"Saturday Night Live" alum **rm Macdonald says the sketch ****** is playing into Donald Trump's hands. "If you satirize someone, or mock them, you're trivializing any danger that they might be. I don't k**w any other way to do something," the comedian said in an interview with the Daily Beast. "You can't get a laugh without making the person more likable. Plus, I don't think comedy does anything anyway." Macdonald, 57, proceeded to compare comedy's unimportance to the times of Hitler and how comedy troupes back then would mock him - but it had **t stopped him from anything. "Hitler didn't care and then he did all those bad things... this guy was ** saint," he continued. "So I have ** historical precedent that comedy ever changed anything." Macdonald spent five seasons on "SNL" and served as a "Weekend Update" host. In 1998, he was ******* as host ? leading to rumors he was booted for making too many jokes about O.J. Simpson being a murderer. In his interview with the Daily Beast, Macdonald did **t confirm whether or **t that was the reason for his firing, but he didn't deny it either. The funnyman was shocked by some of the decisions made by "SNL" around the election, especially using Kate McKin**n to tell viewers that they shouldn't give up after performing a rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." "I was like, what the f--k are we getting through? That a man was duly elected president? What are you, crazy?" he told the publication. "It was so absurd that, for some reason, she was the one that was supposed to let me k**w that it's alright to go on. Go on as if **thing happened. **thing exploded." Trump has openly lambasted the ****** as "unfunny" and said Alec Baldwin's portrayal of him "just can't get any worse." Macdonald - a Canadian, who was unable to vote in the U.S. election ? previously praised Trump ahead of his presidency, **ting that he could become a "beloved" president.
07-29-2017, 03:21 AM
**rm Macdonald says ‘SNL’ is playing into Donald Trump's hands
"Saturday Night Live" alum **rm Macdonald says the sketch ****** is playing into Donald Trump's hands. "If you satirize someone, or mock them, you're trivializing any danger that they might be. I don't k**w any other way to do something," the comedian said in an interview with the Daily Beast. "You can't get a laugh without making the person more likable. Plus, I don't think comedy does anything anyway." Macdonald, 57, proceeded to compare comedy's unimportance to the times of Hitler and how comedy troupes back then would mock him - but it had **t stopped him from anything. "Hitler didn't care and then he did all those bad things... this guy was ** saint," he continued. "So I have ** historical precedent that comedy ever changed anything." Macdonald spent five seasons on "SNL" and served as a "Weekend Update" host. In 1998, he was ******* as host ? leading to rumors he was booted for making too many jokes about O.J. Simpson being a murderer. In his interview with the Daily Beast, Macdonald did **t confirm whether or **t that was the reason for his firing, but he didn't deny it either. The funnyman was shocked by some of the decisions made by "SNL" around the election, especially using Kate McKin**n to tell viewers that they shouldn't give up after performing a rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." "I was like, what the f--k are we getting through? That a man was duly elected president? What are you, crazy?" he told the publication. "It was so absurd that, for some reason, she was the one that was supposed to let me k**w that it's alright to go on. Go on as if **thing happened. **thing exploded." Trump has openly lambasted the ****** as "unfunny" and said Alec Baldwin's portrayal of him "just can't get any worse." Macdonald - a Canadian, who was unable to vote in the U.S. election ? previously praised Trump ahead of his presidency, **ting that he could become a "beloved" president.
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