Saturday Night Live celebrated their 50th anniversary this weekend with three nights of SNL 50, bringing back some of their alumni cast members and iconic skits.

The problem for the show, though, is that it largely served as a reminder of just how bad SNL has gotten in recent years.

I know it's pretty easy to make fun of just how bad SNL is these days. They're such an easy target that it's almost like punching down at this point. But man, it's just sad when you're reminded how funny the show used to be back in the days of names like Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy and the legendary Norm Macdonald.

And one of the sketches that they brought back last night was "Black Jeopardy."

Now I wouldn't consider this one of their most iconic skits. It first debuted about 10 years ago, and has only returned a handful of times. But back in 2016, Lorne Michaels and crew used the sketch as an opportunity to comment on Donald Trump's first presidential run.

The sketch featured Tom Hanks as "Doug," a white man in a MAGA hat competing on "Black Jeopardy" who got all the answers right and made the rest of the crew realize that they had more in common with Trump supporters than they thought.

Well they decided to bring it back again last night...and it didn't go over well.

The skit started out with Eddie Murphy, Tracy Morgan and Leslie Jones serving as the contestants. But towards the end, Hanks once again shows up as "Doug" in his MAGA hat, portraying Trump supporters as racists who are afraid to shake the hand of the black host played by Kenan Thompson.

The rest of the sketch was alright, with the big joke being that the contestants had never even heard of SNL. But it seems that Hanks and his portrayal of Doug missed the mark - not only with the studio audience, who didn't even laugh at the joke, but with many online who blasted their performance as an offensive caricature of Trump supporters.

As many pointed out, Trump had more support from black voters in 2024 than in any of his two previous presidential campaigns:

But others criticized the performance as an offensive stereotype of half the country that voted for Trump as ignorant racists:

Of course the media and shows like SNL are never going to learn, because they live in a liberal bubble and hire 20-something year old writers who have never interacted with anyone outside of their social circle. They have this image of Trump supporters as racist rednecks, and assume that everybody else in the country does too, so I'm sure they thought this one was going to crush.

Man, I miss the days of SNL with guys like Norm Macdonald making so many jokes about OJ Simpson being a murderer that he was literally fired from the show.