• Saturday Night Live continues to feel the backlash for its opening sketch
  • The show mocked GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik for her callout of elite college presidents over antisemitism 
  • Several conservative commentators voiced their outrage while others posted to X calling for the show to apologize 

Saturday Night Live continues to feel the backlash for its cold open sketch last night where the show mocked GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik for her callout of elite college presidents over antisemitism.

The opening sketch attempted to make light of the college presidents’ lacking testimony, but their efforts evoked few laughs.

The sketch continued to draw the ire across the political spectrum, with many calling for the show to apologize after missing the mark and backing ‘woke‘ instead of calling out the leaders for their inability to denounce harassment.

Conservative media personality Meghan McCain wrote: ‘There is a 400% increase in antisemitic hate crimes since October 7th and SNL thinks it’s hilarious…. This is vile. Vile.’

Several others posted to X calling for the show to apologize.

Sara Yael Hirschhorn went further and wrote: ‘This is really appalling — NBC do you think antisemitism is acceptable as the punchline of a joke about American society? This needs to be investigated by the FCC.’

‘Well, I haven’t found SNL funny since they fired Norm McDonald… but now the garbage they’re producing is… vile,’ added Sebastien Togneri.

Libs of Tik Tok commented: ‘Elise Stefanik handled the pro g*noc*de University Presidents beautifully. So of course SNL mocks her. This is so difficult to watch. Isn’t SNL supposed to be funny?’

‘Can’t believe SNL decided to mock those demanding tougher action on Jew-hatred on campus rather than hose making excuses for calls for genocide,’ chimed in Jake Wallis Simons.

DailyMail.com has reached out to NBC and Saturday Night Live for comment.

SNL creator Lorne Michaels was born to a Jewish family in Toronto before he moved to Los Angeles in 1968.  He created SNL in 1975 and has overseen it for most of its 50-year run.

The pre-written sketch was rolled out just hours after University of Pennsylvania President Amy Magill – whose testimony before the House panel appeared to be especially smug – resigned in disgrace following a woeful performance these past eight weeks.

SNL newcomer Chloe Troast portrayed Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the chair of the House Republican caucus and a loyal supporter of former President Trump.