Joke’s On You! Looks Like The Biden Administration Wrote ‘SNL’s’ Unfunny Covid Comedy

It turns out the Federal Election Commission’s rules on disclosing advertisers in political ads don’t apply to all partisan entities.

According to Judicial Watch, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) enlisted and paid screenwriters, production companies, comedians, TikTok influencers, Joe Rogan guests, and church leaders to promote its Covid shot propaganda to the public. Yet nowhere have we seen “paid for by the HHS and CDC” on the sponsored ads the government used to bombard Americans over the last couple of years. 

The Biden administration made a plan to recruit “all media companies and show producers” to do its bidding, which would include NBC. NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” (“SNL”) didn’t even need “paid for by” Disclaimers for people to pick up on its vaccine propaganda, however. The studio’s pandemic “comedy” sketches felt far more like CDC and Big Pharma ads than jokes. The Federalist reached out to NBC to ask if SNL Studios’ executives, producers, writers, or comedians were involved in the CDC and HHS’s coordinated effort to push the Covid jab, and although the studio did not respond, it’s hard to believe SNL wasn’t involved.”

Mocking the Unvaxxed

In October 2021, rapper and filmmaker Ice Cube walked away from over $9 million after producers of the upcoming film “Oh Hell No” demanded he get the Covid jab. “SNL” did a sketch featuring cast member Kenan Thompson as an ignorant and socially unaware Ice Cube, and at the end, Thompson’s character said he isn’t getting the jab because he’s “scared of needles.” 

Never mind legitimate concerns about vaccine efficacy (which tanked) or injuries, such as menstrual cycle abnormalities or myocarditis, “SNL” made an example of Ice Cube, as if his reasons for turning down the Covid shot must be stupid and childish.

The show did the same thing to Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who famously refused the shot despite discriminatory pressure tactics from the NFL to force him into compliance. The sketch joked that Rodgers’ refusal was predicated by his “Screw you, science. I know Joe Rogan” attitude. “SNL” also suggested Rodgers’ natural immunity was void, implied he was risking the lives of his teammates, and said his fear the vaccine could affect his fertility was “insane.”  

Making the Jab Cool

Another strategy “Saturday Night Live” used to push the vaccine was making the jab seem desirable and cool. In one cold open Kate McKinnon played Anthony Fauci on a fake game show called “So You Think You Can Get the Vaccine.” The February 2021 sketch featured different people being turned away from getting the shot because their young age or lack of comorbidities disqualified them during the initial stages of the vaccine rollout.

“SNL” was pretty frank about its intentions behind the sketch — and they weren’t to be funny. McKinnon stated: “Getting the vaccine shouldn’t be competition, but Americans will only want to get it if it means someone else can’t.” 

In another attempt to make the vaccine trendy, “SNL” came out with a catchy

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