We’re starting to wonder if Saturday Night Live has had a mental breakdown of its own since Trump won the election. Seriously.
Last night the show included a “short” that cast Kellyanne Conway and Jake Tapper in “Fatal Attraction,” and honestly it came off as more creepy than funny.
Kellyanne Conway is *not* going to be ignored by @jaketapper. #SNL pic.twitter.com/ttdTYjBOUY
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) February 12, 2017
We get it, they don’t like Kellyanne Conway but this just comes off as mean – sorta like Baldwin’s Trump impression.
Mean spirited and super creepy.
And poor Jake Tapper saw it this morning:
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 12, 2017
Um indeed and YIKES.
did you know you'd be the star of SNL this week?
— katie (@theparsleythief) February 12, 2017
Star? More like a target really.
no —
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 12, 2017
She'll do whatever it takes. #SNL pic.twitter.com/WaMXtpNtyE
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) February 12, 2017
Also, would someone let SNL know that they’re officially sexist?
Oh wait, it doesn’t work that way? But we thought when a show made fun of a powerful woman that was sexism or something.
Imagine the screeching if they portrayed Hillary Clinton in this way.
sick ass people. Should be ashamed, taking it too far. You all need help.??
— Kathy Cluster (@kcluster) February 12, 2017
This was definitely taking it too far. If they have to take their comedy to this level they’re not comedians anymore.
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Casting Kellyanne Conway as Glenn Close was a miscalculation on SNL's part. Will be interpreted as unfair and mean to a wife and mother.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) February 12, 2017
Exactly. Mean to a wife and a mom … and poor Jake.
That Tapper-Conway sketch was Funny or Die-level awful. Also actually offensive. Ill-considered.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 12, 2017
Offensive. Good word.
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Doesn’t even really do justice to the movie and again, comes across as angry and bitter, not funny.
SNL has a real issue.
@nbcsnl Not. Funny.
Exceptionally. Poor. Taste.— LovableRetrieverOwnerCalvin (@MWBRI) February 12, 2017
You would hope if they were going to do something of this exceptionally poor taste they would at least try and make it funny.
Sadly for SNL, at this rate they *will* be ignored by more and more viewers.
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