Larry David’s ‘heckling’ of Trump on SNL curbs lefty enthusiasm
Last night, many who tuned in to watch Saturday Night Live were curious if anybody would accept the challenge to call Donald Trump a racist. One person did just that, but it wasn’t impromptu:
Saturday Night Live didnt waste any time defusing the Deport Racism challenge, which offered $5,000 to anyone who managed to disrupt the broadcast by shouting, Trump is a racist!
Larry David, who had just wrapped up a sketch playing Bernie Sanders, decided to claim the bounty by shouting the line from offstage.
Here’s how it happened:
Even though it was part of a scripted gag, David still supposedly “won” the $5,000:
However, not everybody saw the humor in that bit:
Larry David sure did manage to curb some enthusiasm:
Some of the biggest criticism for David came from a writer for Grist:
Enthusiasm = Curbed!
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