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>Get the feeling they don't care but they have to say it anyway to not get shut out.

Yeah, it's performative and self-serving. But as I say above, it creates a cycle where hollywood and NYC media gets further out of touch with mainstream people, and more and more topics of humor get denied to them, so SNL just becomes a weekly Democratic Party rally and people tune out. It's one of the reasons why mainstream tv/films are just dying.