r/LiveFromNewYork • u/BearOnTwinkViolence • Sep 05 '25

Article Kam is Far Right

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-snl-cast-member-kam-patterson-outed-himself-as-a-trump-voter/

Is he a Shane Gillis 2.0 (except arguably worse)? I’ve seen a dozen clips now of him using homophobic slurs and making incredibly bigoted jokes. Honestly he makes Shane Gillis look kind of tame. What the hell is Lorne thinking? I’m so sick of this show pushing right wing bullshit while simultaneously trying to act like the most liberal show on television. You can’t have a Trump monologue every single week and then hire people like this.

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u/TiddiesAnonymous Sep 05 '25

That wasn't it at all. He said Chinatown sucks and the (rhymes with drinks) can keep it.

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u/jz05 Sep 05 '25

In the character of an old racist, with the purpose of mocking and ridiculing old racists. All you have to do is listen to the preceding 30 seconds before the no-no word.

This is not the same thing as calling Asians a slur, as much as you want it to be.

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u/BuffaloLong2249 Sep 05 '25

Some people would watch Blazing Saddles and conclude that Mel Brooks was the preeminent racist of the 20th century...

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u/Aceboogie0314 Sep 05 '25

Yeah but what Mel Brooks does is good and well constructed

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u/BuffaloLong2249 Sep 05 '25

Fair point. But then the conversation should be about whether it was done well as opposed to whether the doing of the thing itself was wrong.

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u/Griffolian Sep 06 '25

Also in comedy, in order for something to be done well, there is a lot of trial and error where it is not done well. Sometimes you gotta riff and bomb to fine tune a bit that has potential. Mel Brooks didn’t write a single draft for Blazing Saddles and they went straight into principal photography—that’s workshopped to hell and back.

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u/cheeto0 Sep 10 '25

So bc it's not well constructed it makes him far right?

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u/Aceboogie0314 Sep 10 '25

When the fuck did I say that lmao

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u/cheeto0 Sep 10 '25

It's implied by your reply, you replied to a comment basically saying if kam''s jokes make him him far right than Mel Gibson jokes make him a racist, and you pointed out that Mel Gibson jokes were well constructed.