didn’t expect “Saturday Night Live” to actually speak truth to power, did we?

The NBC show’s first episode since the California wildfires ravaged the state came and went without an uppercut thrown at the people who made the fires worse.

Much, much worse.

We can name them. LA Mayor Karen Bass. Governor Gavin Newsom. See? Not so hard. 

Just point to their glaring incompetence – be it bone-dry reservoirs, the hyper-focus on DEI over merit or slashing firefighting budgets to fund more important programs like the Gay Men’s Chorus.

(Nothing wrong with such a program, but when you’re pinching pennies you have to make cuts)

Remember how “SNL” torched Sen. Ted Cruz for fleeing his state during a Texas deep freeze?

Yet crickets when Bass was MIA in Ghana during the worst disaster to strike her city … ever. The show couldn’t even mock Bass’ infamous “URL” moment, a Biden-esque gaffe tailor-made for political comedy.

Instead, “SNL” roasted President-Elect Donald Trump. Again.

Predictable. Sad. Frustrating. And, for those weaned on “SNL’s” glory days, another sign of the show’s irrelevance. 

There’s an upside here, though. 

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“SNL” no longer holds sway over the culture. We don’t quote the sketches or its comical characters. The show stopped producing movie stars on the level of Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler or Kristen Wiig.

That opens a massive lane for other voices to emerge. We’re already seeing it happen.

Old-school “SNL” alum David Spade is teaming with comedy rebel Theo Von for “Busboys.” The comedy, set in an Arizona border town, follows two guys who “think becoming waiters will solve all of their problems. They are wrong.”

That’s not all.

Spade and Von co-wrote the script and are self-financing the project. That speaks volumes of where the industry is heading in 2025. Hollywood gatekeepers can’t keep the new guard out.

Another example?

Tim Dillon’s self-titled podcast costs a fraction of your average “SNL” episode and draws millions of views. And he’s far from alone.

Institutions like “SNL” and late-night TV will continue to shrink as they avoid reality and speak to a dwindling, hard-partisan base. The late-night landscape is already contracting, with “The Tonight Show” killing its Friday night schedule and “Late Night with Seth Meyers” axing the show’s band.

Now, Americans will keep looking elsewhere for smart, savvy comedy that speaks to the times we live in. They’re already doing that via “Gutfeld!”

The Fox News smash didn’t ignore Mayor Bass’ gaffes. The show’s comedy lineup tore into them, a refreshing change from the Hollywood status quo.

“SNL” and late-night partisans will keep chasing a shrinking progressive base, but will even they stick around for the same ol’ yuks in Trump 2.0? We’re already seeing progressive news outlets like MSNBC and CNN shed viewers at an alarming rate post-election.

Some may come back in the weeks to come, but not all of them.

Even liberal viewers understand they’ve been fed a false bill of goods about the culture and politics and they’re looking elsewhere for news.

Something similar will happen on the comedy front.

It explains why a conspiratorial comic like Joe Rogan hosts one of the country’s biggest podcasts. Or when Team Trump wanted to reach wary voters he courted rebel comics like Andrew Schulz, Tim Dillon and Von.

Consumers know “SNL” won’t shoot straight with them. The show’s all-too-obvious agenda greets them with every sketch. Even its MSNBC cold open felt off, a lame attempt to mock like-minded souls that pulled every imaginable punch.

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Help is on the way. And, by ignoring reality, “SNL” is holding the door open for its replacement.

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