‘Off the record, he’s got a point!’ Dilbert HIMSELF appears on SNL to give update about creator’s racist tirade after comic strip was canceled – warning ‘the race war is coming’
- Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams was recently canceled for a racist tirade he delivered to his online followers
- Over the weekend, SNL poked fun at the author via his most famous creation, the comic strip character Dilbert, who they turned into a radical
- ‘I woke up this morning ready to take the streets and paint the city with the blood of the white man,’ said Dilbert during a Weekend Update segment
Saturday Night Live got a visit last night from freshly canceled comic creator Scott Adams’ signature character, Dilbert, who waded into the waters of his author’s recent scandal.
Last month, Adams proclaimed that white people should ‘to get the hell away from black people,’ citing a poll that found nearly half of black people are not ok with white people.
During SNL’s signature Weekend Update segment, hosted by head writers Michael Che and Colin Jost, Dilbert popped in to discuss the fallout from Adams’ scandal.
The character appearance began with Che setting up the bit by describing Adams’ comments: ‘Newspapers around the company are dropping beloved comic strip Dilbert after its creator, Scott Adams, went on a racist tirade last week advocating for black people to get away from white people.
‘Off the record, he’s got a point.’
Michael Che interviews Dilbert, played by Michael Longfellow, on Saturday’s episode of SNL as the show offers its two cents of mockery following the racist tirade of cartoonist Scott Adams
Dilbert, played by cast newbie Michael Longfellow, told the audience that Adams’ apparent racism ‘was a total shock,’ to him and the ‘all-white’ Dilbert offices.
‘Most cartoonists are weird, but racist weird? Let’s just say I didn’t see that memo,’ he said.
He said he had merely understood Adams to be this ‘Trump supporting cartoonist who did magic in his spare time.’
When Che asked if there had been any implications of Scott’s true nature, Dilbert said: ‘No, I knew he was bad. He made me go into the office every single day of COVID and he knows I’m autoimmune.’
The sketch then pivoted when Dilbert said he had had some time to ponder the true nature of work and that he had been reading some of the ‘black radicals’ like Stokely Carmichael.
‘Even mundane work serves to uphold the capitalist system built to maintain a racial hierarchy.
‘But that’s all about to change: Race war’s coming. You ready Michael?
‘I woke up this morning ready to take the streets and paint the city with the blood of the white man,’ proclaimed Dilbert before the bit ended.
Adams has grown progressively outspoken in the last few years about his right-wing political views.
His current troubles erupted after Dilbert was canned by 77 newspapers in September due to its increasingly controversial plot lines, including one about a black character who identifies as white.
The comic has been in circulation since 1989 and frequently pokes fun at office culture.
During Adams’s race rant, which was posted to his personal YouTube page, which has 118,000 subscribers, he called black people a ‘hate group.’
The 65-year-old said: ‘There’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed … You just have to escape. So that’s what I did, I went to a neighborhood where I have a very low black population.’
Adams, who is said to have amassed a $70million fortune from Dilbert, and his signature character
Adams appeared to double down on the remarks on Twitter last week.
‘A lot of people are angry at me today but I haven’t yet heard anyone disagree,’ he told his 867,000 followers.
‘I make two main points: 1. Treat everyone as an individual (no discrimination).
‘2. Avoid any group that doesn’t respect you. Does anyone think that is bad advice?’
Later in the day he posted: ‘Has anyone checked the price of free speech lately? It’s worse than eggs.’
