{"id":497311,"date":"2021-05-11T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=497311"},"modified":"2021-05-11T17:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:51:10","slug":"snl-cast-member-blasts-woke-mob-upset-with-racist-sketch-he-wrote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snl-cast-member-blasts-woke-mob-upset-with-racist-sketch-he-wrote\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL Cast Member Blasts Woke Mob Upset With \u2018Racist\u2019 Sketch He Wrote"},"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-cast-member-blasts-woke-mob-upset-with-racist-sketch-he-wrote%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=497311&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\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1035190440.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Saturday Night Live star Michael Che is hitting back at critics angry for a sketch he wrote that aired on the program May 8. Titled \u201cGen Z Hospital,\u201d it made fun of twenty-something speech patterns and woke obsessions, especially the slang the generation tends to use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Host Elon Musk plays a surgeon breaking the news to SNL cast members Kate McKinnon, Bowen Yang, Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, Melissa Villase\u00f1or and Mikey Day that their friend has been in a serious accident and may not pull through. The group communicate about the patient\u2019s status using terms like \u201cbestie,\u201d \u201cno cap,\u201d \u201cgo off, king,\u201d and \u201csis.\u201d But what really earned critics ire was the skit\u2019s use of \u201cAAVE,\u201d which stands for African American Vernacular English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One twitter user <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bribrisimps\/status\/1391248044063080448?s=20\"><span>complained <\/span><\/a><span>of the supposed underlying racism, saying,<\/span><span>\u00a0\u201cLove the relabelling of AAVE and a few assorted BLACK LGBTQ+ phrases as \u2018Gen z\u2019 speak. Love to see the erasure in real time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another user claimed the skit engages in cultural appropriation, apparently not realizing that Che, who is black, was its author. \u201cThe appropriation of AAVE by white people is gross, the mislabeling of AAVE as a \u2018Gen Z phenomenon\u2019 is also gross,\u201d the critic, himself white,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chimeracoder\/status\/1391388530799153158?s=20\"> <span>lectured<\/span><\/a><span> Che. \u201cBut on top of that,\u201d he went on, \u201cthe SNL skit reads like they just pulled a list of terms from UrbanDictionary and sprinkled them in, not caring that AAVE has a defined grammar!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Weekend Update anchor, whose new show, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/tv\/that_damn_michael_che\/s01\"><span>That Damn Michael Che<\/span><\/a><span>, recently launched on HBO Max, mocked the complaints in a statement he<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COs6_GIh0_4\/\"> <span>posted<\/span><\/a><span> to Instagram Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve been reading about how my \u2018gen z\u2019 sketch was misappropriating AAVE,\u201d he said, adding that, as an African American, even he didn\u2019t know what it meant. \u201cI had to look it up. Turns out it\u2019s an acronym for \u2018African American Vernacular English.\u2019 You know, AAVE! That ol\u2019 saying that actual Black people use in conversation all the time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He then made a joking reference to Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u2019s frequent Twitter promotions of cryptocurrency DogeCoin. \u201cI meant no offense to the \u2018AAVE\u2019 community,\u201d Che said, \u201cI love AAVE. AAVE to the moon.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Perhaps his best zinger came in his caption to the statement, which highlighted the public service he believes he\u2019s performing in mocking Gen Z lingo. \u201cIf I could stop one person from calling everybody bro and bestie, I\u2019m happy with that,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Like a true comedy professional, there was one criticism the 37-year-old Che didn\u2019t take offense to \u2014 that the skit wasn\u2019t funny.\u00a0 \u201cLook the sketch bombed,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m used to that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maybe the next sketch Che writes should feature white Gen Z progressives scolding black comedians for \u201cculturally appropriating\u201d their own ethnicity?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Megan Basham (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megbasham\">@megbasham<\/a>) is the entertainment reporter for The Daily Wire. She\u2019s a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who was previously an entertainment editor and podcast co-host for World Magazine.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Night Live star Michael Che is hitting back at critics angry for a sketch he wrote that aired on the program May 8. 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