Unfortunately for "Saturday Night Live," the 50th-anniversary special just showed how bad and unfunny they are now compared to what they were in prior years. It's almost hard to remember that they used to have people with talent who were truly witty and when the show didn't seem so completely hooked into walking in lockstep with the liberal narrative. 

They even got in trouble over this past campaign season when they put Kamala Harris on the last Saturday before the election while not offering Donald Trump equal time. That didn't work out so well for her, and she even ended up copying Trump. 

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The only interesting moments of the 50th anniversary special were when they had the old, former stars who had previously been associated with the show. 

The Steve Martin opening had its funny moments. 

Steve Martin did the opening monologue for SNL’s 50th anniversary special which included Martin Short being taken by ICE & an appearance from John Mulaney.

“894 people have hosted SNL and it amazes me that only 2 of them have committed murder” pic.twitter.com/850h72xNon

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Then there was Adam Sander's bit. I must confess I like his song bits. While this one started slow with insider jokes about Lorne Michaels, he hit it out of the park when he started to get into highlighting some of the talent over the fifty years and brought up Chris Farley and Norm Macdonald. 

Adam Sandler's Song: 50 Years #SNL50 pic.twitter.com/tACkE3xNiJ

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Bill Murray also walked through some of the history by listing the "Weekend Update" hosts -- from "worst to best." The shot at Chevy Chase is funny. There was also a reference to why Norm Macdonald was wrongly booted from the show way back when, which many believe was because he went too hard at O.J. Simpson at the time. 

Bill Murray ranks Weekend Update anchors#SNL50 pic.twitter.com/2dBVmF3XIT

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Murray appeared to stand up for Norm when he said, “He may have been the best ever, but more importantly, he made me ask the question of myself: Could OJ possibly have done it?” 

But they just couldn't go with trying to embrace the humor they used to have. During a skit about "Black Jeopardy," they had Eddie Murphy playing Tracey Morgan while standing next to Tracey Morgan. That was the only funny part of the bit. But then they swapped Murphy out at the end to replace him with Tom Hanks as a Trump supporter in a MAGA HAT, who they then portrayed as a racist, bible-thumper who is afraid to shake the black host's hand. If for some reason you want to skip ahead to that wholly unfunny part, it starts around the 5:55 minute mark. 

Black Jeopardy! #SNL50 pic.twitter.com/QFKKTRWeer

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In the skit they also sort of joke about how no one really knows the answer to the question about SNL being a comedy show on Saturdays. That's true, mostly because they are no longer what they once were. They've had their occasional funny moments over the past several years and we've reported on them, but the Hanks bit is one example of the reasons why people have largely ignored them for some time. It's not even funny, it's just stupid. Nothing says "out-of-touch" with most of America, including 77 million Trump supporters. It's actually a repeat of a skit they did in 2016 with Hanks which was similarly not funny, and they haven't even learned anything since then. If you're repeating bits that failed, maybe you have a problem. 

Tom Hanks in a MAGA hat, horrified at the idea of shaking a black man’s hand, tells you everything you need to know about what the left has learned since November and why they will thankfully continue to lose landslide election after landslide election for the foreseeable future pic.twitter.com/igcPmKhKTM

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) February 17, 2025