In a chilly Saturday opening, Saturday Night Live highlighted the anti-Israel protests that have been spreading across the country, warning blue-collar parents that their daughters shouldn’t waste their tuition money by attending.
Kenan Thompson, who plays the Uber driver’s father, was one of three parents of college students to discuss the weeks-long story on NY1’s “Community Affairs” talk show, hosted by cast member Michael Longfellow. appeared in.
Each agreed to support the cause, but Ms. Thompson made it clear that her support did not extend to her young daughter’s participation.
“Alexis Vanessa is going to spank her in class,” Thompson said, adding that she won’t waste her $68,000 a year in tuition.
“Please tell me she’s in one of the tents and not in the dorm room I’m paying for.”
When a Hunter College father asked, perplexed, why he said he supported the protests that have resulted in hundreds of arrests at Columbia University since the encampment began two weeks ago, Thompson said: He made it clear that he supports “your children.”
“I’m here busting my butt to pay for all my tuition,” Thompson told her New School mother, played by Heidi Gardner, “and I’ll do it all for you, sister.”
“Uber all day. Uber Eats all night. Let’s mow on the weekends. Sell my Gucci and watch my trunk. Life coaching on IG. It’s all because she says she got a degree in African studies. It’s like, girl, you’ve always been black.
Longfellow even brought up the attack on Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall, which was occupied for almost 24 hours by brazen protesters.
Parents admitted it would be nerve-wracking to see their children one of the many handcuffed, but the fact that their children might not be able to celebrate graduation this year He seemed relieved — citing a series of canceled graduation ceremonies in anticipation of the chaotic protests.
But Thompson was adamant that he would take his money from Columbia and would see his daughter cross the stage.
“Even if I graduate, Alexis Vanessa will graduate,” Thompson said.
“You better believe I’m going to be there heckling and yelling after they clearly told us to wait until the end. That’s all I know.”
