Megyn Kelly rips Tom Hanks over SNL ‘Black Jeopardy' skit: ‘Shame on you'
Megyn Kelly is slamming Tom Hanks for his portrayal of a President Trump supporter on last weekend's 'Saturday Night Live' special.
The 'Forrest Gump' star reprised his role as Doug, a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat-wearing Trump voter, on Sunday's NBC special marking 'Saturday Night Live's' 50 th anniversary.
In a sketch called 'Black Jeopardy,' Hanks's character initially declines to shake the hand of the faux game show's host, played by Kenan Thompson.
'It's just a handshake. You're welcome at 'Black Jeopardy' anytime,' Thompson's character tells Hanks as the two finally two shake hands.
'The veil was down, and we saw what they really think of all of us, not just MAGA, but anybody on the right: They think you're a racist,' Kelly, a former Fox News and NBC host, said in a Wednesday interview with Sky News.
''Saturday Night Live' hates conservatives. NBC hates conservatives,' the 'Megyn Kelly Show' podcast host said.
'They tried to reel us in by just doing regular comedy that could appeal to anybody like, 'See, we're so fun. We've got all these big stars so we're toeing the line, and we're going to make everybody love us and you can trust us. We're not going to be too political,'' Kelly said of the NBC sketch comedy show's approach.
'Then the veil slipped, and it slipped because that's who they really are. And no one there thought there'd be a problem with that skit with Tom Hanks? No one said, 'Oh, God, is this beyond? Should we not?' Because it's all the same left-wing echo chamber,' the conservative media personality said.
Kelly, who spoke last year at a campaign rally for Trump, also ripped Hanks, who she described as one of 'the most beloved actors ever' for the Academy Award winner's portrayal of a supporter of the 47th president.
'In thanks to a nation of audiences that included those guys who look like that — with the T-shirt without the sleeves, that are maybe a little rough around the edges, who aren't as coiffed as he is with the perfect three-quarter zip sweater with their MAGA hat on, and yeah, Tom Hanks, their Southern rural accent, you absolute effing snob — went to your movies and made you a billionaire,' Kelly said.
'And your thanks to them is to mock and belittle them in the two minutes you had to portray what they might be like,' she said, 'Shame on you.'
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