Crowd protests ‘SNL’ vaccine joke as anti-Semitism

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Former state assembly member Dov Hikind, seen here in a photo, led a protest outside NBC’s “SNL” studios on February 27, 2021.
Stefan Jeremiah

“Saturday Night Live” didn’t get a laugh on West 49th Street, as dozens of people turned out with megaphones and signs to protest a joke the week before about vaccinations in Israel.

The crowd, led a few hours before the show aired by former state deputy Dov Hikind, chanted “Shame on NBC!” and “Anti-Semitism is no fun!” outside NBC’s West 49th Street entrance.

Comedian Michael Che sparked backlash when he joked on a recent segment of the “Weekend Update”: “Israel reports that it has vaccinated half of its population. I’m going to guess it’s half Jewish.

“It’s amazing they haven’t apologized yet,” Hikind told The Post.

“They did something so blatant, so horrible, personally I’m sick of a big network like NBC that spreads hate. This is essentially what they did.

He vowed to continue “whatever needs to be done” until the problem is recognized.

“I am not going to be silent about these things that really endanger the Jewish people,” he said.