SNL's John Mulaney wishes Trump was stabbed like Julius Caesar in Senate, gets slammed: 'Not comedy anymore'
Actor-comedian John Mulaney has come under fire for one of his remarks made on 'Saturday Night Live'. Mulaney made the comment as part of his opening monologue on the popular show's latest episode.
Mulaney compared Donald Trump to Julius Caeser. He revisited the assassination of Caesar during a senate session, dramatized famously by William Shakespeare, and remarked that it would be 'interesting' if that could be brought back now.
He started the address by bringing up that the episode fell on a leap year which was created by Julius Caeser himself, a Roman military general stabbed to death in 44 BC.
Mulaney said: "Caeser started the Leap Year in order to correct the calendar and we still do it to this day."
He later went on to mention, "another thing that happened under Julius Caeser, he was such a powerful maniac that all the senators grabbed knives and they stabbed him to death. That would be an interesting thing if we brought that back now."
With this, Mulaney seemed to have opened a can of worms and his comments rubbed quite a few people the wrong way and sent Trump supporters into overdrive who went all guns blazing.
"Oh, I know, ‘I was only joking, it’s just satire, just my job’ Story — if this were you or I ‘joking’, we’d get a knock on the door the day before — such Bullshitzzz" tweeted a certain user with the handle @CkSara.
Another Twitter user wrote: "When SNL lost its funny bone in 2016... I stopped watching... SNL has digressed into a personal attack against President Trump thinly disguised as comedy... if it was funny I would have laughed... not comedy anymore..."
Another user tweeted, "What is wrong with these people like [Mulaney]? Imagine if that had been said about Obama? These people are full of hate. They hate Americans that voted for Trump."
The POTUS who is very active on Twitter and generally replies to all the love and hate he receives on the portal has reserved his opinion on this occasion and a reaction is still pending from his end.
Interestingly, this is not the first time that Trump has been compared to Julius Caeser.
In 2017, New York City’s Public Theater invited a lot of scrutiny for showing a portrayal of William Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' in Central Park which they modeled after the Trump administration.
In one of the more memorable scenes, the Trump lookalike is stabbed to death on the Senate floor by senators who fear he is becoming a tyrant.
Gregg Henry essayed the character of Caesar while sporting a business suit, over-long tie and a reddish comb-over. Tina Benko was cast as his wife Calpurnia and she bore a resemblance to Melania Trump, speaking with a similar accent.
The New York Public Theater's artistic director Oskar Eustis in his official statement on the company's website mentioned that the production should not be taken seriously and read too much into.
He wrote: 'Anyone seeing our production of Julius Caesar will realize it in no way advocates violence towards anyone.'
Trump supporters had protested against the play and some even rushed on to the stage during performances. The park also lost sponsorships from companies like Delta Airlines and Bank of America post this.