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A whopping 91% of jokes delivered on “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update phase this season focused conservatives, while 82% of characters during the show’s cold opens mocked President Donald Trump or fellow Republicans, according to a new analysis by Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.
The media watchdog examined SNL’s first 19 exhibits this season through May 9 and discovered a one-way political firing squad.
A whopping 91% of jokes delivered on “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update phase this season focused conservatives, while 82% of characters during the show’s cold opens mocked President Donald Trump or fellow Republicans, according to a new analysis by Media Research Center’s NewsBusters. Lloyd Bishop/NBC
Of the 226 political jokes delivered by Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che, 205 focused conservatives, only 18 slammed Dems and other liberals, and three had been non-partisan.
During cold opens, actors taking part in Republicans and conservatives appeared 49 occasions, lefty characters only 10 occasions, and one nonpartisan character was featured.
The analysis — completely offered to The Post — didn’t embody the finale of SNL’s 51st season, which airs tonight.
Dumping on Trump — who hosted the show twice before being elected president — was the first focus this 12 months for NBC’s long-running, live-sketch comedy. And scores are up thanks to the Trump bump.
The president accounted for 101 – or almost half – of Weekend Update jokes, NewsBusters discovered.
“President Trump dismissed weapons fire between the US and Iran as a ‘love tap,’” Che joked during the May 9 phase. “He also called gas prices gentle sodomy.”
And heading into the finale, Trump’s character — usually performed by James Austin Johnson — had already made a dozen appearances this season during cold opens.
During its April 4 broadcast, SNL notoriously mused about the chance of Trump being assassinated.
Che sickly crowbarred the “joke” into a bit about the president attending a efficiency at the lately renamed Trump Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
During cold opens, actors taking part in Republicans and conservatives appeared 49 occasions, lefty characters only 10 occasions, and one nonpartisan character was featured. NBC / SNL
“President Trump attended the opening night of ‘Chicago’ at the Kennedy Center, and I think that’s cool that the president is going to the theater. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?” said Che, referring to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Che then flashed a grin as the viewers responded with an over-the-top guffaw.
“‘Saturday Night Live’ hasn’t been a good television show since President Trump hosted it” in 2015, White House spokesman Davis Ingle fired back two days later.
Trump confronted two assassination makes an attempt during the 2024 marketing campaign and survived another attempt April 25 – three weeks after Che’s bit – during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s character completed second in cold-open appearances with 9, adopted by ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s characters, with 4 each.
Bobby Moynihan and Andy Samberg during a phase on “Saturday Night Live!”
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was second behind Trump as the goal of Weekend Update jokes, receiving 14. He was adopted by Noem (12), conservative pundit Tucker Carlson (11) and Long Island’s mendacity ex-Rep. George Santos (10).
In comparability, socialist NYC Mayor Mamdani — whose off-the wall socialist schemes may present years of comedian materials — has so far been focused just once by Weekend Update.
And his character has only been featured in one cold-open phase: when comic Ramy Youssef performed Mamdani in a November sketch about a NYC mayoral debate.
“I know some of you out there are scared about the idea of a young Muslim socialist mayor, so allow me to put you at ease by smiling after every answer in a way that physically hurts my face,” said Youssef, who drew laughs by mocking Hizzoner’s signature grin.
Mamdani posted clips and video of himself laughing with Youssef about the uncanny resemblance on a FaceTime call while the comedian was still in costume.
“Michael Jordan famously said, ‘Republicans buy sneakers, too.’ Entertainment companies once understood that alienating half the country was probably not a great business model,” said David Bozell, president of the Media Research Center.
“Nobody is asking SNL to become conservative, but when every political punchline is nothing more than Trump Derangement Syndrome all the time, SNL risks turning itself into a caricature of its own political obsessions.”
The group’s findings exhibiting late evening tv is more lefty than ever shouldn’t be a shock.
A whopping 94% of the jokes delivered by late-night hosts during the first week of Operation Eric Fury slammed the United States and its allies instead of Iran and other adversaries, according to data NewsBusters completely shared with The Post in March.
And a staggering 92% of jokes made by Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and the Daily Show universe focused the best in 2025, and liberal visitors outnumbered conservative ones nearly 100 to 1, according to data the group shared with The Post in December.
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