SNL names a character 'Angela Barnes' | ...and she's a racist who stormed the Capitol

SNL names a character 'Angela Barnes'

...and she's a racist who stormed the Capitol

comedyIn Britain, she’s a stalwart of the type of comedy shows that BBC detractors would depict as a hotbed of woke liberalism.

But to Saturday Night Live viewers, Angela Barnes is a racist, radical right-winger hell-bent on overturning democracy.

Writers of the long-running American show inadvertently used the comedian’s name in a sketch at the weekend for a character arrested for storming the US Capitol.

In the Pandemic Game Night scene, a cosy suburban gathering is interrupted by a series of FBI agents bringing in perpetrators whose seditious intent is thinly covered by their mild-mannered exteriors.

And one of them, played by Aidy Bryant, is named ‘Angela Barnes’.

As she’s arrested, another guest at the party, played by Cecily Strong, protests: ‘Not sweet, racist Angela.’

‘It’s true,’ she confirms. ‘I’m a patriot – unlike this bubble of cucks.’

SNL sketch with Aidy Bryant in Uncle Sam costume

When told she would be going to jail, she adds: ‘It was worth it.   had sex with Chuck Norris… at  least he told me he was Chuck Norris. He kept saying: ‘"You still think I’m Chuck Norris right?"

And as she’s lead away in an Uncle Sam hat and beard, saying: ‘Don’t tread on this,’ pointing to her ass:

Published: 2 Feb 2021

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