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There’s a well-understood comedy axiom that says if you have to explain why something is funny, then it isn’t, but NBC's Saturday Night Live fails to understand this because, in response to Donald Trump’s victory, the cast came together for a cringe-inducing performance where they pretended to support him in an attempt to stay off an enemies list.  Bowen Yang opened by making sure everyone knew it was not their actual position, “On Tuesday, Americans went to the polls and elected Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States,” while Ego Nwodim followed with, “To many people, including many people watching this show right now, the results were shocking and even horrifying.” Heidi Gardner subsquently lamented, “Donald Trump, who tried to forcibly overturn the results of the last election, was returned to office by an overwhelming majority,” as DNC speaker Kenan Thompson explained the whole bit, “This is the same Donald Trump who openly called for vengeance against his political enemies.”   SNL cast members share a post-election message pic.twitter.com/jTXqJCxpIL — Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) November 10, 2024   Yang then falsely added, “And now, thanks to the Supreme Court, there are no guardrails,” as Nwodim elaborated, “Nothing to protect the people who are brave enough to speak out against him.” In the “twist” everyone saw coming from a thousand miles away, Thompson declared, “That is why we at SNL would like to say to Donald Trump, we have been with you all along.” After more fake claims of support, Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost arrived, “And Mr. Trump, your honor, we know that you say things that are controversial sometimes, but really you're just speaking the truth, and I hate how the lamestream media, Michael Che, spins it to make you look foolish.” During the fall, 89 percent of Che and Jost's Trump-Harris jokes were about Trump. Back in the skit, Thompson began "So, if you're keeping some kind of list of your enemies then" as Marcello Hernandez finished, "We should not be on that list." Things got even weirder as the cast pretended to be a group of informants, with Yang declaring, “And if we find out someone here voted for Kamala, we will rat them out so fast.” Sarah Sherman then turned to “our three disgusting new cast members” as Thompson continued in the role of cult follower, “So real quick, from left to right, that's Jane Wickline, Ashley Padilla, and Emil Wakim. You can find their home addresses online, hail Trump.” Meanwhile, Hernandez sought to immunize himself, “But the rest of us, hail Trump, voted for you at least once” as Sherman introduced Trump actor James Austin Johnson, “And we're so excited to debut our new impression, hot, jacked Trump.” Wearing a muscle suit, Johnson proclaimed, “That's right. That’s right, it’s me: hot, jacked Trump. They finally got the body right. But from now on, we're going to do very flattering portrayal of Trump because he's, frankly, my hero, and he's going to make a great president and eventually king. We love you, buddy.” The cast then ruined any semblance of the joke again as they made it clear, again, they didn’t mean any of it. Yang declared, “In summary, all of us at SNL are so excited for Trump 2.0, which is also what I blew on a breathalyzer Wednesday morning.” Nowdim added, “We can't wait to see what you do with the country this time. I keep waking up in the middle of the night screaming. With joy, of course.” Thompson then introduced Dana Carvey in the role of Elon Musk, “And worst-case scenario, meaning scenario, if our planet falls apart, we can all go to Mars with the other man we love and trust, Elon Musk.” Carvey explained that “I run the country now and America’s going to be like one of my rockets, you know, they’re super cool, and super fun, but there's a slight chance it could blow up and everyone dies. I’m dark MAGA, see you in the White House, U-S-A, U-S-A.” SNL can't be too concerned about an authoritarian enemies list if they went on TV and joked about it, even if they ruined the joke by constantly explaining it. Here is a transcript for November 9 show: NBC Saturday Night Live 11/9/2024 11:29 PM ET BOWEN YANG: On Tuesday, Americans went to the polls and elected Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States. EGO NWODIM: To many people, including many people watching this show right now, the results were shocking and even horrifying. HEIDI GARDNER: Donald Trump, who tried to forcibly overturn the results of the last election, was returned to office by an overwhelming majority. KENAN THOMPSON: This is the same Donald Trump who openly called for vengeance against his political enemies. YANG: And now, thanks to the Supreme Court, there are no guardrails. NWODIM: Nothing to protect the people who are brave enough to speak out against him. THOMPSON: That is why we at SNL would like to say to Donald Trump, we have been with you all along. YANG: We have never wavered in our support of you, even when others doubted you. SARAH SHERMAN: Every single person on this stage believed in you. MARCELLO HERNANDEZ: Every single person on this stage voted for you. NWODIM: Because we see ourselves in you. We look at you and think, that's me. SHERMAN: That's the man I want my future children to look up to. COLIN JOST: And Mr. Trump, your honor, we know that you say things that are controversial sometimes, but really you're just speaking the truth and I hate