Twitter users fired back at “Saturday Night Live” after the show aired a skit on Saturday poking fun at podcast host Joe Rogan and Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
The skit, titled “Cruz Street,” featured cast members Aidy Bryant as Cruz, Pete Davidson as Rogan, and Kyle Mooney as the “Sesame Street” character Big Bird. The cast members mocked Cruz’s recent response to Big Bird’s COVID-19 vaccine tweet and Rogan using the drug ivermectin in treating the virus. (RELATED: Sanjay Gupta Left Nearly Speechless As Joe Rogan Explains Why Some Parents Do Not Want To Vaccinate Their Kids)
WATCH:
Joe Rogan stopped by Cruz Street… pic.twitter.com/YAaadm2reH
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) November 14, 2021
“I used to host ‘Fear Factor’ and now doctors fear me,” Davidson, playing as Rogan, says as he enters the skit. When Mooney, paying Big Bird, asks for his help, Davidson gives him some zinc and some “horse medicine.” (RELATED: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Spoofs Mike Lindell)
“But why would a bird take horse medicine?” Mooney asks.
“I’m a human and I took horse medicine,” Davidson responds.
As the skit makes the rounds on Twitter, users are roasting SNL.
“There were a hundred ways to do this sketch and have it be funny,” said stand-up comic Tim Dillon. “The show is now just lazy mediocre hacks.”
There were a hundred ways to do this sketch and have it be funny. The show now is just lazy mediocre hacks. https://t.co/txIq8j9Qyr
— Tim Dillon (@TimJDillon) November 14, 2021
Other users soon followed suit, with one conservative commentator claiming that SNL “is the regime.”
SNL doesn’t mock the regime. It is the regime. So it’s not really funny anymore. https://t.co/Laus2wGYVc
— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) November 14, 2021
Regime approved comedy.
— Chris Tomlinson (@TomlinsonCJ) November 14, 2021
So many great Joe Biden and Kamala Harris moments in the last few weeks and SNL does it’s cold open on Ted Cruz and Marjorie Taylor Greene — with jokes only resistance twitter will get. (Which often is the entire intended audience)
What a waste.
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) November 14, 2021
Every time I think the comedic community has hit the bottom of the comedy barrel, they somehow find a new level of unfunniness https://t.co/ga7azYTqXy
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 14, 2021
The Federalist’s Emily Jashinsky also commented on the parody, saying that SNL is “a tool of corporate hacks.”
Earlier in the skit, SNL spoofed COVID-19 vaccine side effects and Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.