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This SNL sketch about ISIS is upsetting a lot of people

Apparently, you don’t joke about ISIS.

Mar 1st 2015, 3:44 PM 4,780 Views 4 Comments

A SATURDAY NIGHT Live sketch poking fun at ISIS is being called “depraved” and “vile” by viewers in the US.

The sketch, featuring host Dakota Johnson (of Fifty Shades of Grey fame) and SNL actor Taran Killam, showed a young woman and her father playfully arguing in a car.

It’s a spoof of a well-known US ad for Toyota cars, in which a father drops his daughter off at the airport to join the army – but there’s a twist…

Source: SNLD/YouTube

Reacting on Twitter, viewers failed to see any humour in the skit:

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Just saw maybe the most unfunny #SNL piece of all time. Is ISIS really a good subject for humor? #nbc And I've loved SNL for decades.
— Ed Tate (@edwardtate) March 1, 2015

Source: Ed Tate/Twitter

Not very funny #SNL with the ISIS skit. "Take care of my daughter" referring to a group that gruesomely kills.
— Randy Galloway (@Randy_Galloway) March 1, 2015

Source: Randy Galloway/Twitter

3 young girls are somewhere in Syria tonight because they got mesmerised by ISIS, family is sick with worry and you do this? #SNL #shame
— 𝓢𝓾𝓮🇮🇲🇨🇦 #ASDmum🧩 #AdOpTiOn @GoodDoctorK_S (@manxie809) March 1, 2015

Source: Sue/Twitter

I'm going to go ahead and voice my opinion on the #SNL ISIS skit. Absolutely hell no, under any circumstance. Poor poor taste!
— Matthew Lyle (@mlyle2) March 1, 2015

Source: Matthew Lyle/Twitter

But it wasn’t all bad – a few praised SNL for daring to poke fun at ISIS:

Seeing #SNL took some shots at ISIS tonight. About time somebody did.
— Joseph Goodman, Sports Donk 🎟🍺 (@JoeGoodmanJr) March 1, 2015

Source: Joseph Goodman/Twitter

Seriously? SNL is being criticized for mocking Isis, and the people who join it? There's no group more deserving of ridicule. Thumbs up #SNL
— Katherine Morrison (@kmorrison) March 1, 2015

Source: Katherine Morrison/Twitter

What do you think? Is the skit funny, or offensive? Let us know in the comments.

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This SNL sketch about ISIS is upsetting a lot of people