Saturday Night Live engaged in some serious mask theater during the pandemic, and even those unintentionally comical moments were far funnier than other fits of political activism thinly disguised as comedy sketches. But the show’s real downfall became incredibly obvious just a few short years before that.
Recently Glenn Beck interviewed actor and former SNL performer Rob Schneider who explained when the show was “over,” and that moment was shortly after the 2016 election:
Comedy legend @RobSchneider tells me the moment he knew Saturday Night Live was "OVER": "I literally prayed, PLEASE have a joke at the end…" pic.twitter.com/Eyqh3GFnUG
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 29, 2022
If you missed that cold open the first time in 2016, first of all, congratulations! But this is how SNL’s first show after Trump defeated Clinton in 2016 opened:
Yeah, Schneider’s right — the late-night “comedy” show officially ended right there.
"You can take the comedic indoctrination process happening with each of the Late Night hosts and you can exchange them with each other. That's how you know it's not interesting anymore." https://t.co/2ec4WHeaCI
— Cari Kelemen 2.0 (@CariKelemen) August 29, 2022
So true.
You don't have to be a comedy legend to know that opening signaled that SNL now prioritizes political statements over entertainment https://t.co/NXhFHGtiiU
— Angus T. Kirk (@angusparvo) August 29, 2022
SNL was over when the era of Rob, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, etc was gone
— Liberty Cat (@michyln) August 29, 2022
SNL can still manage to have some funny sketches on occasion, but they are fewer and farther between than they used to be, that’s for sure.
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What happened to the funny late night shows? https://t.co/jFvmrhLKsQ— CHISPRTS1 (@KWSX40) August 29, 2022
Right? TDS has contributed to the ruination of more than just SNL.
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