Ryan Long Shames Saturday Night Live (Again)

Comedians can’t be everywhere at once.

When something occurs in the backyard of their home, excuses for it will disappear.

Ryan Long is a Canadian citizen by birth. However, the comedian has been living in New York for long enough to know the truth. It’s more like Escape New YorkThese are the days.

The rate of crime is on the rise. It is increasing. New Yorkers are leaving their city. Can you blame them?

A recent shooting at a Brooklyn subway station in the aftermath of the Democratic takeover reminded us all how far we have fallen. It happened.

•     Defund the police rhetoric sprang to life
•     Soft on crime politicians flourished
•     Lenient bail decisions flooded the city with criminals

That’s just a short list.

It is clear that the big picture does not change. New York’s glory days under the leadership of Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg are a distant memory.

Long added an exclamation to that last week. Long’s latest satirical video found him playing an inmate who’d rather stay in prison than go free in Manhattan.

He’s not crazy, after all.

We used to be able to make an honest living as a criminal without having our lives in danger…Unless the city finds a Batman I’ll be much safer here…

Now, why didn’t Saturday Night LiveFamously, the Big Apple has seen similar acts. Why not try something like this first? The show has all the resources a broadcast network can offer, and it’s likely the cast and crew have noticed the city’s nauseating crime spree.

It could have affected some of their lives.

So where’s the sketch highlighting the problem? It took a Canadian immigrant, to solve the problem that millions of New Yorkers face right now.

And it’s not a local issue. In Democrat-led towns, the crime rate is rising across the nation.

These last words are likely to explain. SNL’s silence.

Long’s clip comes on the heels of reality starlet Bethenny Frankel flexing her TikTok account to send the same message. Except she understandably can’t find the humor in soaring crime rates.

Long’s wisecracks speak to something larger. SNL’s silence suggests speaking truth to power no longer matters to the NBC sketch troupe.

[Cross-posted from Hollywood in Toto]