Our readers have been enjoying our new online poll format as evidenced by the increasing participation. It’s fun to vote and see what others are thinking too.

Well, maybe not everyone. One comment we received on the website this week was to stop asking questions about President Donald Trump. This younger reader says everybody already knows the majority of our readers voted for Trump.

My answer to that suggestion is that the goal for our weekly poll is to best reflect the things that people are talking about at any given point in time. The questions are about specific issues, not who you voted for. The people that opt-in for The Post and read our newspaper tend to be of above average intelligence and desire a serious and balanced discussion of the issues, which is what The Post has always worked to do.

Freedom of speech is king here. Warning: liberal snowflakes that can’t handle the truth would be a lot safer to just limit their news sources to the numerous like-minded media sources, comedy shows or celebrities. One-track minded, non-curious conservatives may be happier just reading conservative blogs and watching Shawn Hannity on Fox News exclusively.

Last week’s question asked “Should President Trump have temporarily frozen travel to America from seven countries deemed high risk for exporting Islamic terrorism? Our readers were decidedly more in favor of Trump’s “intense vetting” than the national opinion polls.

The leading answer by far, at 57.9 percent was “yes, it is about keeping our country safe.” The middle ground was taken by 25.4 percent saying “restrictions could be necessary, but this isn’t the way to do it.” Voting clearly against the policy were 16.7 percent of our readers agreeing with the statement “no, it is cruel and inhumane.”

This week we want to stay on topic but keep it a tad lighter. Our poll question that is up on the website now through Tuesday is: “What do you think about SNL’s portrayal of President Trump and his team?”

I say a tad lighter because this really touches on a much bigger issue we have and will continue to explore. Namely, what is the proper role of the media today? That includes businesses getting into politics because it helps to target demographic groups, boycotts of such businesses by political groups, etc.

That is truly an important topic and a scary one to me. But for this week, let’s focus on “Saturday Night Live.”

Personally, I thought that Melissa McCarthy’s over the top, unhinged style parody of White House press secretary Sean Spicer on last weekend’s SNL was ... hilarious. Completely apart from the propriety or fairness of it, I am just being honest. It made me laugh.

I do find it very unsettling that so many people get their news from “comedy” shows. As a longtime fan of SNL, I remember laughing when Chevy Chase made slapstick fun of President Gerald Ford, the late Phil Hartman lampooning Bill Clinton and his sex antics, Will Ferrell as George W. Bush and his “strategery” and Dana Carvey imitating the elder Bush’s “stay the course, thousand points of light, stay the course.”

All were hilarious and I always felt that they dished it out to presidents of both parties even-handedly.

Fred Armisen poked fun at President Barack Obama but in an obviously much more reverential tone. Whether that was because of sensitivity to him being the first black president or the beginning of an unconscious shift toward opinionated comedy, I am not sure. Maybe they aren’t either.

What seems apparent to me now is that “Saturday Night Live” has moved to consciously attacking Donald Trump in a way they never have before. Is this because they have an ax to grind? Are they simply giving their target younger audience what it wants to hear? I am not sure. One thing I will also say is that Trump has asked for it with his own over the top style. You reap what you sow. Is he reaping what he deserves?

I still laughed. Should I have? Go to your local Post website or our combined areawide thepostnewspapers.com to let me know your thoughts.