Millions of Americans are suffering through this economic nightmare caused by the coronavirus pandemic especially those that work in fields that require large crowds gathering to survive.
Most of these people are at the bottom of the totem pole such as restaurant workers, cashiers, and retail workers. Our school systems have taken a huge blow causing a chain reaction to many others who relied on their children going to school every day so they could go to work.
Everyone has been forced to stay home for months now.
However, there are some people out there who consider themselves more important than the rest of us and so they think the rules don’t apply to them.
In New York City, for example, NBC’s Saturday Night Live is up and running with not only a full cast but a live studio audience as well.
A Big Apple comedy club owner is angry that “Saturday Night Live” is shooting with a live audience, while the city’s comedy clubs remain empty because of COVID — and he says he’s disappointed that the city’s big-name comedians haven’t done more to help the ailing industry.
Dani Zoldan, co-owner of Upper West Side comedy club Stand Up NY, told Page Six that it seems as if there’s one set of rules for the longrunning NBC show and another for local clubs.
He told us that comedy clubs in the city are being forced out of business by the lockdown, and said, “From the perspective of a comedy club owner, it’s frustrating, day in and day out, to bear witness to this loss and see that every Saturday night ‘SNL’ is allowed to produce their show indoors, seemingly in violation of the same laws crushing small businesses all over New York City.”
“They have a live studio audience and the cast members are not social distancing,” he said. “I was watching the show Saturday night and I was so upset that struggling comedy clubs are going out of business while they’re doing their thing and collecting a paycheck.”
Then, during last week’s episode, the show had the audacity to poke fun at a Staten Island bar owner who’s been fighting back against the state’s lockdown orders. The bit did not go over well with many New Yorkers.
