SNL cold open: Is Trump funny anymore?

[Sparkly]

Is it just me? I don't find any amusement in impersonations, satire, ironic skits, or other 'humor' meant to make fun of that monster destroying people's lives.

Maybe it's just me. Or just me tonight. Or something.

[Srkdqltr]

1. Trump isn't funny.

[Conjuay]

2. and SNL hasn't been funny for about 40 years now.

[Skittles]

9. I disagree

it may not be your cup of tea but I've seen plenty of great SNL clips during that time

[Intractable]

14. SNL is between 20% and 30% funny.

Most of the sketches suck, but it has been that way for decades. Most sketch comedy sucks.

It's hard stuff to write. (I have tried. I suck at it, too.)

If it were written by AI, we'd call it slop.

I've seen lots over the years from SNL that was good, biting comedy. But, one can sit through a lot of acts until there's a real laugh.

[yellow dahlia]

3. Good point.

SNL could hold Congress's feet to the fire. They deserve scrutiny and ridicule.

[Silent Type]

4. He isn't funny, but glad SNL, late night shows, View, etc., keep pressure up.

[Initech]

5. I've been saying this for years now.

Satire ain't funny anymore when it's impossible to tell satire from reality, and reality is far more horrifying than any fictional scenarios you could come up with.

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. Nothing is funny about a President who contributed to the deaths of 200,000 lives

due to his inept response to the COVID 19 pandemic in his 1st term. He was stupid then....he hasn't got smarter now,

[Skittles]

10. we don't have to go back that far

look up how many people have died because of loss of USAID

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. Hard to keep count.

But he clearly cares fuck-all about any of us. My question is, how is he selling us out now?

[wanderer54]

17. But they are mostly ...

dark-complected FURRINERS. /s

[Skittles]

18. yeah i know they don't count

but to be fair, Trump doesn't give a fucking about anyone he is killing

[Whyisthisstillclose]

7. I hate his face, his voice, and his mannerisms. But I love the fact that he is watching people make fun of him.

And knowing millions of people are laughing at him makes my Saturday nights livable.

[tanyev]

8. My hope is that the SNL political sketches reach a lot of people who don't pay attention to the news like we do here.

[Srkdqltr]

12. I really wanted to like Cher, really i did, but no.

[Cha]

13. Not just you.. here's another one... I

don't find one thing about him "funny".

The Opposite.

[Gaugamela]

15. With Trump the reality outpaces parody. The real world is weirder than anything

SNL can come up with, so parody falls flat.

[meadowlander]

16. He's not funny, but laughing at him is winning.

[malaise]

19. No

It’s not funny.
NBC can continue laughing their way into fascism.
They made him

[hlthe2b]

20. SNL's Trump impersonation is a good one (although way too thin) but if it is not funny to us (and it is not)...

it is truly a mirror to Trump- so imagine how he perceives it. Perhaps a tiny bit useful in that context--short of loading his diaper with porcupine quills.

[Emile]

21. Making fun of a dictator, who ended our Democratic Republic, and turned

us into a fascist state is all we got.

[Borogove]

22. I didn't find it funny either.