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Viewers of Saturday Night Live are taking to social media to criticize the show and guest host Timothée Chalamet after Saturday’s (Nov. 11) episode included a joke about the Israel-Hamas war.
In a Please Don’t Destroy video sketch called “Jumper,” the group’s members Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy are seen trying to prevent a man named Frank (played by Chalamet) from jumping off a building. What begins as a somewhat silly skit about a man’s terrible instrumental music suddenly takes a political — and to many — upsetting turn with the mention of militant group Hamas.
When Herlihy asks Chalamet’s character about his band’s name, he replies, “Oh, it’s Hamas. H-A-M-A-S.”
Herlihy replies, “Yeah, dude, I’m not sharing a song by Hamas on Instagram.”
While the live studio audience didn’t seem quite sure how to react, many viewers from home did have more immediate negative responses as they took to social media in outrage. Some of the top comments on the Instagram post for “Jumper” include: “Band name was an absolutely terrible joke,” “Since when is making fun of suicide and genocides cool??,” and “Why the tasteless genocide jokes.”
On X, many tweeted even more scathing responses to the video. One user condemned both SNL and Chalamet, saying, “these people are sick,” while another dubbed Chalamet and his current girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, the “new zionist couple of the year.”
Even Chalamet’s own fans are upset with his participation in the sketch.
One user wrote, “it needs to be condemned and it is,” while another shared, “yes, he didn’t write it but he still agreed to say it.”
The joke and subsequent backlash comes in the wake of an ongoing war that began with Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel that reportedly took the lives of an estimated 1,400 people. Since then, Israel has retaliated with bombings in Gaza that have reportedly killed over 10,000 Palestinians, with nearly half of those fatalities being children, per CNN.
Some viewers are even comparing the situation to the way SNL handled the war in Ukraine, with one X user sharing, “SNL had a Ukrainian choir sing over a candlelight vigil where the candles spelled out Kyiv when the Ukraine was attacked, but when it’s Palestine being bombed, and thousands of Palestinians– men, women, and babies– being killed, they feel comfortable making that into punchline.”
Neither Saturday Night Live nor Chalamet has made a public comment about the joke or the subsequent backlash. Watch the full sketch in the video above.
