rant · moment 15 of 16
SNL Is Corporate Garbage That Steals Jokes, and Colin Jost's AIDS Bit
from Mike Recine · #142
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minTim tears into SNL as unfunny corporate propaganda (the De Niro-as-Mueller sketch, Jeff Bezos hero bits), accuses the writers of stealing sketches from indie creators, and does an extended bit claiming Colin Jost was a "bug chaser" who deliberately got HIV and now spreads it.
- 49:30SNL's not funny anymore, and Tim tried to give it the benefit of the doubt for a long time.
- 50:02Don't delude yourself into thinking SNL sketches are good — the Robert Mueller bit with De Niro was just stupid.
- 50:21SNL's audience consists of neoliberal corporate stooges making $800,000 a year who think they're the good guys.
- 50:43If you like subversive political commentary, SNL is painful to watch.
- 50:56SNL is a multi-billion dollar corporate entity but presents itself as the resistance.
- 51:18SNL probably can't be funny because they're not allowed to be — writers are disconnected from real life and ordinary work.
- 51:36Tim wrote a sketch about Girls with a character added who had a hard life, then SNL did essentially the same premise with a Bulgarian character.
- 52:21SNL writers make $4,000 a week and have catered lunches but still steal sketches from online sketch groups.
- 52:39Colin Jost was a bug chaser who spent years trying to get AIDS, eventually succeeded, and now gives it to people without telling them.
- 53:48Tim notes that Colin Jost seeding people with AIDS isn't even in the top 10 worst things about SNL.
Saturday Night LiveColin JostMegan McCainRobert MuellerJeff Bezos