The clip aired on 28 February, and parodies a famous American advert showing a father, played by Taran Killam, dropping his daughter off at the airport as she goes to join the Army.
It all seems quite normal until Dakota Johnson turns to her father and says: "Dad, it's just ISIS."
She climbs into a white pick-up truck emblazoned with Islamic State flags, with her father staring at one of the gun-wielding terrorists and saying "take care of her", to which he responds "death to America".
Needless to say, large number of people weren't too happy with the joke.
Absolutely floored that anyone would find the #SNL ISIS skit funny. Nothing funny about it, it was tasteless.Desensitized much? #OrangeRoom
— Rebecca (@becca76) March 1, 2015Not very funny #SNL with the ISIS skit. "Take care of my daughter" referring to a group that gruesomely kills.
— Randy Galloway (@Randy_Galloway) March 1, 2015I'm going to go ahead and voice my opinion on the #SNL ISIS skit. Absolutely hell no, under any circumstance. Poor poor taste!
— Matthew Lyle (@mlyle2) March 1, 2015SNL ISIS skit also draws a moral equivalence between ISIS murderers and the U.S. Military (based on the spoofed commercial), that is wrong.
— Steven Bucci (@SBucci) March 1, 2015Actually offended by the ISIS sketch... Is that seriously all you could come up with? @nbcsnl #SNL
— Liv Amato (@liv_amato) March 1, 2015I say this as a life long #SNL fan. The ISIS commercial was in poor taste. Scratch that. Horrible taste.
— Martin Hendrickson (@MCHinBoise) March 1, 2015Killam responded by hailing the "freedom to mock":
Proud of this. Freedom to mock is our greatest weapon. Thanks to the writers who asked not to be mentioned by name. https://t.co/FjdX9xGewX
— taran killam (@TaranKillam) March 1, 2015SEE ALSO: