SNL veteran cast member Cecily Strong wisely declines participating in opening skit depicting anti-Jewish news incident

Saturday Night Live faced a controversy of its own when veteran cast member Cecily Strong refused to portray Republican congresswoman Elise Stefanik during a recent hearing which Ivy League presidents from Harvard (Claudine Gay), M.I.T. (Sally Kornbluth), and the University of Pennsylvania (Liz Magill) testified and collectively disclosed their antisemitic viewpoints.

SNL’s ‘Cold Open’, which aired on 12/9/23, generated very few laughs (gee, I wonder why?) but quite a lot of controversy. It was probably a very wise move by Ms. Strong to refrain from having anything to do with that particular skit.

Wow, I guess there’s no place for ‘Jew-hatred’ at Harvard U. anymore :

After shooting & killing actress Halyna Hutchins 2 years ago, Facebook Fact Checkers “CENSOR” this Meme – probably because Baldwin chooses to impersonate Donald Trump on SNL

MEMO TO SELF – Log onto, Amazon.com & order Me one of these Tee Shirts. Then after I discovered Facebook had “Censored” me for posting this Meme, I then responded in the comments section – Yo Facebook Fact Checker, YOU forgot to mention that the lady Alec Baldwin shot (Halyna Hutchins) is still very much Dead. You seemed to have left THAT part of the story completely out.

YouTube blogger finally reveals the craziest, ‘entitled’ Uber passenger from Hell

For those of you who might’ve had any interest on possibly becoming a Driver for either Uber, or Lyft — PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH THIS VIDEO. Would you view the Driver in this Video (Ben) as being: extremely patient, OR, extremely stupid? Personally, if I happened to be the Uber Driver of this vehicle, I think I would’ve stopped the car, got out and opened the rear passenger-side door, and then proceeded to just beat the living bejesus out of that crazy bi@#$. To understand the full scope of what exact I’m referring to, please take a few minutes to actually watch this video. Enjoy!

Legendary movie icon De Niro humiliates himself by publicly urging Special Council Mueller to screw over President Trump

Hollywood legend Robert De Niro — he’s truly a ‘class act’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/opinion/robert-de-niro-robert-mueller-we-need-to-hear-more.html

Robert De Niro: Robert Mueller, We Need to Hear More

You said that your investigation’s work “speaks for itself.” It doesn’t.

By Robert De Niro
Mr. De Niro is an actor, producer and director.

Dear Mr. Mueller,

It probably hasn’t escaped your attention (in my mind, nothing escapes your attention) that I play a version of you on “Saturday Night Live.” As “Robert Mueller,” my character is intimidating because he is so honest and upright. I do it for comic effect — that’s the intention anyway — but there’s also a lot of truth to it. To put it another way — it’s good-natured fun, but not entirely good-natured.

There’s a level of satire, directed at the current administration. To be fair, not everyone appreciates the humor. The president has tweeted that there’s “nothing funny about tired ‘Saturday Night Live’” and that it’s “very unfair and should be looked into,” even “tested in courts,” and “this is the real collusion!” Though what or with whom the show would be colluding is unclear. But then I don’t have to tell you about problems with the term “collusion.” You barely mention the word in your report, and then only to explain why you’re not using it. That could be a punch line on “Saturday Night Live.”

As I prepared for my role on the show, I got to know you a lot better. I read about your lifetime devotion to public service and your respect for the rule of law. I watched how you presided over the special counsel’s office apparently without leaks. And you never wavered, even in the face of regular vicious attacks from the president and his surrogates.

While I and so many Americans have admired your quiet, confident, dignified response in ignoring that assault, it allowed the administration to use its own voice to control the narrative. And those voices are so loud and so persistent that they beat even reasonable people into submission. The loudest, most persistent voice belongs to the president himself, and under most circumstances, we want to believe our president.

There’s a lot of speculation about the president being tone-deaf to facts, but there’s not much disagreement about the tone. Whether you take delight in it as his loyal supporters do or you’re the unfortunate target of his angry rhetoric, the hostile way he expresses himself registers with everyone. Nor is there much credible disagreement that the president treats lies, exaggerations and bullying as everyday weapons in his communication toolbox. These onslaughts of rhetoric aimed at his opposition mostly leave his antagonists sputtering in response, but I don’t think an in-kind response will be very effective either.

Say what you will about the president — and I have — when it comes to that lying, exaggerating, bullying thing, no one can touch him. He has set up a world where it seems as if those disapproving of him can effectively challenge him only by becoming just like him. He’s bringing down the level of the entire playing field.

And here, Mr. Mueller, is where you come in — where you need to come in. In your news conference, you said that your investigation’s work “speaks for itself.” It doesn’t. It may speak for itself to lawyers and lawmakers who have the patience and obligation to read through the more than 400 pages of carefully chosen words and nuanced conclusions (with all due respect, as good a read as it is, you’re no Stephen King).

You’ve characterized the report as your testimony, but you wouldn’t accept that reason from anyone your office interviewed. Additional information and illumination emerge from responses to questions. I know you’re as uncomfortable in the spotlight as the president is out of it. I know you don’t want to become part of the political spectacle surrounding Russia’s crimes and your report on them. I know you will, however reluctantly, testify before Congress if called, because you respect the system and follow the rules, and I understand why you’d want to do it away from the public glare.

