For the first minute or so of tonight’s “Boys Podcast” SNL sketch, there was real worry that the audience would be subjected to various internet jargon slung together without very many punchlines for several more minutes. The premise of four 12-year-old boys sitting around and talking about their favorite types of snacks for the appropriately named “Snack Homiez” podcast, didn’t feel like fertile ground, even if everyone was doing their best impression of someone’s internet-addicted little cousin.
Thankfully, before too much Twitch lingo was deployed, the writers thawed out James Austin Johnson for his Trump impression. And suddenly, the four pre-teen boys (Sabrina Carpenter, Chloe Fineman, Jane Wickline and Veronika Slowikowska) were setting up increasingly funny and relevant punchlines.
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Trump came on ostensibly to discuss his favorite types of snacks (that’s the subject of the show, after all), but like the real Trump, quickly derailed to other topics. He told the children about all of the wars he ended (Seven? 900? He’s losing count). Then, he brought up the No Kings protests, but conveniently flipped the narrative.
“You know who I do like?” Trump asked the podcasters. “George Santos. He’s weird. He’s a liar.”
He explained that’s why everyone gathered in the streets en masse today. “The people are marching because they’re happy he’s free,” Trump continued. “It’s a ‘Yes, King’ march. They’re saying, ‘Yes, King.’”
While these jokes worked well on the surface, there was another layer to the whole set-up of the sketch. As Trump was getting along very well with the children, it served as a good contrast — or lack thereof — to all of the real adult podcasts the real president has actually gone on. For those shows, hosted by the likes Theo Von, Joe Rogan and Andrew Schulz, it would have not been much different if the interview was steered by a 13-year-old whose most sophisticated opinion on vegetables is that he “didn’t like them.”
It was an excellent indictment of the podcasts that agreed to host Trump in the run-up to the November 2024 election. Even without being mentioned, the grown men who brought Trump on their shows are the actual punchlines.
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