{"id":1704974,"date":"2022-10-21T03:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704974"},"modified":"2022-10-21T03:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:19:32","slug":"jokes-on-you-looks-like-the-biden-administration-wrote-snls-unfunny-covid-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jokes-on-you-looks-like-the-biden-administration-wrote-snls-unfunny-covid-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Joke\u2019s On You! Looks Like The Biden Administration Wrote \u2018SNL\u2019s\u2019 Unfunny Covid Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fjokes-on-you-looks-like-the-biden-administration-wrote-snls-unfunny-covid-comedy%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=1704974&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--><p>It turns out the Federal Election Commission\u2019s rules on disclosing advertisers in political ads don\u2019t apply to all partisan entities. <\/p>\n<p>According to Judicial Watch, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newspunch.com\/bidens-hhs-and-cdc-paid-screen-writers-and-comedians-to-mock-the-unvaccinated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">enlisted<\/a>\u00a0and paid screenwriters, production companies, comedians, TikTok influencers, Joe Rogan guests, and church leaders to promote its Covid shot propaganda to the public. Yet nowhere have we seen \u201cpaid for by the HHS and CDC\u201d on the sponsored ads the government used to bombard Americans over the last couple of years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration made a plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-v-HHS-COVID-Community-Corps-September-2021-02315.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recruit<\/a> \u201call media companies and show producers\u201d to do its bidding, which <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/attacked-from-all-sides-but-still?utm_source=post-email-title&#038;publication_id=484195&#038;post_id=77839048&#038;isFreemail=true&#038;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">would include NBC<\/a>. NBC\u2019s \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d (\u201cSNL\u201d) didn\u2019t even need \u201cpaid for by\u201d Disclaimers for people to pick up on its vaccine propaganda, however. The studio\u2019s pandemic \u201ccomedy\u201d sketches felt far more like CDC and Big Pharma ads than jokes. The Federalist reached out to NBC to ask if SNL Studios\u2019 executives, producers, writers, or comedians were involved in the CDC and HHS\u2019s coordinated effort to push the Covid jab, and although the studio did not respond, it\u2019s hard to believe SNL wasn\u2019t involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Mocking the Unvaxxed<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In October 2021, rapper and filmmaker Ice Cube\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ice-cube-oh-hell-no-producers-vaccine-mandate-1250408\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">walked away<\/a>\u00a0from over $9 million after producers of the upcoming film \u201cOh Hell No\u201d demanded he get the Covid jab. \u201cSNL\u201d did a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Lmnx7_9gxw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sketch<\/a>\u00a0featuring cast member Kenan Thompson as an ignorant and socially unaware Ice Cube, and at the end, Thompson\u2019s character said he isn\u2019t getting the jab because he\u2019s \u201cscared of needles.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Never mind legitimate concerns about vaccine efficacy (which tanked) or injuries, such as menstrual cycle\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/28\/covid-tyrants-told-women-its-just-your-period-honey-millions-of-jabs-later-they-admit-it-wasnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abnormalities<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/09\/cdc-admits-post-vaccine-myocarditis-concerns-that-were-labeled-covid-misinformation-are-legit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">myocarditis<\/a>, \u201cSNL\u201d made an example of Ice Cube, as if his reasons for turning down the Covid shot must be stupid and childish. <\/p>\n<p>The show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CU-WdnXJabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">did the same thing<\/a> to Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who famously refused the shot despite discriminatory pressure tactics from the NFL to force him into compliance. The sketch joked that Rodgers\u2019 refusal was predicated by his \u201cScrew you, science. I know Joe Rogan\u201d attitude. \u201cSNL\u201d also suggested Rodgers\u2019 natural immunity was void, implied he was risking the lives of his teammates, and said his fear the vaccine could affect his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/11\/05\/quarterback-aaron-rodgers-covid-19-vaccine-fertility-myth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fertility<\/a>\u00a0was \u201cinsane.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Making the Jab Cool<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Another strategy \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d used to push the vaccine was making the jab seem desirable and cool. In one\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B5rXK8HCL1Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cold open<\/a>\u00a0Kate McKinnon played Anthony Fauci on a fake game show called \u201cSo You Think You Can Get the Vaccine.\u201d The February 2021 sketch featured different people being turned away from getting the shot because their young age or lack of comorbidities disqualified them during the initial stages of the vaccine rollout. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSNL\u201d was pretty frank about its intentions behind the sketch \u2014 and they weren\u2019t to be funny. McKinnon stated: \u201cGetting the vaccine shouldn\u2019t be competition, but Americans will only want to get it if it means someone else can\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In another attempt to make the vaccine trendy, \u201cSNL\u201d came out with a catchy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government waged psychological warfare against the American people, but at least we now know why &#8216;SNL&#8217; jokes are so bad.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":1704977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704974","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}