A steady and fierce backlash has been brewing against “Saturday Night Live” over its recent sketch lampooning the U.S. Congressional hearing with Ivy League university presidents about the growing wave of antisemitism on campus.
As Breitbart News reported over the weekend, the sketch often trolled the “consistently opaque answers offered by three academic leaders in their testimony at a House hearing on antisemitism” while also skewering Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik despite the fact she asked serious questions about calls for genocide against Jews on college campuses.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) also drew criticism on the SNL segment, even though she was the one actively challenging antisemitism, which featured Claudine Gay, Sally Kornbluth, and Liz Magill—the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively—who testified in front of Congress on Tuesday about the alarming rise in antisemitic incidents on college campuses across America (including their own) since the Hamas-Israel war began on Oct. 7.
The sketch did not receive a warm welcome online, with people calling it offensive and wrong. Here are some of the hottest of the hot takes.
“Saturday Night Live is a place where comedy goes to die.” pic.twitter.com/gnrcMWcZeK
TakingHayekSeriously (@FriedrichHayek) December 11, 2023
Saturday Night Live hates Republicans more than antisemitism
@RepStefanik#SNL #Harvard #MIT #UPenn https://t.
