The Internet Wants Jim Carrey Replaced On Saturday Night Live

Though Saturday Night Live fans initially seemed to be loving Jim Carrey in his new role of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, the tables are now turning as his appearances on the late night sketch comedy series become increasingly over-the-top. As a matter of fact, Carrey has been trending on Twitter since showing up this past weekend, and it hasn’t been pleasant.

Saturday’s cold open satirized Biden’s town hall event from earlier in the week, but the sketch left many viewers feeling that the writers are playing too much into the actor’s tendency for loud, outrageous antics and discomforting facial manipulations that don’t feel particularly well-suited for the role of a politician known to be calm and – for all intents and purposes – normal.

Of course, this is coming only a week after Carrey turned up in a sketch as the fly that landed on Vice President Mike Pence’s head during the recent vice presidential debate. This appearance, too, led to criticism of the awkward writing and Carrey’s extreme over-acting, so it seems that viewers are largely wishing for the star to tone things down a notch and for the sketches to just stick to parodying the real events instead of going so off the rails.

Here’s some of what Twitter had to say about Saturday’s episode and Carrey’s performance:

https://twitter.com/SFShinigami/status/1317681751230238720

https://twitter.com/AbysmalDepths/status/1317679416995172352

Carrey is obviously best known for his extraordinarily animated acting and slapstick humor, but many still feel that previous stars, such as Woody Harrelson and Jason Sudeikis, have nailed Biden’s charisma and collected demeanor better in their impersonations of the politician. That being said, it’s unlikely that this outcry from a vocal group of viewers will have any noticeable effect on the writers or the Ace Ventura actor’s performance in future episodes of SNL.