Comedian Adam Carolla said Monday that shows like “Saturday Night Live” were “afraid” of attacking Democrats like President Joe Biden or New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for fear of being “canceled.”
On the first episode since Biden took office, the sketch comedy show largely skipped its administration, instead doing segments or bits celebrating Georgia turning blue, controversial rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., And even the assault. from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
“Honestly, I understand what’s to hate about Donald Trump,” Carolla said on America’s Newsroom. That’s the bigger question if you’re SNL. Okay, you hated Trump, fine. Why do you love Joe Biden? There’s nothing to love about Joe Biden unless you’re afraid to have been canceled, and the fact that this cancellation culture has turned into comedy is absolutely insane. “
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SNL left little doubt in the 2020 election that it preferred Biden to win, and even referred to his inauguration this month as good news during the “Weekend Update” segment.
Cuomo’s nursing home scandal was also left untouched by the show. Cuomo has come under fire in the past year for underreporting deaths in nursing homes from the coronavirus, according to a report by state Attorney General Letitia James.
“No comedian says anything about the governor [Gavin] Newsom or Governor Cuomo. Where are the comedians? They’re scared, and that’s a scary place to be, ‘said Carolla.
“Unfortunately their hand is now forced,” he added. “They have to show their hypocrisy … You did 7,000 episodes about what an idiot Trump is, and then you don’t touch the next administration? I would do one even if I loved Biden, if I’m SNL, just so I don’t seem hypocritical. “
The first SNL of 2021 was panned by the Los Angeles Times, when critic Lorraine Ali wrote that Donald Trump may have murdered satire.
“If Trump has had one victory in the last month, ‘SNL’ may suddenly seem lost without him,” she wrote.
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The show famously mourned Trump’s 2016 victory, with Hillary Clinton impersonator Kate McKinnon performing a serious rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in its first cold opening post-election.