But the country needs to hear your voice. Your actual voice. And not just because you don’t want them to think that your actual voice sounds like Robert De Niro reading from cue cards, but because this is the report your country asked you to do, and now you must give it authority and clarity without, if I may use the term, obstruction.

We’ve learned our lesson about what can happen to the perception of your work when interpreted in rabid tweets by the president, dissected by pundits all over the map, trumpeted in bizarre terms by the president’s absurd personal lawyer and distorted by the attorney general.

And if, in fact, you have nothing further to say about the investigation, for your public testimony, you could just read from the report in response to questions from members of Congress. Your life has been a shining example of bravely and selflessly doing things for the good of our country. I urge you to leave your comfort zone and do that again.

You are the voice of the Mueller report. Let the country hear that voice.

With great respect,

Robert De Niro

Yo, ‘Saturday Night Live’: Are YOU going to feature this Loser cast member in your opening segment this week? I didn’t think so

Alleged Assault and Battery criminal, Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin charged with assault after allegedly punching man during parking spot spat

By Sasha Savitsky | Fox News

Hot-headed thespian Alec Baldwin has been charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment following his arrest Friday afternoon after he allegedly punched a man in New York City’s ritzy West Village neighborhood, law enforcement sources tell Fox News.

Police sources say the frequent “Saturday Night Live” host was released around 4 pm EST from custody after getting into an argument over a parking spot. He is due back in court on November 26th.

In a video obtained by Page Six, Baldwin, 60, is seen walking out of the NYPD’s 6th Precinct station house in Greenwich Village. The actor kept quiet as he made his way towards a waiting car.

Law enforcement responded to a 911 call for an alleged assault around 1:30 pm EST, sources told Fox News, in which a 49-year-old male was treated for an injury to his left jaw. The individual was conscious and alert and transported to Lenox Hospital.

Hours after his arrest, Baldwin took to his family foundation’s Twitter account to address the incident.

“Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today’s story,” Baldwin wrote.

“However, the assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false,” he continued. “I wanted to go on the record stating as much. I realize that it has become a sport to tag people w as many negative charges and defaming allegations as possible for the purposes of click-bait entertainment.”

Baldwin concluded: “Fortunately, no matter how reverberating the echos, it doesn’t make the statements true.”

A rep for the actor had no comment when reached by Fox News.

Baldwin lives in the tony downtown Manhattan neighborhood with his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, 34, and their four children.

This is not the first arrest for the notoriously tantrum-prone star. Baldwin was cuffed in 2014 after he became “belligerent” with a police officer who stopped him on his bike after he was riding in the wrong direction.

Baldwin was placed into custody and taken to the NYPD’s 6th precinct after allegedly punching a man in the face over a parking spot.

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NYPD told Fox News at the time that Baldwin, who had no identification on him, “refused to [identify] himself, became belligerent, cursing and yelling. He was then placed in handcuffs.”

Baldwin went on a Twitter rant after that arrest, posting the arresting officer’s name and badge number. The actor tweeted that he was taken into custody while “photographers outside my home ONCE AGAIN terrified my daughter and nearly hit her with a camera. The police did nothing.”

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He then added, “New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.”

Baldwin has also had several other run-ins with the general public that did not involve law enforcement.

In 2011, the former “30 Rock” star was removed from a flight after refusing to stop playing the game “Words With Friends” on his phone.

In 2012, he was accused by a photographer of getting aggressive with him on a New York City street, and in 2013 another photographer filed a harassment claim against Baldwin.

The prickly man about town had been laying relatively low recently when it came to street scuffles, making more headlines for his frequent attacks on President Trump and his popular parody of the president on “Saturday Night Live.”

But Trump didn’t seem to take Baldwin’s impersonation personally when asked about the actor’s parking-spot spat at a gathering of reporters on the south lawn of the White House on Friday.

“I wish him luck,” Trump said upon being informed of Baldwin’s predicament.

The liberal actor doubled down on his anti-Trump rhetoric at a fundraiser for New Hampshire’s Democratic Party just last month.

“It is time to overthrow the government of Donald Trump — not in a violent way or unlawful way — but it must be overthrown nonetheless,” Baldwin told a crowd of some 800 party office-holders, candidates, officials and activists, drawing loud applause.

ALEC BALDWIN: ‘EVER SINCE I PLAYED TRUMP, BLACK PEOPLE LOVE ME’

Baldwin also told reporters that he’s “always dreamed” of running for office himself, but explained it’s not in the cards for him at this time.

“My wife told me she’d divorce me if I ran for office,” he joked.

He also downplayed suggestions that his Democratic activism would limit the success of his struggling “The Alec Baldwin Show,” his new venture on ABC, which is scheduled to air this weekend as planned, despite Friday’s arrest.

“’The Alec Baldwin Show’ will air as scheduled on Sunday,” an ABC spokesperson told Fox News.

Fox News’ Mariah Haas, Brian Flood and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.