“I could have easily been Ahmaud Arbery or a George Floyd.”
Saturday Night Live alum Jay Pharoah said in an Instagram post Friday that he was recently stopped by LAPD officers with guns drawn and cuffed while one of them put a knee to his neck.
Pharoah revealed the encounter along with security video of the incident, showing four officers stopping the comedian and ordering him to the ground with guns drawn.
“As he’s looking at me I’m thinking that he’s making a mistake,” Pharoah said in the post. “I’m looking at him, and I’m looking past me because I’m like, whoever they’re about to get, it’s about to get terrible. No, he was coming to get me.” Continue reading.
Colin Jost couldn’t believe Trump attacked Romney at a National Prayer Breakfast for citing his religion for his impeachment trial decision.
“Saturday Night Live’s” spoof news show “Weekend Update” often mocks President Donald Trump, but Saturday’s episode could have marked a record number of especially hard-hitting jabs.
Hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che slammed Trump for mocking religion at the National Prayer Breakfast, for the president’s weird apparent makeup line in a photograph, and for calling out California for making the entire state a “stanktuary” (which Jost pronounced as “skantuary”), apparently meaning to say a “sanctuary state.”
As for the orangish line around Trump’s face in a recent photo, Jost said it was “like the day at the nursing home when they let the residents put their own makeup on.” Continue reading.
He shows greater disdain for the show than he does for foreign dictators.
Credit: SNL, Youtube screengrab
The end of summer and arrival of fall not only means cooler temperatures and shorter days; it also means the return of NBC’s long-running “Saturday Night Live,” which launched its 44th season on September 29. For President Donald Trump, a new “SNL” season brings with it the fear of being lampooned by Alec Baldwin—and sure enough, “SNL’s” October 13 show opened with a skit poking fun at Trump’s recent meeting with rapper Kanye West (played by Chris Redd). Baldwin’s impression of Trump has been wildly popular, but the president is not a fan. And Trump is the first president in “SNL’s” 43-year history who has been deeply upset by a humorous impression of him.
“SNL’s” lampooning of presidents of the United States is a time-honored tradition going back to 1975, when Chevy Chase (who was part of the show’s original cast along with comic giants like John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner) unveiled his impression of President Gerald R. Ford. Chase was unmerciful, portraying Ford as an accident-prone klutz who would leave the Oval Office in shambles. But Ford didn’t react negatively. He even appeared with Chase at a White House dinner in 1976, declaring, “I’m Gerald Ford, and you’re not” (a play on Chase’s famous line, “I’m Chevy Chase, and you’re not”).
Actually, Ford wasn’t a klutz. He was an avid tennis player who had been a college football star, but showing that he could take a joke and appearing with Chase in public was a smart public relations move.
The following article by Avi Selk was posted on the Washington Post website January 28, 2018:
Comedian Will Ferrell returned to SNL on Jan. 27 to portray the former president, who has seen higher approval ratings since he left office. (Patrick Martin/The Washington Post)
President Trump’s time in office has been good for George W. Bush. The latter’s ratings were about as dismal as Trump’s current ones when he left the White House in 2009, but they have skyrocketed lately as people compare Bush with his historically unpopular Republican successor.
“I could have easily been Ahmaud Arbery or a George Floyd.”
Colin Jost couldn’t believe Trump attacked Romney at a National Prayer Breakfast for citing his religion for his impeachment trial decision.