‘SNL’ Mocks Tucker Carlson, Gets Pundit 100 Percent Wrong

“Saturday Night Live” could have a field day with the Right’s fallen stars.

Think Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, once dependable conservatives who have steered into chronic anti-Israel rage.

Hard.

Draw your own conclusions as to why. It’s not complicated.

Both Carlson and Owens give satirists endless material of late, above and beyond partisan critiques. Carlson’s current monologues blaming Israel for every ill under the sun are a comedian’s dream come true.

Owens’ deep thoughts, including time travel rants and smears against Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, might be too unhinged for traditional satire.

Yet “SNL” hasn’t gone after either ripe target … until last night.

Tucker Carlson stops by the desk to talk Oscar nominations pic.twitter.com/Su5vdbQ6UP

— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) March 15, 2026

The latest “SNL” episode found Carlson, played by Jeremy Culhane, examining the final days of the Oscar race and potential Best Picture winners.

Think “Sinners,” the bravura vampire romp from director Ryan Coogler.

“Because of course, Leftist woke America’s favorite movie this year is about sinning. Huh? Really? Why does that not surprise me? Sorry, kids. We don’t go to church anymore. We go to ‘Sinners.’ That’s the rule. That’s the goal now,” the faux Carlson said.

Moving on to another awards season darling, Carlson skewered the Shakespearean drama “Hamnet,” also up for Best Picture.

“We’re not allowed to say Hamlet anymore,” he cracked. “They took the ‘L’ and gave it to the LGBTQ,” he said. 

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As for “Bugonia,” Carlson said heterosexual women aren’t allowed to have hair anymore.

The bit wasn’t very funny, which isn’t surprising for modern-day “SNL.” What stood out is two-fold. The Left’s silly view of the Right, vis-à-vis culture, came across as wildly uninformed.

Some conservatives did attack “Sinners” as being a DEI-style pick due to the mostly black cast and racism themes.

.@BuckSexton: “Sinners is like murder porn of white people. It is horrible. It is horrifying.” pic.twitter.com/2QLweAp1fu

— The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show (@clayandbuck) January 26, 2026

This critic considers that ill-advised, in part because most critics and audiences loved the film and it earned at least some of its Oscar nominations.

Handing the film 16 nominations, more than any other film in Oscars history, is another matter.

Still, that line of comedic attack would be based in some truth. That’s how the best satire works.

But “SNL” scribes don’t even know who Carlson is in 2026. He went from a firebrand Fox News star to a raging Israel hater who promotes conspiracy theorists and skewers the U.S. Military.

The show’s obvious lack of ideological diversity behind the scenes allowed this limp sketch to flower. It missed its target by a wide margin.

Culhane’s impression nailed some of Carlson’s catch phrases and his maniacal laugh, but it missed who the pundit has become over the last two years.

Did anyone on the writing staff bother to Google the real Carlson’s recent monologues? They aren’t smart, sophisticated or remotely conservative.

If you’re going to imitate a famous person, as “SNL” has done for decades, it helps to know who the person actually is.