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A whopping 91% of jokes delivered on “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update section this season focused conservatives, while 82% of characters during the present’s chilly opens mocked President Donald Trump or fellow Republicans, according to a new analysis by Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.
The media watchdog examined SNL’s first 19 reveals this season by May 9 and discovered a one-way political firing squad.
A whopping 91% of jokes delivered on “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update section this season focused conservatives, while 82% of characters during the present’s chilly opens mocked President Donald Trump or fellow Republicans, according to a new analysis by Media Research Center’s NewsBusters. Lloyd Bishop/NBC
Of the 226 political jokes delivered by Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che, 205 focused conservatives, only 18 slammed Dems and other liberals, and three have been non-partisan.
During chilly opens, actors playing Republicans and conservatives appeared 49 instances, lefty characters only 10 instances, and one nonpartisan character was featured.
The analysis — completely offered to The Post — didn’t embody the finale of SNL’s 51st season, which airs tonight.
Dumping on Trump — who hosted the present twice before being elected president — was the major focus this 12 months for NBC’s long-running, live-sketch comedy. And rankings are up due to the Trump bump.
The president accounted for 101 – or practically half – of Weekend Update jokes, NewsBusters discovered.
“President Trump dismissed weapons fire between the US and Iran as a ‘love tap,’” Che joked during the May 9 section. “He also called gas prices gentle sodomy.”
And heading into the finale, Trump’s character — sometimes performed by James Austin Johnson — had already made a dozen appearances this season during chilly opens.
During its April 4 broadcast, SNL notoriously mused about the risk of Trump being assassinated.
Che sickly crowbarred the “joke” right into a bit about the president attending a performance at the just lately renamed Trump Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
During chilly opens, actors playing Republicans and conservatives appeared 49 instances, lefty characters only 10 instances, and one nonpartisan character was featured. NBC / SNL
“President Trump attended the opening night of ‘Chicago’ at the Kennedy Center, and I think that’s cool that the president is going to the theater. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?” said Che, referring to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Che then flashed a smile as the viewers responded with an over-the-top guffaw.
“‘Saturday Night Live’ hasn’t been a good television show since President Trump hosted it” in 2015, White House spokesman Davis Ingle fired again two days later.
Trump confronted two assassination makes an attempt during the 2024 campaign and survived another try April 25 – three weeks after Che’s bit – during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s character completed second in cold-open appearances with 9, adopted by ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s characters, with 4 each.
The president accounted for 101 – or practically half – of Weekend Update jokes, NewsBusters discovered.
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was second behind Trump as the goal of Weekend Update jokes, receiving 14. He was adopted by Noem (12), conservative pundit Tucker Carlson (11) and Long Island’s mendacity ex-Rep. George Santos (10).
In comparability, socialist NYC Mayor Mamdani — whose off-the wall socialist schemes might present years of comedian materials — has thus far been focused just as soon as by Weekend Update.
And his character has only been featured in a single cold-open section: when comic Ramy Youssef performed Mamdani in a November sketch about a NYC mayoral debate.
“I know some of you out there are scared about the idea of a young Muslim socialist mayor, so allow me to put you at ease by smiling after every answer in a way that physically hurts my face,” said Youssef, who drew laughs by mocking Hizzoner’s signature grin.
Mamdani posted clips and video of himself laughing with Youssef about the uncanny resemblance on a FaceTime name while the comedian was still in costume.
“Michael Jordan famously said, ‘Republicans buy sneakers, too.’ Entertainment companies once understood that alienating half the country was probably not a great business model,” said David Bozell, president of the Media Research Center.
“Nobody is asking SNL to become conservative, but when every political punchline is nothing more than Trump Derangement Syndrome all the time, SNL risks turning itself into a caricature of its own political obsessions.”
The group’s findings exhibiting late evening tv is more lefty than ever shouldn’t be a shock.
A whopping 94% of the jokes delivered by late-night hosts during the first week of Operation Eric Fury slammed the United States and its allies instead of Iran and other adversaries, according to data NewsBusters completely shared with The Post in March.
And a staggering 92% of jokes made by Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and the Daily Show universe focused the proper in 2025, and liberal company outnumbered conservative ones virtually 100 to 1, according to data the group shared with The Post in December.
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