Katie Rich may be out of a job at Saturday Night Live, but it seems she won’t be out of work for long.
Comedy writer Rich was “suspended indefinitely” from her job at SNL after she tweeted that Barron Trump would turn out to be the “nation’s first homeschool shooter.”
Producers of the show apparently found the tweet reprehensible. Rich is still listed on the show’s website as a writer, but her name was absent from the credits on last week’s episode.
If Rich is, indeed, fired, Dan Harmon, the creator of Community and the darkly comic cartoon Rick and Morty, says Rich has a place writing for his shows.
Harmon defended Rich’s right to tell the joke, even if it shocked people.
And he offered to fly Rich to LA to meet with his studio heads, where they would discuss compensation. Rich might fit right in—as twisted as her Barron Trump joke might have been, it would easily fit into Rick and Morty script, though it’s not clear that’s what Harmon would like to hire her for.
Rich has apologized, but hasn’t said whether she’d like to continue at SNL or whether she’ll accept Harmon’s job offer. (Of course, she may not have the option of continuing at SNL; “indefinite suspension” is often tantamount to a firing.)
He might need the help as soon as possible, though: Rick and Morty season three is delayed because Harmon says it takes “longer and longer to write” every year. And the show has routinely drawn fire from feminists, who claim, erroneously, that Harmon is sexist because Rick and Morty has yet to hire a female writer (for the record, Rick and Morty has several female writers and animators on staff).