Another SNL Clinker

This weekend we honor the people who made sacrifices for this country by wearing military uniforms and sacrificing their lives for our continued freedom.

That’s why the timing of the latest unfunny bit on “Saturday Night Live” is all the more perplexing. Not only is the show really unfunny….it’s forays into political commentary makes it offensive to folks like me.

On Saturday night, in a rambling bit on Weekend Update, Pete Davidson savaged a host of conservatives in a Weekend Update segment that didn’t even bring a smurk to my face. It wasn’t funny.

Davidson put up a picture of Dan Crenshaw, a retired Navy SEAL running for Congress in Texas. Crenshaw is a bonafide hero who lost his eye when he was hit by a blast from an IED in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

He now wears an eye patch. Davidson described him as looking like “a hit man in a porno movie.” When he incredibly got a laugh from the SNL live audience…he doubled down by saying, “I’m sorry. I know he lost his eye in war---or whatever.”

Or whatever?

I guess that’s funny in New York and LA. Here it’s not even slightly humorous.

Here’s the remarkable part of Crenshaw’s story. Both eyes were terribly damaged and it was believed he would be permanently blind. After several surgeries, doctors restored one eye---a miraculous outcome---according to the head surgeon. He went on to serve two more deployments.

Crenshaw later tweeted---quote----“vets don’t deserve to see their wounds used as punch lines for bad jokes.” Agreed. But I’ll go further…

SNL needs to become funny again….or just fade away.