These days, avoiding a political conversation is nearly impossible, especially on Saturday nights.

For over forty years, Saturday Night Live has sketched its way through politics and the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States is no different. The cultural significance of SNL is probably more important now than ever in the past.

Sure, maybe the recent political sketches won’t be known as some of the funniest of all time years from now, but nevertheless, their commentary on today’s politics goes beyond each of our living rooms.

So then, the question becomes, is SNL crossing the line by portraying their obviously negative views of the Trump Administration with their often intense humor?

From Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of Trump himself, to Kate McKinnon as Kellyanne Conway, to Steve Bannon being characterized a the Grim Reaper, SNL uses its humor to make a bold political statement: The Trump Administration is a joke itself.

But as Alec Baldwin said himself in an interview with Extra on February 9th, “We’re just repeating back what he says… Doing this is strange, but what is even more strange is this is real.”

And that is why SNL can get away with that they are doing. They aren’t making up stories about the government, they’re just reenacting what is actually happening in a more comedic way.

The sketches may be funny to some, or disrespectful to others, but the one thing for certain is that they are representing what is actually happening in the United States, which is anything but funny.

But why listen to me, this is probably just “fake news” anyhow.