Tina Fey — the woman who built an entire Emmy collection out of impersonating Sarah Palin like a cafeteria bully doing the weird kid’s voice — sat down for an interview this weekend and claimed that Saturday Night Live has a “responsibility to be fair” in its political comedy. She also said their jokes are “based in truth.” And somewhere in a writers’ room at 30 Rock, a dozen liberal arts majors who haven’t told a joke about a Democrat since 2008 spit out their oat milk lattes.

Here’s what “fair” looks like at Saturday Night Live: between 2016 and 2024, the show did approximately four thousand Trump sketches. They had Alec Baldwin on speed dial like he was a cardiologist and Trump was having chest pains every Saturday at 11:30. Meanwhile, Joe Biden got the lovable-old-grandpa treatment. Kamala Harris? Portrayed as quirky and fun. Hillary Clinton? A misunderstood warrior queen.

You know how many sketches they did about Biden’s obvious cognitive decline while the entire country was watching a man shake hands with thin air? Roughly zero. The president of the United States wandered off stage at a G7 summit and SNL’s crack team of satirists decided the real comedy gold was… checks notes… making fun of Republicans for *noticing*.

That’s their version of “fair.” That’s their version of “based in truth.”

Let’s pull some receipts here, because Tina seems to have amnesia about her own show’s track record.

Remember when they brought on Pete Davidson to mock Dan Crenshaw — a Navy SEAL who lost his eye to an IED in Afghanistan — and the “joke” was literally just “he looks like a hitman in a porno movie”? That’s what passes for truth-based political humor when the target has an R next to his name. A war hero’s combat injury. Hilarious stuff.

Remember when Kate McKinnon sat at a piano after Hillary lost in 2016 and performed “Hallelujah” like she was singing at a state funeral? That wasn’t comedy. That was a eulogy. The show literally mourned a Democrat losing an election *on a comedy program*. But sure — totally fair.

Remember when they spent an entire season portraying Sean Spicer as a lunatic on a motorized podium? When Melissa McCarthy’s version of him was literally assaulting reporters with the lectern? Now compare that to how they handled Karine Jean-Pierre, a press secretary who couldn’t answer a question without flipping through a binder like she was cramming for a test she hadn’t studied for. They gave her *nothing*. Not a single recurring bit.

This is the pattern, and it’s not subtle. Republicans get the full treatment — the mockery, the caricature, the dehumanization dressed up as sketch comedy. Democrats get gentle ribbing at absolute worst, and hagiography at best.

And Tina Fey knows this. She’s not stupid — she’s just counting on *you* being stupid.

Here’s the thing that really gets me. She said SNL has a “responsibility” to be fair. Not that it *is* fair — that it has a responsibility to be. Which means even she knows, somewhere in that 30 Rock brain of hers, that the show has been operating like a DNC communications office with a studio audience for the better part of two decades.

But admitting that would mean admitting that her entire career was built on punching in one direction. That the Palin impression — the thing that made her a household name again after years of doing nothing memorable — was a political hit job that she performed gleefully for an audience that already agreed with her. That’s not satire. That’s a rally.

Real satire punches at power. It afflicts the comfortable. You know what takes zero courage? Making fun of Republicans in front of a Manhattan studio audience. That’s not brave. That’s a golden retriever doing a trick for a treat. The audience was always going to clap.

You want to know what would actually be brave? Do a sketch about how Democrats spent three years pretending Biden was sharp as a tack. Do a ten-minute cold open about how the media colluded to hide his condition from voters. Do a recurring character based on any of the dozen Democrats who’ve been caught in scandals this year alone.

They won’t. They never will. Because SNL isn’t a comedy show anymore — it’s a comfort blanket for liberals who need to be told every Saturday night that they’re the good guys and everyone who disagrees with them is either evil or stupid.

And Tina Fey is out here calling that “fair” with the same straight face she used to mock a woman for being able to see Russia from her house.

Which, by the way, Palin never actually said. Fey made it up. But sure — “based in truth.”

The funniest thing Tina Fey has ever done isn’t any sketch, any movie, any sitcom. It’s saying Saturday Night Live is fair — in 2026 — and expecting a single person outside of a Brooklyn wine bar to believe her.

Now *that’s* comedy.