'Naked Gun' director on why he thinks Babylon Bee is funnier than 'Saturday Night Live'

Legendary "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" director David Zucker argued in a recent interview that the decline of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" led to the rise of the satirical news site the Babylon Bee.

While appearing on Mike Rowe's podcast "The Way I Heard It" on Feb. 17, Zucker was asked by Rowe what he thinks led to the rise of the Babylon Bee in recent years.

"I think it's a lot because of what happened to 'Saturday Night Live,'" Zucker remarked. "They were committed to an ideology rather than to jokes.