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Disappointed fans slam SNL for 'awful' Trump skits in lackluster first show back: 'Another flop'
The Daily Mail ^ | 05 Oct 2025 | JOE HUTCHISON and SOPHIE GABLE

Posted on 10/05/2025 12:33:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Disappointed Saturday Night Live fans have blasted last night's show as unfunny, after the new season kicked off on a sour note.

The late-night sketch comedy show opened its 51st season with a jab at Donald Trump's crackdown on TV, with James Austin Johnson reprising his role as Trump.

Colin Jost was dropped in as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he gave an SNL rendition of his recent viral speech to top army brass earlier this week.

Jost had portrayed Hegseth as a boozed up frat commander hellbent on rewriting military culture.

'Our military will now have the same rules as any good frat party. No fat chicks, and if you're a fat dude, god damn it, you better be funny as hell!' Jost joked.

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1 posted on 10/05/2025 12:33:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Just wondering during four years of Dementia Joe and his drunken VP, did SNL ever go after them, even ONCE..my guess is NO even though they had enough material to last 20+ yrs


2 posted on 10/05/2025 12:37:08 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Liberals are just not funny. They are so motivated by hate it just comes off as negative. Not fun to watch. You can find things to make fun of on both sides. Plenty.


3 posted on 10/05/2025 12:38:15 PM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: MinorityRepublican

I was watching our local news and when it ended, SNL started up. It immediately went to some retarded-looking Hegseth impersonator and I hit the “off” button.


4 posted on 10/05/2025 12:40:58 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why don’t they just rename the show. ORANGE MAN BAD


5 posted on 10/05/2025 12:41:16 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: MarlonRando
Liberals are just not funny. They are so motivated by hate it just comes off as negative. Not fun to watch.

It's not humor because it's one-sided.

6 posted on 10/05/2025 12:44:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Exactly.


7 posted on 10/05/2025 12:47:12 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MarlonRando

‘Liberals are just not funny. They are so motivated by hate it just comes off as negative. Not fun to watch.’

At all.


8 posted on 10/05/2025 12:47:34 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Disappointed Saturday Night Live fans...

The show has fans?

9 posted on 10/05/2025 12:48:46 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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I don’t even have to watch the skit to know it was unfunny.

You can’t be both woke and funny - it’s just not possible.

The funny comedians of the past knew how to make fun of themselves, and make fun of human nature in general.

As soon as you try to use humor to signal your own virtues and to mock those you hate and disagree with, the humor is gone. “Poof”. All that’s left is the hate, and hate is just not funny.


10 posted on 10/05/2025 12:49:13 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: MinorityRepublican

BOTH fans were disappointed?


11 posted on 10/05/2025 12:50:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: enumerated
The funny comedians of the past knew how to make fun of themselves, and make fun of human nature in general.

They were liberal but they were able to make fun of themselves.

Recently, they became leftists so comedy is now dead.

12 posted on 10/05/2025 12:50:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MarlonRando

Hatred is not very humorous.


13 posted on 10/05/2025 12:58:52 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Dave Chappelle did in a monologue, but was then ostracized.


14 posted on 10/05/2025 1:45:38 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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I imagine there is a huge market for a sketch comedy group to appear on alternative media. Something like SCTV, MadTV and Studio C, sprinkled with Robot Chicken.


15 posted on 10/05/2025 2:19:27 PM PDT by Salvavida
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I believe Bad Bunny hosted. You have four months to educate yourself.


16 posted on 10/05/2025 2:54:25 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Disappointed Saturday Night Live fans have blasted last night's show as unfunny, after the new season kicked off on a sour note.…-

Unfunny?!! It hasn’t been funny in 30 years!

17 posted on 10/05/2025 4:13:37 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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