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Dakota Johnson IS Spoof Branded 'Horrible'

Dakota Johnson IS Spoof Branded 'Horrible'

Saturday Night Live sketches are known for pushing the boundaries, but a spoof video featuring Dakota Johnson joining Islamic State (IS) has outraged some viewers.

The Fifty Shades Of Grey actress stars in a parody of a Toyota car advert where a father says goodbye to his daughter at the airport before she joins the US Army.

However, in the SNL version, Johnson's character tells her father she is going to join the extremist Islamist group.

SNL cast member Taran Killam plays the father who tells his daughter: "You be careful, OK?"

As Johnson gets out of the car, the actress leans back through the open window and, using another name for IS, says: "It's only ISIS, Dad."

As she gets into a pick-up truck with some actors playing gun-wielding IS fighters, Killam tells them to "take care of her".

The response he gets is: "Death to America".

As the video ends, the voiceover says: "ISIS: We'll take it from here, Dad."

The clip, which aired on Saturday night, has received a mixed response with some viewers calling the film offensive and in bad taste.

One Twitter user wrote: "Horrible opening for @nbcsnl #ISIS Are you nuts?! Not funny AT ALL!!"

Another said: "And SNL goes a tad too far. Not funny. Not at all. #EpicFail."

But Tracey Ferguson tweeted: "SNL has always tackled controversial stuff & found ways to make it humorous. Ppl [sic] these days get upset over everything."

Four Americans have been killed while in IS captivity - James Foley, Steven Sotloff and Peter Kassig were beheaded, while aid worker Kayla Mueller was said by IS to have been killed in an airstrike.

The SNL sketch comes just days after it was revealed that three London schoolgirls have travelled to Syria, apparently to join IS, and after the identity of IS killer 'Jihadi John' was revealed to be Mohammed Emwazi , who studied at the University of Westminster in London.