Rob Schneider Reveals The Moment He Knew "Saturday Night Live" Was "Over"

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Superstar Rob Schneider shared what he said was the exact moment that
"Saturday Night Live," as he knew it, was "over": the day the sketch-
comedy show reacted to Hillary Clinton's presidential loss with no
punch line.

During the 58-year-old actor/comedian's appearance on the The Blaze's
"The Glenn Beck Program" podcast, the "Grown Ups" star talked about how
he had always believed that his job was to entertain people at comedy
clubs - and he compared that philosophy to "some comedy shows" that
seemed to be more interested in "indoctrinating" people.

Beck said sarcastically, "not `Saturday Night Live,'" and the comedian
said he hated to "crap on" his own former show. He then proceeded to
identify the exact moment when he had realized that his former show was
no longer the same place he had once called home.

"When Hillary Clinton lost, which is understandable, that she'd lose,"
Schneider explained. "Not exactly the most likable person in the room.
And then when Kate McKinnon went out there on `Saturday Night Live' in
the cold opening."

"She started dressed as like Hillary Clinton," he added. "And she
started playing `Hallelujah' [as Clinton] .I literally prayed, `Please
have a joke at the end. Don't do this. Please don't go down there.'"

"And there was no joke at the end, and I went, `It's over. It's over.
It's not gonna come back,'" Schneider continued.



"The Animal" star then called out the "comedic indoctrination process
happening with each of the late night hosts." He said they are
basically interchangeable and there's no longer "an independent voice
anymore."

Later in the show, Beck and "The Hot Chick" star circled back to their
discussion about "SNL," and Schneider said comedy that was successful
had always been about going "against" the mob.

"That's when we had millions of people [watching `SNL'] and it was both
sides," Schneider explained. "It wasn't . what I call it, it's not
interesting to just do it for your choir, for clapping people. It's not
as interesting. I mean to me it's more interesting to go against . all
the great comedians go against what the mob was doing."

[Chocolate Moose]

I am not sure I agree with him.