It seems unusual that Aziz Ansari hosted Saturday Night Live for only the first time this past weekend, but he made it a memorable debut, spearheading the first episode after Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Ansari more than made up for Alec Baldwin’s conspicuously absent Trump impersonation with a scorching monologue.
“Pretty cool to know (Trump’s) probably at home right now watching a brown guy make fun of him, right?” Ansari opened, then addressing Saturday’s worldwide Women’s March. “Crazy couple of days, man. Yesterday, Trump was inaugurated. Today, an entire gender protested against him.”
“The problem is there’s a new group.” @azizansari #SNL pic.twitter.com/Ctvk5Nu2Lb
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) January 22, 2017
However, he was careful to note that those who voted for Trump did so for different reasons: “I’m sure there’s a lot of people that voted for Trump the same way a lot of people listen to the music of Chris Brown. Where it’s like, ‘Hey man, I’m just here for the tunes. I don’t know about that other stuff. I just like the dancing and the music. I don’t condone the extracurriculars,” Ansari said. “If you think about it, Donald Trump is basically the Chris Brown of politics, and ‘Make America Great Again’ is his ‘These Hoes Ain’t Loyal.'”
The comedian also labelled those Americans who have taken Trump’s win as a reason to be openly racist as the “lowercase KKK movement, casual white supremacy,” “a tiny group that have gotten fired up about Trump for the wrong reasons.”
“I’m talking about the people who were like, as soon as Trump won, were like ‘We don’t have to pretend like we’re not racist anymore!’” he said. “If you’re one of those people, please go back to pretending…. We never realized how much effort you were putting into the pretending but you got to go back to pretending. I know it’s been a rough couple of years: Obama, Empire, Hamilton, hit after hit after hit. Star Wars movies, where the only white characters are Stormtroopers…. But you just gotta stop.”
"Change comes from large groups of angry people." @azizansari #SNL pic.twitter.com/PT03JsynPb
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) January 22, 2017
“They’re the people who are like ‘Trump won, go back to Africa! Trump won, go back to Mexico!’ Then they see me, ‘Trump won, go back to … where you came from!’ Yeah, they’re not usually geography buffs.”
Ansari, who starred as Tom Haverford on Parks & Recreation, also wore and starred in his own Netflix comedy, Master of None, in which he spotlighted the portrayal of Asians on television. He addressed this same subject on SNL in reference to Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from the U.S.: “Why are people so Islamaphobic? Because every time they watch movies or TV shows and where Muslims are praying, that scary-ass music from Homeland is underneath it. If the music was different, people would be like, ‘Man, Islam is one whimsical religion, isn’t it?’”
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Finally, Ansari brought his monologue right back to the beginning, addressing the record-breaking number of protestors who turned out over the weekend around the world. “If you look at our country’s history, change doesn’t come from presidents,” he said. “Change comes from large groups of angry people. And if day one is any indication, you are part of the largest group of angry people I have ever seen.”
As for something else we’ve all been thinking but Ansari had the guts to say? On a lighter note, the host also suggested La La Land ain’t all that.
*throws chair*#SNL pic.twitter.com/vqJ5uPrZlI
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) January 22, 2017
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