"Saturday Night Live" has become too conservative, says former cast member Horatio Sanz.
In an interview with ESPN's Bill Simmons, Sanz specifically pointed to longtime writer Jim Downey, who has described himself as a conservative Democrat, but whom Sanz and others have called a member of the far right.
In Tom Shales' 2014 book "Live from New York," Sanz called Downey "the Karl Rove of SNL."
On Thursday's podcast with Simmons, Sanz said he didn’t like working with Downey because his political views didn't mesh with the anti-establishment roots of the show.
"The guy's a genius, but his politics are kind of [bleep]," Sanz said.
He noted that when Democrat Nancy Pelosi took over as House Speaker in 2007, Downey's sketch had her wearing an S&M outfit because she's from San Francisco.
"I was like, what? That’s what you get out of that story?" Sanz said. "That everyone in San Francisco is so weird that they’re wearing … leather and whipping each other?"
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TV is little more than a distraction so that people don't stop to think about the world around them.
ReplyDeleteI don't watch it because they don't tell radical Muslim jokes like those that almost got Letterman killed.They leave the dangerous ones out.
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