“Saturday Night Live,” known for its biting satire of President Trump, took on gun control, paid tribute to the victims of the Las Vegas shooting, spoofed OJ Simpson getting out of prison and remembered rocker Tom Petty during Saturday’s night’s show — but not a peep about the sex scandal involving Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Social media users quickly called out the show’s hypocrisy.
“Why didn’t big mouth Michael Che’ say anything about Harvey Weinstein on SNL ‘Weekend Update’? He’s got so much opinion about everything else,” Pastor Darrell Scott, a Trump supporter, posted on Twitter.
ESPN columnist Buster Olney called the show “gutless.”
“SNL with nothing on Weinstein? Gutless,” he posted early Sunday.
“SNL” creator Lorne Michaels said they decided not to go after Weinstein because he’s from New York.
“It’s a New York thing,” he told the Daily Mail about Weinstein, who was born in Queens.
Gal Gadot, the star of “Wonder Woman,” hosted the show — which has unmercifully mocked Trump, who is also a Queens guy — by remembering the 58 people killed and hundreds injured in the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
Later, country singer Jason Aldean, who was on stage during the open-air concert when the gunman opened fire on the crowd, sang “Won’t Back Down” in tribute to Petty, who died last Monday.
Cast member Kenan Thompson played Simpson out on his first date after being released from prison.
But the show — the second of “SNL” Season 43 — remained mum on Weinstein.
Last week, the New York Times reported on accusations that Weinstein, the brains behind such blockbusters as “The English Patient” and “Shakespeare in Love” and a well-known contributor to Democratic politicians and supporter of liberal causes, sexually harassed women who worked for him and paid out thousands of dollars to gain their silence.
The mogul expressed his “regret” in a statement and said he is taking actions to “conquer my demons.”
He also announced his intention to sue the newspaper over its reporting.