‘Unofficially, you have a point!’ Dilbert HIMSELF appears on SNL to give an update on the creator’s racist tirade after the comic strip was cancelled, warning that ‘race war is coming’
- Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams was recently fired for a racist rant he delivered to his followers online.
- Over the weekend, SNL mocked the author through his most famous creation, the comic strip character Dilbert, who they turned into a radical
- “I woke up this morning ready to take to the streets and paint the city with the blood of the white man,” Dilbert said during a weekend update segment.
Saturday Night Live was visited last night by recently canceled comic creator Scott Adams’ signature character, Dilbert, who waded into the waters of his author’s recent scandal.
Last month, Adams proclaimed that whites should “get away from blacks,” citing a poll that found nearly half of blacks disagree with whites.
During SNL’s Weekend Update segment, hosted by head writers Michael Che and Colin Jost, Dilbert appeared to discuss the fallout from the Adams scandal.
The character’s appearance began with Che setting up the bit by describing Adams’ comments: “The company’s newspapers are launching the beloved Dilbert comic strip after its creator, Scott Adams, went on a racist tirade last week advocating that the blacks to stay away from whites. people.
Off the record, he’s right.
Michael Che interviews Dilbert, played by Michael Longfellow, on Saturday’s episode of SNL as the show offers its two cents of mockery following cartoonist Scott Adams’ racist tirade.
Dilbert, played by cast rookie Michael Longfellow, told the audience that Adams’ apparent racism “came as a complete shock” to him and Dilbert’s “all-white” offices.
‘Most cartoonists are weird, but racists are weird? Let’s just say I didn’t see that memo,” he said.
He said he had just understood that Adams was this “pro-Trump cartoonist doing magic in his spare time.”
When Che asked if there were any implications about Scott’s true nature, Dilbert said: ‘No, I knew he was bad. He made me go to the office every day of COVID and he knows that I am autoimmune.
The sketch then changed when Dilbert said that he had had time to reflect on the true nature of the work, and that he had been reading some of the “black radicals” such as Stokely Carmichael.
“Even mundane work serves to maintain the capitalist system built to maintain a racial hierarchy.
But all that is about to change: the race war is coming. Are you ready Michael?
“I woke up this morning ready to take to the streets and paint the city with the blood of the white man,” Dilbert proclaimed before the clip ended.
Adams has become increasingly outspoken in recent years about his right-wing political views.
His current troubles erupted after Dilbert was canned by 77 newspapers in September for his increasingly controversial storylines, including one about a black character identifying as white.
The comic has been around since 1989 and frequently pokes fun at office culture.
During Adams’ racial tirade, which was posted on his personal YouTube page, which has 118,000 subscribers, he called black people a “hate group.”
The 65-year-old said: ‘There is no way to fix this. This can’t be fixed… You just have to escape. So that’s what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low black population.’
Adams, who is said to have amassed a fortune of $70 million thanks to Dilbert, and his signature character
Adams appeared to double down on the comments on Twitter last week.
“A lot of people are mad at me today, but I haven’t heard anyone disagree yet,” he told his 867,000 followers.
‘I make two main points: 1. Treat everyone as an individual (without discrimination).
‘2. Avoid any group that doesn’t respect you. Does anyone think that’s bad advice?
Later that day he posted: ‘Has anyone checked the price of free speech lately? It’s worse than eggs.