No Finn didnât write the jokes. But yes hosts of the show do have a say in skits and jokes they do or donât want to do for whatever reason. Itâs not like ST where you perform whatâs on the page with no say. SNL is collaborative with its hosts and always has been. So itâs a complicated thing and I can see why both fans are defending him and also mad at him.
IMO Finn did not set out to offend multiple groups maliciously here folks, and he doesnât deserve the level of hate I am seeing which is unhinged, but also he is not fully blameless in the equation as he sat down during a whole week of collaborative sessions with the cast and table reads and dress rehearsals and thought those jokes were fine enough for them to get to air. He is both not guilty of the horrible crimes people are throwing at him and also not entirely some innocent little thing with zero autonomy in the situation and queer people who are hurt are 100% valid (as are women because wtf was that monologue joke about the demigorgon? did a 13 year old incel write that?!?)
both things can be true.
but more than that, people have got to learn how to regulate their emotions! they have got to learn how to handle disappointment and offense and anger without going right into becoming the types of people they claim to stand against. being mad at a homophobic joke by slinging homophobic slurs back at him? what??? going straight from zero to threats of violence and body shaming and nasty insults? what does that solve?
two wrongs do not make a right and if your offense is a moral based one, behaving just as, if not *more* immorally in return, doesnât make you right it just makes you equally as stupid
if you are mad, feel those feelings, but feel them in a productive way that doesnât just equate to unchecked hate cause that has never once helped us progress as a society and there is a valid issue here with casual homophobia making a resurgence, and unfortunately that topic gets overshadowed when it becomes buried under social media temper tantrums









