‘The View’ Co-Hosts React to SNL’s Controversial ‘Black Jeopardy’ Sketch with Tom Hanks
The View co-hosts are reacting to the controversial Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary sketch, “Black Jeopardy.”
This is not the first time SNL has done a “Black Jeopardy” sketch with Tom Hanks, but some MAGA supporters were displeased with how they were portrayed.
At one point in the sketch, Kenan went to shake Tom‘s hand. Tom cowered with fear when Kenan approached.
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Co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, “Some conservative viewers were not laughing at that part. I guess they thought this was [a new sketch]. There was a new addition, but this is a callback [to a past sketch].”
“The fact remains that they’re making anyone who voted for Trump look like a racist, and that’s why they’re mad,” Joy Behar then said.
About voters who chose Trump in 2024, Joy continued, “I personally would never do that because I don’t believe that any group is one thing. A lot of these people, in my opinion, have been misled. They thought that grocery prices would come down; they’re up. They thought inflation was coming down; it’s up. They thought that Medicaid was safe; it’s not. They thought Social Security was safe; it’s not. So it’s not only racism that caused Trump to be in office. We have to remember that. So, of course, they’re going to be insulted. We were insulted by Bill O’Reilly when he when he had a broad stroke on my folks. In the same way, it’s the same thing. And if they can do it to them, they can do it to us.”
“I liked the ending with Tom Hanks,” Sunny Hostin said. “So it appealed to us in different ways.”
Sara Haines said, “My problem with it was when it went from that pinnacle of hilarity when I was rolling on the ground. It was just the Tom Hanks part died a little so it’s more like as a high critic of comedy and as a consumer, I was like, ‘Oh end with Eddie Murphy, it was so brilliant!’”
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