Viewers took to Twitter to slam Saturday Night Live for not roasting Harvey Weinstein amid the mounting sexual harassment claims.
Social media users were quick to slam the show’s hypocrisy in not going after one of Hollywood’s biggest players following the allegations.
‘Why didn’t big mouth Michael Che say anything about Harvey Weinstein on SNL ‘Weekend Update’? He’s got so much opinion about everything else,’ Pastor Darrell Scott tweeted.
Another person tweeted: ‘That is why the political left is OK w/ abandoning but the celebrity left (SNL late night hosts) isn’t.’
‘Really?! NO mention of Harvey on SNL WeekendUpdate?,’ another user wrote. ‘This is starting to feel like a conspiracy…’
Viewers took to Twitter to slam Saturday Night Live for not roasting Harvey Weinstein (pictured, September 2016) amid the mounting sexual harassment claims
Social media users were quick to slam the show’s hypocrisy in not going after one of Hollywood’s biggest players following the allegations
It came on the heels of creator Lorne Michaels has seemingly admitted the show chose not to roast Weinstein because the embattled film heavyweight is from New York
It came on the heels of creator Lorne Michaels has seemingly admitted the show chose not to roast Weinstein because the embattled film heavyweight is from New York.
When Michaels was asked as he was leaving SNL’s after-party at 4am why the show avoided the Weinstein controversy, the producer smiled and responded: ‘It’s a New York thing.’
DailyMail.com has since learned that the cast did try out a Weinstein joke during dress rehearsal – it just never made it to air.
‘I remember a joke being made about him during weekend update… I don’t remember the joke, I just remember that it got a big reaction from the audience,’ an audience member revealed.
SNL regularly pokes fun of President Donald Trump and he has previously lashed out at the show for their impersonations of him.
Trump also hails from New York but that hasn’t stopped him from being a SNL target.
Social media users were quick to slam the show’s hypocrisy in not going after one of Hollywood’s biggest players following the allegations.
An audience member said SNL did have a joke about Weinstein in the Weekend Update sketch during dress rehearsal. That segment is hosted by Colin Jost (left) and Michael Che (right)
Weinstein was fired from The Weinstein Company on Sunday following an expose that detailed decades of sexual harassment allegations made against Weinstein by actresses and employees
Weinstein was fired from The Weinstein Company on Sunday following an expose that detailed decades of sexual harassment allegations made against Weinstein by actresses and employees.
In a statement, the company’s board of directors announced his firing Sunday night, capping the swift downfall of one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers and expelling him from the company he co-created.
An attorney for Weinstein didn’t immediately return messages Sunday.