how the lamestream media, Michael Che, spins it to make you look foolish. THOMPSON: So, if you're keeping some kind of list of your enemies then -- HERNANDEZ: We should not be on that list. JOST: And it's C-H-E, Che. YANG: And if we find out someone here voted for Kamala, we will rat them out so fast. SHERMAN: Like our three disgusting new cast members. THOMPSON: So real quick, from left to right, that's Jane Wickline, Ashley Padilla, and Emil Wakim. You can find their home addresses online, hail Trump. HERNANDEZ: But the rest of us, hail Trump, voted for you at least once. GARDNER: I voted for you 50 times in Pennsylvania. NOWDIM: 92 percent of black women voted for Kamala, but I was one of the proud 8 percent. For me, it's brother Donald ex-Trump all the way. SHERMAN: And we're so excited to debut our new impression, hot, jacked Trump. JAMES AUSTIN JOHNSON [AS DONALD TRUMP]: That's right. That’s right, it’s me: hot, jacked Trump. They finally got the body right. But from now on, we're going to do very flattering portrayal of Trump because he's, frankly, my hero, and he's going to make a great president and eventually king. We love you, buddy. YANG: In summary, all of us at SNL are so excited for Trump 2.0, which is also what I blew on a breathalyzer Wednesday morning. NWODIM: We can't wait to see what you do with the country this time. I keep waking up in the middle of the night screaming. With joy, of course. SHERMAN: My only regret is that we didn't get to do another January 6th, because I was ready. JOST: Me, too. THOMPSON: And worst-case scenario, meaning scenario, if our planet falls apart, we can all go to Mars with the other man we love and trust, Elon Musk. DANA CARVEY [AS ELON MUSK]: Alright. Check it out, dark MAGA. Yeah, but seriously, I run the country now and America’s going to be like one of my rockets, you know, they’re super cool, and super fun, but there's a slight chance it could blow up and everyone dies. I’m dark MAGA, see you in the White House, U-S-A, U-S-A. HERNANDEZ: And to all young men who helped elect Trump and Elon, we know that you felt unseen these past four years. YANG: So, we say to you, young men, there is no need to feel down. THOMPSON: Young men, pick yourself off the ground. NWODIM: Young men, time to put on your crown. ALL [‘YMCA’ TUNE]: You don't need to be unhappy.

Still insisting that the bad economy and inflation were not what drove Americans to overwhelmingly elect Donald Trump president again (instead claiming it was all sexism and racism), Sunny Hostin, the staunchly racist co-host of ABC’s The View urged people to not attend holiday gatherings with family members who supported Trump. She called it a “moral issue.” Fake Republican Ana Navarro said that although her and husband Al Cardenas voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, he refused to let politics drive him away from seeing is grandkids. “Whatever your reason is, I would never let my politics be the reason I don't show up to see my family, because they won't always be there,” agreed pretend independent Sara Haines. Hostin held the more extremist position. “I really do feel that this candidate, you know, President-elect Trump is a different type of candidate,” she said. “From the things he said and the things he's done and the things he will do, it's more of a moral issue for me and I think it's more of a moral issue for other people.” She tried to suggest Democrats did not claim former President George W. Bush was “deeply flawed in morality” like they do Trump. She was left stammering when she was immediately shot down by Haines and anti-Trumper Alyssa Farah Griffin: HOSTIN: We're just -- you know, I would say it was different when, let's say, Bush got elected. You may not have agreed with his policies but you didn't feel like he was a deeply flawed person, deeply flawed by character, deeply flawed in morality. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think a lot of Dems called him deeply flawed and dehumanized him. HAINES: I think people did at the time. HOSTIN: But – but its – but its – But you got to admit they're very different figures.     “If it meant not seeing the children? If it meant not seeing the children?” Navarro also pushed back on the notion of cutting off family. Hostin did get backup from moderator Whoopi Goldberg, who suggested Trump-voting family members who just gay-bash children while around the table: GOLDBERG: I appreciate the voters, but I will say somebody who tells me that my child is wrong because of how he or she feels, that tells me that they shouldn't be allowed to be who they are with my permission, I have to question it. I don't want to put my kid in that position. HOSTIN: Exactly. GOLDBERG: I don't want to put my gay child in a position where she has to sit with someone who doesn't understand her and feels like it's okay to just blurt all that out. That's just me. She also seemingly spread that notion to racially “mixed families.” “You can have dinner at another point but it might not be the time to gather because you know there's going to be some tension,” she argued. In an additional, truly out of touch moment, Goldberg asserted that she too was a member of the working-class because she went to work on The View four days a week. “"I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here."   