The Huge Upside to ‘SNL’s Extreme Bias
Late-night institution ignores Bass, Newsom and California blame game

We didn’t expect “Saturday Night Live” to actually speak truth to power, did we?
The NBC show’s first episode since the California wildfires ravaged the state came and went without an uppercut thrown at the people who made the fires worse.
Much, much worse.
We can name them. LA Mayor Karen Bass. Governor Gavin Newsom. See? Not so hard.
Just point to their glaring incompetence – be it bone-dry reservoirs, the hyper-focus on DEI over merit or slashing firefighting budgets to fund more important programs like the Gay Men’s Chorus.
(Nothing wrong with such a program, but when you’re pinching pennies you have to make cuts)
Remember how “SNL” torched Sen. Ted Cruz for fleeing his state during a Texas deep freeze?
Yet crickets when Bass was MIA in Ghana during the worst disaster to strike her city … ever. The show couldn’t even mock Bass’ infamous “URL” moment, a Biden-esque gaffe tailor-made for political comedy.
Instead, “SNL” roasted President-Elect Donald Trump. Again.
Predictable. Sad. Frustrating. And, for those weaned on “SNL’s” glory days, another sign of the show’s irrelevance.
There’s an upside here, though.
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“SNL” no longer holds sway over the culture. We don’t quote the sketches or its comical characters. The show stopped producing movie stars on the level of Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler or Kristen Wiig.
That opens a massive lane for other voices to emerge. We’re already seeing it happen.
Old-school “SNL” alum David Spade is teaming with comedy rebel Theo Von for “Busboys.” The comedy, set in an Arizona border town, follows two guys who “think becoming waiters will solve all of their problems. They are wrong.”
David Spade and Theo Von are writing, directing, self-producing, self-financing, and starring in the movie Busboys. https://t.co/Clwkwcs0Wt
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) November 21, 2024
That’s not all.
Spade and Von co-wrote the script and are self-financing the project. That speaks volumes of where the industry is heading in 2025. Hollywood gatekeepers can’t keep the new guard out.
Another example?
Tim Dillon’s self-titled podcast costs a fraction of your average “SNL” episode and draws millions of views. And he’s far from alone.
Institutions like “SNL” and late-night TV will continue to shrink as they avoid reality and speak to a dwindling, hard-partisan base. The late-night landscape is already contracting, with “The Tonight Show” killing its Friday night schedule and “Late Night with Seth Meyers” axing the show’s band.
Now, Americans will keep looking elsewhere for smart, savvy comedy that speaks to the times we live in. They’re already doing that via “Gutfeld!”
They arrested 2 people who were hiding in Kamala’s house and some jokes about Karen Bass. Enjoy. #adamhunter #Gutfeld #FoxNews #KarenBass #Karen pic.twitter.com/bXTKmUBflZ
— Adam Hunter (@AdamComedian) January 14, 2025
The Fox News smash didn’t ignore Mayor Bass’ gaffes. The show’s comedy lineup tore into them, a refreshing change from the Hollywood status quo.
“SNL” and late-night partisans will keep chasing a shrinking progressive base, but will even they stick around for the same ol’ yuks in Trump 2.0? We’re already seeing progressive news outlets like MSNBC and CNN shed viewers at an alarming rate post-election.
Some may come back in the weeks to come, but not all of them.
Even liberal viewers understand they’ve been fed a false bill of goods about the culture and politics and they’re looking elsewhere for news.
Something similar will happen on the comedy front.
It explains why a conspiratorial comic like Joe Rogan hosts one of the country’s biggest podcasts. Or when Team Trump wanted to reach wary voters he courted rebel comics like Andrew Schulz, Tim Dillon and Von.
Consumers know “SNL” won’t shoot straight with them. The show’s all-too-obvious agenda greets them with every sketch. Even its MSNBC cold open felt off, a lame attempt to mock like-minded souls that pulled every imaginable punch.
Help is on the way. And, by ignoring reality, “SNL” is holding the door open for its replacement.
Sadly, the days of “Turd Ferguson” and “Sean Connery” are gone – dead (for real) and buried! I USED to watch SNL as often as possible because it was funny. WAS funny! Johnny Carson gave way to Jay Leno and then to I DON’T KNOW! The Tonight Show went from very funny with interesting guests to slightly funny with OLD interesting guests and then people who THOUGHT they were interesting and then to “IDK” and nothing! I never really cared much for Letterman so whoever replaced him – have no idea! The weasel, I can’t even remember his name – tall, skinny, black hair, unfunny, angry that Our Nation is not being further destroyed, and totally unhinged! Odd that no one has ever been described as “hinged” or “gruntled”! BUT, whatever his name is he’s on his way to a basement and bathtub with a rubber duck like the seemingly very disturbed Keith Olberman! I rarely watch Gutfeld – I guess he’s ok, but tries too hard to be funny. Odd thing – it’s easy to make fun of honest, decent, right thinking Americans, but ridiculing the left just seems like taking a stick and stirring a fresh cow patty!
SNL, like the rest of the culture over the last several decades, has been incorporated and chickified. Nothing but whooping females and their metrosexual consorts in the audience, which is reflected in the cast. Safe predictable leftism, primarily for women.
Original (75-80) SNL was leftwing, but completely wild, unhinged, driven-by-coke dangerous comedy.
Watch the first five years and forget the rest. Once it became successful, corporate took over and that was it.
Liberal double standards.
I keep hoping SNL will become funny again. I DVR it and he really speed to Weekend Updste
So many musical guests I’ve never heard of who hit ate and scream
Dave Chappell almost saved it. Almost
What exactly is “right” about using public funds to support a choir consisting of people id’d solely by their sexual appetite? Let people who support such things privately and if it can survive, fine. But forcing people who don’t agree with the alphabet community to support a non-essential program isn’t right at all. Another example of Toto having drunk the gay Kool-Aid.
Democrats watch SNL on their 19″ RCA black and white TV with rabbit ears. This is how out of touch they are. They haven’t figured out why they lost…
A cable news network is crushing all the ‘free’ broadcast channels on a nightly basis with Gutfeld! That says everything about how tired and uninspiring SNL and the so-called late night ‘comics’ are over the last few years. For the entire time when I was growing up, Johnny Carson was the most popular late night comedy/interview show, and I don’t think I (or most Americans) ever really knew where he stood politically. Jay Leno continued that tradition, for the most part, and his ratings showed it as he continually crushed the increasingly more political David Letterman. Instead of going back to something that worked, all the networks doubled down with more and more leftist preaching about 0bamacare, gun control, and every cause du jour. The NFL similarly ruined their image by pushing BLM nonsense. Hopefully they will learn their lessons, but I won’t hold my breath. In the meantime, I’ll keep watching Gutfeld and other non-woke comedy alternatives.
When mainstream media and comedy shows stop addressing the truth in our culture, the personalities, local, national and international issues that Americans deal with everyday, they are relegating themselves to the dustbin of history. Where they rightfully belong.
Jimmy Failla also has a weekly comedy show on Fox News on Saturday nights. Recently added a studio audience. Dude’s hilarious.