One of the best President in the US in one of the worst show in television. What a shame.
7 Reviews
What a shame
illysen10 May 2021
Attempt to put Trump into the Whitehouse
recklessron11 November 2015
I've been watching SNL since I was a young kid - I loved the John Belushi, Dan Akryod, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman era and have been a fan ever since. There have been some great casts, some okay casts and some bad casts but through-out their entire run they have been a bastion of left wing, liberal, views until this episode. It clearly shows SNL has been taken over by right-wingers. Can you say 'sell-out'?
I expected they would have a great time ripping on Trump and that satire and irony would be used to create lots of laughs. I was wrong.
IMHO:
The Trump show would have the cast of the first decade or two rolling in their graves (at least all the dead ones). They were all anti-establishment, anti-rich, anti-bigots and anti-racists. This show made light of all those things.
Basically its point was to minimize the outrage that its viewers should rightly feel about Trump's views and convince them that Trump really isn't a bad guy. He's not a clown, or a buffoon, he's a genuine good guy.
It was designed to make Trump look good in order to garner support for his run for President from an audience who should be 100% against him. He is against everything the show stood for and the core values of its regular viewers.
Plus... it wasn't funny.
I expected they would have a great time ripping on Trump and that satire and irony would be used to create lots of laughs. I was wrong.
IMHO:
The Trump show would have the cast of the first decade or two rolling in their graves (at least all the dead ones). They were all anti-establishment, anti-rich, anti-bigots and anti-racists. This show made light of all those things.
Basically its point was to minimize the outrage that its viewers should rightly feel about Trump's views and convince them that Trump really isn't a bad guy. He's not a clown, or a buffoon, he's a genuine good guy.
It was designed to make Trump look good in order to garner support for his run for President from an audience who should be 100% against him. He is against everything the show stood for and the core values of its regular viewers.
Plus... it wasn't funny.
I didn't laugh once
MrGroovilicious26 December 2015
I'm not even going to mention the fact I'm a Mexican American or the fact that isn't even the reason I hate him in this review. I don't use bias.
Not a single sketch performed made me laugh. Even the horrible episodes of SNL have made me laugh at least once. For the first time in history, an SNL episode did not make me laugh once. In fact, for the first time in history, I turned off an episode of SNL due to its incredibly poor quality.
The spiteful tweet sketch just made me pity the SNL cast. They cast claim hundreds of hilarious jokes making fun of trump were cut from the episode which will air later, due to Trump intimidating them with the added security during the episode. That tells me Trump is just rude and treats his colleagues like crap, which led to the overall decimation of this episode's quality.
Many of the sketches that made the episode were just offensive, making race related jokes against certain cast members.
The entire episode is nothing but propaganda promoting Trump. The very first sketch which makes a comedy out of the Democratic debate did not in any way remind me of any of the notable qualities in the Democratic candidates, so the jokes were lost in Trump's warped interpretation. But it is in the context of making it seem like other candidates are inferior. Than there is the sketch showing "2 years in the future" of Trump's run showing how pleased everyone is. Mexico actually contributes a 20 billion dollar donation to the wall. Then Trump kills the entire sketch's lifeline when he gets up in the middle of the sketch and actually starts a serious monologue about how his run will be if he's voted for. Oh Trump, that's totally just for the sake of comedy... right. No other political gain.
He acts as if he's taking a joke when he's in this, when all of the jokes revolve around him making fun of other people. None of the jokes featured here are actually about anyone making fun of Trump. Never once, even at the beginning with two cast members dressed up as the parasite, do the jokes make a clever remark of any sort revolving around Trump. All of the jokes do, however, revolve around Trump making fun of another culture or person. Never does he take the blow as the butt of the joke, his involvement is always as the forefront mechanism launching it.
(And for the record, I was raised in the deep south and am offended by this guy. This should tell you something.)
Not a single sketch performed made me laugh. Even the horrible episodes of SNL have made me laugh at least once. For the first time in history, an SNL episode did not make me laugh once. In fact, for the first time in history, I turned off an episode of SNL due to its incredibly poor quality.
The spiteful tweet sketch just made me pity the SNL cast. They cast claim hundreds of hilarious jokes making fun of trump were cut from the episode which will air later, due to Trump intimidating them with the added security during the episode. That tells me Trump is just rude and treats his colleagues like crap, which led to the overall decimation of this episode's quality.
Many of the sketches that made the episode were just offensive, making race related jokes against certain cast members.
The entire episode is nothing but propaganda promoting Trump. The very first sketch which makes a comedy out of the Democratic debate did not in any way remind me of any of the notable qualities in the Democratic candidates, so the jokes were lost in Trump's warped interpretation. But it is in the context of making it seem like other candidates are inferior. Than there is the sketch showing "2 years in the future" of Trump's run showing how pleased everyone is. Mexico actually contributes a 20 billion dollar donation to the wall. Then Trump kills the entire sketch's lifeline when he gets up in the middle of the sketch and actually starts a serious monologue about how his run will be if he's voted for. Oh Trump, that's totally just for the sake of comedy... right. No other political gain.
He acts as if he's taking a joke when he's in this, when all of the jokes revolve around him making fun of other people. None of the jokes featured here are actually about anyone making fun of Trump. Never once, even at the beginning with two cast members dressed up as the parasite, do the jokes make a clever remark of any sort revolving around Trump. All of the jokes do, however, revolve around Trump making fun of another culture or person. Never does he take the blow as the butt of the joke, his involvement is always as the forefront mechanism launching it.
(And for the record, I was raised in the deep south and am offended by this guy. This should tell you something.)
This Is Bad
towersinthewindow15 October 2020
Awful awful awful
barrettw-8454331 January 2021
One of the worst episodes of SNL, but that isn't complete garbage
dmanmotherf31 July 2019
One of the worse episodes but still better than 4402 with Awkwafina. I didn't reflect it in the rating but way more interesting due to him becoming president even though I'm far from a supporter personally. Donald Trump, quite frankly, is a terrible actor, which is not surprising, and the skits felt like they were forced to be dumbed doubt and slightly manipulated to his liking, which is common knowledge that he request that for things like this. Still worth seeing since he's the 45th President now.
Showed S.N.L. isn't just another 100% liberal show and they wouldn't be bullied by protesters.
jovic229 November 2015
I have enjoyed this show since it came out 41 years ago. However, every political season it seems to not only favor the Democratic Party but in some cases they have in my view, substantially helped sway people's opinions of candidates. The fact that they had Trymp host showed they are actually a bit flexible. Plus the way they didn't let protesters tell them who to have as a host showed some real grit on their part. Some of the sketches were excellent and some were just okay, which is typical of the show. I would have given the episode a 7, but since the only other review was just a closed minded review that gave the episode an unfair 1 star, I felt I had to give it an extra couple to compensate for that. No episode deserves a 1 star. Like Trump or not...the cast and writers worked hard and deserve a better review. The review isn't on Trump, it's on the show. I can only guess the previous reviewer would have given an episode with President Obama a solid 10 stars regardless of the actual quality of the sketches. If you can't be objective you probably should leave reviews.
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