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Throughout the coronavirus scare, Saturday Night Live repeatedly ducked the opportunity to ridicule mandates that, in the name of countering coronavirus, proliferated in America and across the world. Instead, skits on the NBC TV comedy show repeatedly praised the authoritarian measures and scorned people who opposed those measures or who challenged the supporting “science” propounded by government and big money media “experts” that has proven to have been wrong across the board.
Saturday Night Live had a reputation as a comedy show willing to make jokes challenging those holding political power. In years preceding the coronavirus scare, the show had developed a much heavier bias in favor of the liberal and Democratic end of American politics. Yet, it still took shots at politicians and views across the political spectrum.
When the exercise of power went into overdrive with the imposing of draconian measures including stay at home orders, mask and “vaccine” mandates, vaccine passport requirements, and the forced closing of stores, offices, churches, schools, sports venues, and other places people could interact in person, the jokes challenging such exercises of authority did not materialize. Instead of challenging team tyranny, Saturday Night Live joined in promoting it. This choice was particularly interesting because it deprived the show of much good material for skits. Making the show funny was placed on the back burner.
People watching Saturday Night Live throughout the coronavirus scare were treated over and over to sycophantic praising of coronavirus police state actions and the echo chamber of pseudoscientific justifications offered in its support. For people who saw through the coronavirus fearmongering and associated power grabs, Saturday Night Live’s propping up of tyrannical reordering of human behavior turned the show into an annoying weekly display of skits advancing authoritarian propaganda. Entertainment would need to be found elsewhere.
One example of this bleak situation with Saturday Night Live came in an opening skit of the April 25, 2020 episode of the show relatively early in the coronavirus scare. The opening skit concluded with actor Brad Pitt breaking character to praise top coronavirus scare and coronavirus crackdown culprit Anthony Fauci. This followed the earlier portion of the skit in which Pitt had depicted Fauci, all the while failing to ridicule Fauci even mildly in regard to Fauci’s coronavirus fearmongering and mandates support. Fauci was the face of a huge expansion of power in America at the expense of freedom and of an all-out effort to instill enough fear in the American people to ensure that power expansion could proceed. But, instead of challenging Fauci with humor, Pitt in his skit portrayed Fauci as a voice of reason. Watch the episode’s opening skit here:
Woody Harrelson, Saturday Night Live, and Ridiculing Coronavirus Tyranny
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