Gary Kroeger, who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live in the Ebersol years, reports on his experiences at the big anniversary special/party.
Some "MAGA" folks are outraged at how Tom Hanks portrayed one of their kind on the show. It did strike me that the moment was a little gratuitous and unfair to some…but so is the way MAGA members usually caricature Liberals or other folks they see as The Enemy. Seems like kind of a wash to me.
What I find interesting about it is that so many of the complaints about it included the usual Trump dismissal that the magazine that criticizes him is so unpopular, it's going out of business or the TV show that mocks him is failing in the ratings. That insult is usually just plain wrong. That magazine's doing fine, the TV show's ratings are up, etc. I must have seen a half-dozen people saying something like, "This is why Saturday Night Live's ratings are abysmal"…and they aren't. The show does fine and that 50th Anniversary Special was NBC's most-watched prime-time entertainment telecast in five years.