Sunday, March 31, 2019

SNL Commits Hate Crime Against Jussie Smollet, Somehow Making a Potentially Hilarious Situation Boring As All Fuck


From Yahoo:
Saturday Night Live made a point of being an equal opportunity offender in its first episode back after a two-week break. As usual the cold open addressed the latest Donald Trump news–specifically the long-anticipated release of Robert Mueller’s report–and featured the return of Robert De Niro for the fifth, and likely final, time as Mueller. 
But the night’s first live sketch was a surprisingly savage take on Empire star Jussie Smollett, who was back in the news this week after Chicago prosecutors stunned the city and the entire nation by dropping all charges against him for allegedly staging his own attack. 
Entitled “Network Meeting,” the sketch opens in a boardroom where a trio of executives played by Mikey Day, Kate McKinnon and Ego Nwodim are seated alongside Kenan Thompson as Empire co-creator, Lee Daniels, and the night’s host, Sandra Oh, as Smollett’s manager. 
“Just give Jussie another chance,” Oh begs, trying to make them overlook the fact that her embattled client is two hours late to the meeting. “I just hope it’s not some crazy excuse,” Daniels remarks, with a sigh. 
At that moment, Smollett (played by Chris Redd) bursts into the room, holding a plastic bag and wearing Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” hat. (Earlier in the week, Trump weighed in the prosecutors’ decision to drop disorderly conduct charges agains the actor, calling it, “an embarrassment to our nation.”) 
“Guys, you are not gonna believe what just happened to me,” he says, to groans of “Not again” in the room.
GO READ THE WHOLE THING.

The Left is Lynching Jussie Smollet.

He got the virulent elements in their "Movement" really hot, and they got really jealous, and they decided they needed rally around with torches and pitchforks and hang him on a tree.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You're exactly right. Could have been funny, but they didn't want to stick the knife in ALL THE WAY by being really funny.