Michael Schur defends SNL's post-9/11 Afghanistan invasion "War Party" sketch

New York Post

The controversial 2001 sketch that surfaced on Twitter earlier this week after the Taliban retook Afghanistan starts off with Will Ferrell, Jimmy Fallon, Maya Rudolph and company bantering at a house party. Then, all of a sudden, Seth Meyers interrupts the soirée to inform everyone that Northern Alliance soldiers have captured the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Schur, a former SNL writer, tweeted in response: "Not my sketch, but I was there. This is satire. It starts at a well-heeled cocktail party with everyone being ridiculous, and then they break into song when they hear we've reached Kandahar. The point was to make fun of how cavalier and ignorant we were being about the invasion."