“‘SNL’ became hyper-partisan and abandoned bipartisan satire. ‘SNL,’ like the legacy media, mostly ignored President Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline, the most stark example of its liberal bias. Show founder Lorne Michaels pretends the show remains nonpartisan. Reality says otherwise. Screams it, to be precise.”

—“Hollywood in Toto” blogger Christian Toto as tonight’s much hyped “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” looms.

My sock drawer organization is in true crisis, so I had programmed my schedule to handle that task tonight long before I knew of the special. Otherwise, I would have certainly wa…oh, who am I kidding? No I wouldn’t have watched the show if my Roku was malfunctioning and the only alternatives were re-runs of “Rosanne” and “Hart to Hart.” As Toto correctly explains, the show betrayed its mission, its origins, its original fans (like me), the culture, and the tradition of political humor, satire and comedy itself.

Toto points out that “Saturday Night Live” had the power, influence and ability to be at the forefront of a counter-culture revolution. In doing so, it would have been a national unifying force, holding the excesses—and it has been almost all excesses—of the extreme progressive capture of the Democratic Party to the public ridicule and derisive finger-pointing it deserved and needed. James Carville recently ranted that “It’s like, there’s a plant somewhere in quote–progressive—unquote America, that just to seize how many jackass, stupid things that they can embrace. It’s stunningly stupid.”

But apparently not stupid enough to be funny.

Heck, this…

….once would have been a “Saturday Night Live” skit!

If I were going to watch tonight’s celebration of the destruction of the kind of American current events humor once burnished by the talents Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Will Rogers, Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Mort Sahl, “Mad Magazine,” Mel Brooks, the Wayans Brothers, the National Lampoon and others, I would be taking names. Surely some of the guest performers should possess the courage and principles to publicly condemn the show that they once played a part in making a national icon. Looking over the list of the expected celebrity guests (who the hell is “Quinta Brunson”?), I would have once expected at least Steve Martin, Martin Short and Tom Hanks to speak out regarding the transformation of SNL into another lackey of the Axis of Unethical Conduct.

Ah, but Steve is old and grateful for any high-profile gig, Short is too nice a guy to spoil a party, and Hanks, who at heart is an American patriot, has been marinated in Hollywood knee-jerk wokeness for too long. And why is Dave Chappelle appearing? Chappelle recently revealed how the show’s producers ordered him not to mention trans issues or Gaza during his most recent hosting appearance. “It’s another sign of the show’s cowardly approach to humor,” Toto writes, correctly. So Chappelle honors the show’s ethics rot anyway. Talk about strange bedfellows…

Meanwhile, Robert De Niro is on the celebrity guest list. The actor is uber-Trump Deranged, and has traveled around the country injecting obscene and vulgar insults to this President into every appearance and interview. He has said that Trump is too much of a “monster” for him to portray, though the actor has happily won accolades playing serial killers, maniacs, cold-blooded mob assassins, and real-life sociopath Bernie Madoff. I give 50-50 odds on whether De Niro ad-libs “Fuck Trump!”during the broadcast.

In conclusion, Toto writes that SNL “stood down when it mattered the most.” Yet the commentator inexplicably omits the show’s most serious and flagrant breach of ethics and even law, when it gave Kamala Harris a free platform to promote her candidacy for President mere days before what was predicted to be a photo-finish election.

Saturday Night Live’s 50 year run has been at least 20 years too long, and I hear my socks calling….