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SNL’s Colin Jost Says Trump Hosting the Show Didn’t Humanize Him
SPIN ^ | May 15, 2017 | Winston-Cook Wilson

Posted on 05/21/2017 2:02:46 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

In a new feature on Saturday Night Live in The Hollywood Reporter, members of the cast and crew discussed what it’s been like dealing with Donald Trump’s ascent, triumph, and institutionalization. Towards the end of the piece, staffers finally addressed the elephant in the room when it comes to anyone from SNL speaking negatively about Trump: the fact that they let Trump, prior becoming the Republican nominee, host the show.

Instead of expressing guilt or regret about the choice, as former cast member Taran Killam did in a recent interview, where he said the choice to book Trump “felt like a move for ratings from both sides,” the SNL affiliates seem to believe that it was a logical and unproblematic move at the time. Here’s what Colin Jost had to say about the criticism levied at the show:


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: colinjost; hollywood; jost; jost2020; snl; trump
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To: jmaroneps37

Brace yourselves. Jost could be the 2020 Democratic nominee.


21 posted on 05/21/2017 3:08:04 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I think the last time I laughed or even saw SNL was the woman that asked,”What’s all this I hear about endangered feces???”
I sorta miss the cone heads but they run France now...


22 posted on 05/21/2017 3:33:11 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Was that before or after the SNL crew took their daily opioids?


23 posted on 05/21/2017 4:03:52 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Despite his money and status, Trump can comfortably relate to normal people, which would exclude the smug elitists of SNL.
THAT drives them crazy.


24 posted on 05/21/2017 4:14:24 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
....the fact that they let Trump, prior becoming the Republican nominee, host the show....

News flash: the cast and crew had NOTHING to do with Trump hosting.

25 posted on 05/21/2017 4:31:51 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

SNL HUMANIZED TRUMP!!!! LOL

26 posted on 05/21/2017 5:18:30 PM PDT by KavMan
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To: SpaceBar

I watched SNL when it had the original crew. I never liked Chevy Chase though.


27 posted on 05/21/2017 7:04:17 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: SpaceBar

I watched SNL when it had the original crew. I never liked Chevy Chase though.


28 posted on 05/21/2017 7:04:52 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BBell

As Robert Christgau said of Jim Morrison, he sounds like an a**hole.


29 posted on 05/21/2017 7:10:03 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: MUDDOG
Off topic I read the book "No One Here Gets Out Alive" and some other things about Jim Morrison and his success did turn him into an asshole.

Chevy Chase was just a spoiled rich kid who used his connections to get on SNL. Chevy Chase is an asshole and he really is not very funny. As in hollyweird it's who you know or who you blow.

30 posted on 05/21/2017 7:53:21 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: MUDDOG

I will give credit to Chevy Chase, he is a pretty good drummer.


31 posted on 05/21/2017 7:55:18 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BBell

I’m glad he’s got the drumming. His screen persona was not my cup of tea.


32 posted on 05/21/2017 8:46:38 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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