Taran Killam Defends "SNL" ISIS Skit: "I'm Proud of It"
by Robyn Ross
Mar 2, 2015


"Saturday Night Live" star Taran Killam is sticking up for the show after he appeared in a controversial sketch mocking ISIS.

The ad, which pokes fun at the Toyota "My Bold Dad" campaign, features Killam as a father who's struggling to go of let his daughter, played by host Dakota Johnson, after she graduates high school and decides to join ISIS.





Almost immediately, the show received backlash, with viewers saying the sketch was in poor taste.

On Sunday, Killam took to Twitter to express his thoughts:

"Proud of this. Freedom to mock is our greatest weapon. Thanks to the writers who asked not to be mentioed by name."





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I really wasn't so offended by it, but it's hard not to consider that if something like this were to happen in real life nobody would try to take those SOBs down.

http://flavorwire.com/507400/yes-saturday-night-live-can-and-should-make-fun-of-isis

Some on the Internet say this weekend's ad was in poor taste. But as Sarah Seltzer notes, "very little is beyond parody if the parody is smart and appropriately targeted. But beyond that, ISIS is exactly the kind of group that deserves a comic assault the most: self-serious, reliant on terror and fear, Draconian, image-conscious and anti-art."