SNL refreshingly ignored President's Trump's latest antics

Slate

"This week’s Saturday Night Live cold open featured corny and unfunny jokes, some extremely half-a**ed impersonations of media figures and government officials who’ve been in the news lately, and a running time that somehow managed to be at least eight minutes too long, despite the fact that the entire sketch ran for less than six minutes," says Matthew Dessem. "It was also one of the most reassuring things I’ve seen on television since the night of Nov. 8, 2016. Bask in the normalcy: That is not a great example of sketch comedy, political comedy, or comedy in general. But you know what else it’s not? It’s not a hasty attempt to wring laughter from the latest lunacy of the week from Donald J. Trump." Dessem adds: "Any disappointment that this cold open doesn’t go anywhere interesting or hilarious is more than drowned out by the overwhelming relief that at long last, Donald Trump isn’t in the driver’s seat. Comedians can ignore him, and soon we should all be able to do the same. Nature is healing."

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