More Jokes, Less Woke: Twitter Resurrects Amazingly Funny SNL Sketch For Independence Day

Posted • July 5, 2024: We mock Saturday Night Live (SNL) quite a bit here at Twitchy and why wouldn't we? The hilarious show that many of us grew up with through the late 70s, 80s, and 90s has become a woke mess in recent years. It's almost as if everyone associated with the show now saw that failed Aaron Sorkin program Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and said, 'YES. We should be more like THAT.' If any one scene captures how much SNL has gone down the woke black hole, it might be this super cringe cold open after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-_ZDrypec

COMEDY, ladies and gentlemen! We're still rolling our eyes at that monument to cringe eight years later. But no matter how much we set our sights on SNL, we want to be fair because we are not the woke left. Not often, but every once in a while, SNL can still throw out an all-time classic sketch of pure hilarity. One of those aired this past October. Yesterday, to celebrate Independence Day, Twitter appropriately resurrected it. (…)

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