Talk about out of touch. Multi-millionaire Whoopi Goldberg claims to be part of the working-class because she has a job on The View: "I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here." pic.twitter.com/g98M4BCFf4 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 12, 2024   How many working-class EGOT winners do you know? According to Parade magazine, Goldberg’s net worth is estimated to be $60 million and her talk-show contrast as estimated to be $6 million in 2016. Goldberg also owns her own brand of prosecco wine. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View November 12, 2024 11:23:08 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I'm sorry. When you have one candidate who has been running for 12 years who lies and changes things – I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here. [Laughter] Okay? [Applause] So. I'm a working person, you know. And my kid has to feed her family, you know, and my great granddaughter has to be fed by her family. I know it's hard out there, but I also know that there are a lot of things that we just said, ‘nope, I'm just going to go this way.’ And a lot of that is also what happened. I love what she [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)] did, yay, you know, we talk to people all the time who say this is what's bothering me. But the thing that's bothering everybody should not be the thing that puts 85 percent of other people in danger. (…) 11:31:55 a.m. Eastern SARA HAINES: Whatever your reason is, I would never let my politics be the reason I don't show up to see my family, because they won't always be there. SUNNY HOSTIN: I'm going to disagree! I completely understand her point, because I really do feel that this candidate, you know, President-elect Trump is a different type of candidate. From the things he said and the things he's done and the things he will do, it's more of a moral issue for me and I think it's more of a moral issue for other people. We're just -- you know, I would say it was different when, let's say, Bush got elected. You may not have agreed with his policies but you didn't feel like he was a deeply flawed person, deeply flawed by character, deeply flawed in morality. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I think a lot of Dems called him deeply flawed and dehumanized him. HAINES: I think people did at the time. HOSTIN: But – but its – but its – But you got to admit they're very different figures. I mean, you know, you [points to Farah Griffin] along with Milley and along with John Kelly warned us about how deeply flawed he was as a candidate. And so, I think when people feel that someone voted not only against their families but against them and against people that they loved, I think it's okay to take a beat. FARAH GRIFFIN: I don’t have to like him to respect the voters. ANA NAVARRO: If it meant not seeing the children? If it meant not seeing the children? GOLDBERG: I appreciate the voters, but I will say somebody who tells me that my child is wrong because of how he or she feels, that tells me that they shouldn't be allowed to be who they are with my permission, I have to question it. I don't want to put my kid in that position. HOSTIN: Exactly. GOLDBERG: I don't want to put my gay child in a position where she has to sit with someone who doesn't understand her and feels like it's okay to just blurt all that out. That's just me. [Applause] But I feel like -- with mixed families, with mixed families, I feel the same way. HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG: There are certain things where you don't have to put your family in the middle of it. You can have dinner at another point but it might not be the time to gather because you know there's going to be some tension. (…)

Liberals were fragile before Trump’s win, and they’re even more fragile now. So fragile, in fact, that some Christians are asking Trump supporters to temper their celebrations in order to spare the left’s feelings. “Christians, Whether your candidate wins or loses, there will still be hurting people who need you to give them hope and be a sober and thoughtful advocate for them. Don’t let the outcome defeat you or compel you to pretend the battle is won. Avoid bitterness and triumphalism,” political strategist Justin Giboney wrote in a post on X. While Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” agrees that we should avoid bitterness or pretending that the spiritual battle has been won, she thinks this messaging is attempting to make voters feel guilty “for being happy and rejoicing.” And Giboney wasn’t the only one trying to steer Christians from celebration. “Presidential election results. Having delivered us from one evil, God now tests us with another. ‘The Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.’ Deuteronomy 13:3,” Pastor John Piper wrote in a post on X. “I don’t think these cryptic messages are all that helpful, and he wrote an article back in 2020 which he recently reposted arguing that yes, abortion is evil, but Trump’s personality is equally as evil and is also a curse to our nation,” Stuckey explains. “Pastor John, they are not the same thing.” “The other person’s policies, which affect our children, our grandchildren, our neighbors, the most vulnerable among us, were far more wicked and disorderly,” she continues. “I think some Christians think that moral relativism is courage, and it’s not. It’s actually a form of confusion and cowardice.” “Certainly, I don’t think that John Piper is a coward, but I do think that his interpretations of the election in this current political moment is lacking wisdom,” she adds. Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.