There's a saying that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, however it seems that this idea is questionable for a car commercial parody of 'Saturday Night Live.' Critics lambasted the said sketch where Dakota Johnson played a student who bid goodbye to her father before joining to ISIS.
SNL's funny intention was somewhat failed and irked viewers who commented that NBC's show crossed the line. Apparently, SNL just wanted to give another version of Toyota's ad where a loving father drove his daughter to airport as she's about to begin her military training. The sketch was almost similar to original, but instead of airport or military, Johnson was picked by a truck where a rebel group, lead by Kyle Mooney, where in.
"OK, just call when you get there," Taran Killamm, who played the father, pleads to his daughter.
"Dad, it's just ISIS," a Johnson's line. "Death to America," Mooney's shout when Killamm spoke to him to take care her daughter.
Many took to Twitter their sentiments about the ISIS sketch pointing that its poor taste and not funny. According to LA Times' report via Canvs, Twitter reactions on SNL's show garnered 9,926. This figure is apart from 25,000 times it was tweeted based on Nielsen data. LA Times added that 8.7% tweets mentioned about ISIS and there were users put #notfunny on their posts.
If SNL's ISIS sketch and Dakota, for this and other reasons, earned negative feedback at least their February 28 episode emerged as top 1 during their slot. It had a 3.8 rating for the 18 to 49 demographic according to Nielsen.
Meantime Killamm also took to Twitter his defense for their work and writers. The comedian shared that mockery is a weapon. Incidentally, ISIS or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is a terror group that's reportedly threatening Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and his employees for blocking their accounts.
"Proud of this. Freedom to mock is our greatest weapon. Thanks to the writers who asked not to be mentioned by name," Killamm's tweet with video link of the spoof.
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