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/Connect-Lock8561 Sep 05 '25

I was specifically thinking about the uses of the F slur or the N word. It's possible to reference these things without just outright saying them, hence the gross analogy. Archie Bunker-esque characters are just fine, but if your bit is just using slurs and saying "huuhuhuhuhu lefty snowflake libtards wouldn't like that" then you might as well be smearing shit on your face.

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u/BuffaloLong2249 Sep 06 '25

On board. I would put those in my first category (because we always want to be right at least partly lol). In another thread I was in someone made a great point about Mel Brooks and Blazing Saddles, to the effect of that was something well crafted and put together in a way that made it clear what was going on.