‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Skewers University Presidents For Their Evasive Answers At House Anti-Semitism Hearing
deadline.comJust hours after Liz Magill resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania over the evasive answers she and two other academic leaders gave at a House hearing this week, they were being mocked on the Saturday Night Live cold open.
So was Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the Trump-supporting congresswoman whose queries nevertheless triggered a bipartisan furor directed at university presidents, who have been faced with weeks of protests on their campuses over the Israel-Gaza war.
When asked whether someone calling “for the genocide of Jews” would violate the schools’ code of conduct, they did not answer “yes” or “no” and instead gave nuanced responses.
The SNL skit, staged as C-SPAN coverage, the three university presidents gave even more opaque answers. As an amped up MAGA star, Stefanik, played by Chloe Troast, shouts at the university presidents. “Yes or no!
Read more on deadline.com