Jussie Smollett received the "SNL" treatment Saturday night. (Photo: Paul Beaty, AP)

Jussie Smollett won two comic hits on Saturday night.

First Chris Rock followed him to the NAACP Image Awards.

Then, "Saturday Night Live" dedicated a drawing to the way they imagined Smollett's meetings with Fox executives in recent days.

And it is not flattering.

In the sketch, Smollett (starring Chris Redd) is two hours behind the meeting, his manager (host Sandra Oh) apologizing and the leaders of the Fox (Kate McKinnon, Mickey Day) and Lee Daniels (Kenan Thompson) being more and more pissed off the second.

"Jussie Smollett was a victim!" Oh, insist.

"Oh, you like it," McKinnon says.

Then Redd arrives wearing a red MAGA hat. "Guys, you will not believe what happened," Redd said. "I still attacked!" He searches quickly in a shopping bag containing the white Crest stripes, the letters KKK and a Teletubby. "The killer has left a bunch of clues!"

"What killer?" asks an exasperated McKinnon.

"You're still alive, Jussie," replied another exec, played by Day.

"Only because I fought, because I'm gay Mike Tyson," Redd insists.

Oh, as director, he ends up sending him away.

The reaction on Twitter after the broadcast of the skit was largely negative.

"Oh man," tweeted @Isirikul.

Tweeter @ lisa_lisab7426 called it "bad taste".

The sketch was "a garbage can, and it's so easy to make fun of." FAILURE, said @ ramdas69 ___.

The sketch was "crazy" and "not really funny" wrote @ bookangel224.

The user @shawtyfromguam noted how the authors addressed it "was a choice".

But some have found it funny.

"This skit by Jussie Smollett is hilarious !!!" wrote @ TerpGrad01.

"lmaoooo" laughed @MrGChristopher.

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