I’m not sure what’s going on over at Saturday Night Live, but the show is actually starting to exhibit something it lost a long time ago… the ability to make me laugh.
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SNL’s latest skit may very well have been accidentally funny, but I have noticed that it’s been accidentally funny more and more lately, and in most cases, patterns are a clear indicator of intent. A blind squirrel can only find a nut so many times before you start to wonder if the squirrel is blind at all.
This skit that they knocked out of the park involves the Founding Fathers as they’re penning the Constitution. After they complete the First Amendment, they start asking which right they should move onto next.
Enter Walter Goggins’ character “Matt,” who says one singular word.
“Guns.”
Goggins’ character sits in the corner wearing cool shades and an easy confidence, making his suggestion seem more awesome than anything silly or ridiculous. After repeating his suggestion, half the room is immediately on his side.
“I don’t hate that,” says one of the Founding Fathers.
The other half seems to think it’s ridiculous and tries to find out more about “Matt,” asking his last name.
“Matt, don’t you worry about it,” he responds.
Then comes, what I think, is the part that actually got me on board with the sketch. The Founding Father at the desk asks what posterity will say if they simply enshrine “guns” as the Second Amendment. The response is perfect.
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“That we don’t play,” says Goggins’ character.
You should watch the entirety of the sketch yourself. It’s surprisingly great.
Again, it may very well be that SNL was actually poking fun at pro-gun people, but if I had to guess, they were actually trying to strike a balance between making conservatives laugh and leftists laugh. There were times during the sketch where it did feel like they were trying to make “Matt’s” side seem silly, and the sketch ends with text that no one ever saw Matt again because he was ironically shot after exiting the building.
The balance they’re trying to seemingly hit is still usually weighted to the left, but I have noticed SNL getting a bit braver about what they make jokes about. Just last month, I was surprised to see SNL had actually mocked the gay community and adoption in a skit that was surprisingly not woke in the least, and really made the gay community the butt of the joke.
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As I said in that article, SNL is actually at its best when it’s trying to make both sides laugh in good faith by making everyone the butt of the joke at some point, and it seems that the show has finally gotten to a point where it’s willing to stop being so partisan and start doing comedy. You know… what it was supposed to be doing in the first place.
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This does line up with a cultural shift that seems to be echoing throughout various parts of the entertainment industry, but I would say that SNL is currently displaying signs that it’s learning faster than all the others. Still, I’m not going to completely trust the same people who wrote the Hillary Clinton playing a sad piano sketch after Trump’s 2016 victory.
But we’ll see. Perhaps we are seeing SNL get into a groove that actually makes Americans across the board feel like they can tune in and have a laugh. At least, that’s where I hope this is going.
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