I grew up in the GWB administration (so like most sensible people this whole portrayal of Trump as an aberration is jarring if you remember like the top five worst parts of those eight years), and it was always weird watching SNL compared to the Colbert Report or the Daily Show. SNL just didn't have a point to it, it was just on and they had to fill 90 minutes with whatever was in the news and commercial parodies and game shows. The Crossfire interview with Jon Stewart indicated very clearly that the Comedy Central shows actually had an opinion about both political institutions and the kind of media people that get mad at Michelle Wolf.
I grew up in the GWB administration (so like most sensible people this whole portrayal of Trump as an aberration is jarring if you remember like the top five worst parts of those eight years), and it was always weird watching SNL compared to the Colbert Report or the Daily Show. SNL just didn't have a point to it, it was just on and they had to fill 90 minutes with whatever was in the news and commercial parodies and game shows. The Crossfire interview with Jon Stewart indicated very clearly that the Comedy Central shows actually had an opinion about both political institutions and the kind of media people that get mad at Michelle Wolf.