Comedian Adam Carolla said Monday that programs like “Saturday Night Live” were “afraid” of attacking Democrats like President Joe Biden or Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York for fear they would be “canceled.”
In the first installment since Biden took office, the sketch comedy show largely skipped its administration, but rather celebrated segments or pieces in which Georgia turned blue, and the controversial representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., And even the attack on Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
“Honestly, I get what it takes to hate Donald Trump,” Carolla told America’s Newsroom. “What’s there about loving Joe Biden? That’s the bigger question if you’re SNL. OK, you hated Trump, okay. Why do you love Joe Biden? There’s nothing to love about Joe Biden, unless you’re afraid of being canceled, and the fact that this culture of cancellation has been transferred to comedy is absolutely insane. ‘
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SNL left little doubt during the 2020 election that he would prefer Biden to win, and even referred to his inauguration this month as good news during his “Weekend Update” segment.
Cuomo’s nursing home scandal was also not left untouched by the program. According to a report by the state’s attorney general, Letitia James, Cuomo came under fire for underreporting deaths at the coronavirus nursing home.
‘No comedians say anything about Governor [Gavin] Newsom of Governor Cuomo. Where are the comedians? They’re scared, and it’s a tight spot to be, ‘Carolla said.
“Unfortunately, their hand has now been forced,” he added. “They have to show their hypocrisy … You did 7,000 episodes about what an idiot Trump is, and then you do not touch the next government? I would do one, even if I loved Biden if I were SNL, just so I do not appear hypocritical. ‘
The first SNL of 2021 was hosted by the Los Angeles Times as critic Lorraine Ali wrote that Donald Trump may have killed satire.
“If Trump has won one victory in the past month, it could be that ‘SNL’ suddenly looks lost without him,” she wrote.
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The program famously mourned Trump’s victory in 2016, while Kate McKinnon, an imitator of Hillary Clinton, did a serious rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in his first cold open after the election.