After Kate McKinnon playing piano as Hillary and then declaring, "I'm not giving up", you had to know this was coming. The left uses satire as a weapon. But its natural tendency is to leader worship in cults of personality.
This is just the Daily Showing of Saturday Night Live in which it puts its special pleading up front.
On the first "Saturday Night Live" of the Trump Administration, cast members chose to bid adieu to President Barack Obama not with one last sketch, but a song.
At the conclusion of the episode — hosted by Aziz Ansari — cast member Cecily Strong, standing in front of a large black-and-white portrait of the now former president, sang "To Sir, With Love," the theme to the 1967 movie of the same name in which a group of students serenade their beloved teacher, played by Sidney Poitier.
Strong is soon joined by Sasheer Zamata to vocalize the rest of the song.
At the end of the song, the duo held up a cup. "We got you a mug. It says 'World's Best President,'" Strong said.
"Thank you. Don't go," Zamata chimed in.
This is the funniest Saturday Night Live has been in a long time. It's just unintentionally funny. The clown nose is off. And underneath is a shameless brown nose.
What's even funnier is that during the original Dem primaries, SNL actually spoofed exactly this kind of brownosing with its ObamaGirl sketch. That sketch is now ancient history. Obama was the first president whom SNL did not mock or parody. Instead they built comedy pieces around him.
This is what it was all about. SNL has become what it used to make fun of not that long ago.