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The latest episode of “Saturday Night Live,” in which the cast played the concerned parents of New York City college students who participated in the weekend's frigid protests, made headlines last week.
Saturday's episode, hosted by Dua Lipa (who also appeared as a musical guest), featured Michael Longfellow as a talk show host and his parents, played by Heidi Gardner, Mikey Day, and Kenan Thompson.
Longfellow said these are worrying times on college campuses across the country and asked guests for comment.
Mr. Gardner and Mr. Day's characters expressed concern about the activities of children at protests against Israel's war against Hamas, but Mr. Thompson said he supported the effort.
“Well, I think that's great, that's great,” he said. “There is nothing I am more proud of than young people speaking up and fighting for what they believe in.”
But when Longfellow asked Thompson what he thought about his daughter, a student at Columbia University, specifically being involved, Thompson replied: Whose daughter is there when? No, it's noisy! ”
“Alexis Vanessa Roberts better get her butt out in class. Let me find out she's in one of those damn tents and not the dorm room I paid for,” he added. Ta.
When Day said, “I thought you were in favor of student activism,” Thompson clapped back. “Brother, I support your children's protests. Not my children. My children know better than to shoot.”
Thompson later added why her daughter didn't say “free this, free that” during the protest. “Because I'll show you what's not free, Columbia!”
He also talked about how the school had the “guts” to charge tuition “$68,000 a year” and how he was “hitting the hump” to pay it. .
“I do it all. Uber all day, Uber Eats all night, cut grass on the weekends, sold Gucci wallets out of my trunk,” he continued. “I do life coaching on IG and bounty hunting whenever I can.”
At Columbia University, dozens of protesters entered the university's Hamilton Hall on Tuesday and barricaded themselves before the university requested assistance from the New York City Police Department.
According to the NYPD, 282 people were arrested at pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and the City University of New York.
Of the 112 people arrested at Columbia University, 32 (29%) were not affiliated with the university, according to NYPD officials. At City University of New York, 170 people were arrested, 102 of whom (60%) were not affiliated with the university.
CNN's Shimon Prokupecz, Mark Morales and Celina Tebor contributed to this report.