Rob Schneider Knew Saturday Night Live Was 'Over' When Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton Sang 'Hallelujah'

Saturday Night Live is "over", says former cast member Rob Schneider. And he knows exactly when it happened.

Schneider, whose politics have grown increasingly conservative over the last few years, sat down with Glenn Beck to discuss his opinions and what he thinks about his old stomping grounds these days. "I hate to crap on my old show," says Schneider. "But when I saw... when Hillary Clinton lost... when Kate McKinnon went out there on Saturday Night Live in the cold opening... she started dressed as Hillary Clinton and she starts playing "Hallelujah"... I literally prayed, I said 'please have a joke at the end. Don't do this. Please don't go down there'. And there was no joke at the end," Schneider recalls. "And I went, 'it's over. It's over. It's not gonna come back.'" 

During his conversation with Beck, Schneider also slams left-leaning late night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. "You can take the comedic indoctrination process happening with each of the late night hosts, and you could exchange them with each other. That’s how you know it’s not interesting anymore," he says. "There's not an independent voice anymore. It's all indoctrination by comedic imposition."

Since leaving Saturday Night Live in 1994, Schneider has appeared in movies like Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo, The Hot Chick, and Grown Ups. He also led Netflix's short-lived Real Rob. 

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Jade Budowski is a freelance writer with a knack for ruining punchlines and harboring dad-aged celebrity crushes. She was previously a reporter/producer at Decider and is a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow her on Twitter: @jadebudowski.