The “View” women will be split up when it comes to Tom Hanks’ controversial pro-Trump character in the “Black Jopardy” sketch that aired over the weekend during the “Saturday Night Live’s” 50th anniversary special.
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Hanks’ character Doug wore a Southern drawl and an Eagle shirt, complementing his red “America Great Again” hat.
Sunny Hostin, meanwhile, called it “a very destructive sketch. In fact, it’s that black culture is American culture.” And former Trump administration official Alyssa Farrr Griffin felt “the anger over it is a bit exaggerated.”
Whoopi Goldberg pointed out that Backlash is against the caricatures that appeared on the show earlier, and Hanks’ Doug said that he had “double” in his 2016 debut weeks before Trump’s first presidential election victory. “It was a callback.”
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The “Snl50” version of “Black Jeopardy!” featured Leslie Jones, Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan and Eddie Murphy, hosted as usual by Kenan Thompson’s Darnell. Big punchline for this particular episode? None of the competitors knew what “SNL” was.
Reflecting the ignorance of his character in a 2016 sketch, Doug at the end of the segment suggested that he create a show of his own called “White Japaldi!” So Darnell can join him. No, “We don’t need it, we don’t need it,” Thompson’s Darnell said.
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Tom Hanks’ Maga Hat Wearing Doug made his debut in 2016 with “SNL”
Created by “Weekend Update” host Michael Che and “SNL” senior writer Brian Tucker, “Black Jeopardy,” debuted in 2014 and later went on to “SNL” in 2015 and 2016. He appeared in a number of times.
Hanks’ Doug first appeared in the episode on October 22, 2016. The heart of the joke was that the character wearing his maga hat knew about African-American culture as much as the other contestants, Sasia Zamata and Leslie Jones .
In the oral history of sketches published by Vulture in 2018, Tucker explained Doug’s origins.
“I know the people on the right, my family included. I noticed a lot of overlap between what some people on the right think and the black thoughts. I texted Choi to the idea. I sent him and said, ‘Maybe there’s something here,'” he said Vulture.
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“In the past, white people didn’t get it. And if (Hanks) had the answer right and showed us that we were coming from the same thing, what would have been it? It’s not really a black danger. It’s a community of people who get these things.”
Tom Hanks came up with a racist background for his character
At the end of the sketch, Hanks doubled the racist twist of his character, and was revealed when Doug opposed the answer in the “important thing” category. In the move Hanks called back on “SNL50,” Doug initially recoiled from shaking hands with host Darnell (played by Thompson). According to Vulture’s oral history, the movement was all Hanks.
Leslie Jones told the vulture:
Tucker said, “He discovered that handshake in that moment, and Kennan also chose to come to the podium to wave to help with the joke.”
Thompson had to think about his feet after the improvisation, he said.
“My host character reaches out to someone who is unnecessarily afraid of him. I’ve experienced something like that. When he did it, I laughed so much in my mind. , I played it,” he said. “It was the most natural ad-libb I’ve ever had.”
Former “The View” co-host Meghan McCain blows up Hanks’ character as “Hate Mongering”
Former “The View” co-host Meghan McCain was among those who were angry at the Hanks character.
“Tom Hanks always wants to pretend to be someone he likes, but he hates normal Americans just like any host on MSNBC,” she wrote in an X post on Monday. . “Lucky is becoming more and less culturally relevant by the second peer.”
Contributor: Kelly Lawler, USA Today