While the rest of the media were swooning over recent Saturday Night Live episodes almost exclusively devoted to anti-Trump sketches, Monday’s Good Morning America hit pause on that narrative, wondering if it’s “going too far” “pushing their politics” and “sacrificing some laughs along the way.”

Co-host and former Clinton administration spin doctor George Stephanopoulos surprisingly led the way, admitting that even though the show’s seeing a ratings bump, SNL could come crashing back to earth as “now critics suggest they may be pushing their politics too far sacrificing some laughs along the way.”

Chief national correspondent Tom Llamas followed with a full report, explaining to viewers that “SNL is doing more and more Trump sketches but some are saying the comedy is going from cutting to cruel.”

Llamas reported that the most recent episode “scoring their biggest audience in six years” with over “22 million clicks on YouTube to watch Melissa McCarthy spoof Press Secretary Sean Spicer.” However, Llamas conceded that “[t]rashing Trump may be ratings gold for SNL, but now some are asking are they going too far?”

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Llamas expounded upon the controversial sketching featuring Kate McKinnon as Trump counsel and former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway embodying “Glenn Close in her 1987 film Fatal Attraction” as she stalked CNN’s Jake Tapper (played by Beck Bennett).

“The sketch painting Conway as violent, graphic, sexual. At one point, she falls from a window only to come back to life...New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi, who covers Trump, tweeting: ‘SNL just gave a gift to the White House with this sexist, unfunny Kellyanne Conway skit,’” Llamas added.

Llamas concluded that the real-life Conway told ABC that she wasn’t bothered and seemed to be a good sport about it.

Stephanopoulos reappeared with far-left comedian/pundit Dean Obeidallah, who loved how SNL has gone extremely political in their sketches. Concerning the Conway sketch, Obeidallah shamelessly saw no problem with it:

At the end of the day, Kellyanne Conway in that sketch, she has the last laugh. She gets up. She says, I'll see you on TV. I think it was actually really well done and I think in today's day and age, comedy is cathartic. We need to be laughing at the Trump administration for those people who don't like the Trump administration. It's a release and makes you feel good. I think it’s empowering. And I think it’s really important, I think it was really well done.

When even Stephanopoulos hinted that perhaps SNL should be concerned that they’re “going to the well too many times,” Obeidallah misread his question and instead fawned over how the NBC program now mocks a number of other people in the administration besides the President.

“I bet you they're disappointed Trump didn't tweet after the show afterwards...In fact, I want him to mock me on Twitter. It’s good for business. So, if he's watching, @DeanOfComedy, come right after me. But I think that, on some level, SNL is doing us a great service. It's making people laugh at a time when we really need to laugh,” Obeidallah ruled with a Trumpian tone.

Chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl joined the conversation near the end of the segment, vehemently disagreeing with Obeidallah about the “mean-spirited” Conway bit:

I don't think it was funny. It seemed to be incredibly mean-spirited. This is somebody who has young children and also just didn't — you know, what makes SNL so funny when they cut a little bit towards the truth. That was just not an accurate portrayal of Conway. I mean, she is somebody who actually is pushed to do more television by the President. Somebody who the President wanted to be the press secretary. The President wanted her to be out there nonstop. She has many more requests to go on television than those that she actually accepts.

Here’s the relevant portions of the transcript from ABC’s Good Morning America on February 13: