{"id":1233819,"date":"2022-01-23T19:37:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233819"},"modified":"2022-01-23T19:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:38:10","slug":"snl-tiptoes-around-uyghur-genocide-jokes-about-china-taunting-world-before-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snl-tiptoes-around-uyghur-genocide-jokes-about-china-taunting-world-before-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;SNL&#039; Tiptoes Around Uyghur Genocide, Jokes About China Taunting World Before Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsnl-tiptoes-around-uyghur-genocide-jokes-about-china-taunting-world-before-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233819&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/snl-china-olympics-bowen-yang-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>NBC\u2019s late-night comedy show&nbsp;<i>Saturday Night Live<\/i>&nbsp;poked a bit of fun at the coming Beijing Olympics this week, but the \u201cWeekend Update\u201d segment but didn\u2019t have the spine to go all the way, offering only a tepid rebuke to China for its ongoing concentration camps and genocide against Uyghur Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, cast member Bowen Yang performed his fifth outing as \u201cChinese trade minister and games organizer Chen Biao,\u201d&nbsp;hitting the \u201cWeekend Update\u201d desk with host Michael Che for some jokes about the coming Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>After a bit of banter, Che asked \u201cMinister Biao\u201d how he feels about NBC boycotting the games by not sending any correspondents to report live in Beijing. \u201cBaio\u201d joked that NBC is going to report on the games from studios in Connecticut. \u201cYou know what else shoots in Connecticut? <i>Maury<\/i>,\u201d he replied deadpan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood luck commentating over cries of: \u2018You are NOT the father!&#8217;\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>After a few jokes about China\u2019s plans to institute \u201cCOVID safety,\u201d Che brought up the fact that many westerners are bringing burner phones to thwart China\u2019s surveillance state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister Biao\u201d asked if this is <i>The Wire<\/i>, adding, \u201cMust be season two, because you\u2019re white and no one cares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Che got to something a bit more serious, saying, \u201cWell, the bigger story is that several countries, including the U.S., are planning diplomatic boycotts over China\u2019s human rights violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister Biao\u201d replied, saying, \u201cHuman rights? We don\u2019t have that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was the end of any serious pokes at the communist nation. Note that <i>SNL<\/i> did not have the courage to remark on the genocide China is perpetrating against its Uyghurs and other minority populations. There were no jokes about the forced labor camps where China manufactures much of the sportswear sold to westerners, and it didn\u2019t bring up the oppression of Christians in China, nor the quashing of the democracy movements in Hong Kong or Tibet. Yang\u2019s recurring character \u201cChen Biao\u201d is fictional, failing to satirize any real-world Chinese officials.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, nothing that could potentially threaten NBC\u2019s gig providing sports commentary from Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC\u2019s late-night comedy show\u00a0Saturday Night Live\u00a0poked a bit of fun at the coming Beijing Olympics this week, but the \u201cWeekend Update\u201d segment but didn\u2019t have the spine to go all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}