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SNL's new season is gayer than ever I'm one of those weird people who still watches Saturday Night Live, and is willing to slog through an hour and a half of intolerably bad guest hosts, openly wretched intro monologues and enough Will Forte to choke a camel for just a glimpse of Kristen Wiig in any of her twitchy incarnations. But only two episodes into the season, something already seems different about SNL: it's bona fide gay-crazy. The biggest gay gag thus far was the premiere's digital short, where Andy Samberg sang a love song to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, based on the leader's baffling comments to an audience at Columbia University early last week that there were no homosexuals in his country. But this week's episode (which featured guest Seth Rogan) featured a gay-inclusive moment that was far more interesting for the fact that it was barely even addressed. In a skit about a couple of hideous twin children who keep interrupting their parents' dinner party, Jason Sedakis and Fred Armisen played what was obviously supposed to be a gay couple. But in a rare turn, their being gay had nothing to do with the skit and wasn't a punchline of any kind or an excuse to camp things up. It felt as thought the writers simply said, "Well, if an urban couple was having a few other couples over for dinner, one of them could very well be a gay couple" and that was that.
The bit was funny and hit the right notes, and a later joke about George Takei getting an asteroid named after him once scientists realized he was "supergay" was amusing if only for the continued mention of the actor, whose public profile has skyrocketed since he came out. Submitted by on Mon, 2007-10-08 08:58. |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look
But this week's episode (which featured guest Seth Rogan) featured a gay-inclusive moment that was far more interesting for the fact that it was barely even addressed. In a skit about a couple of hideous twin children who keep interrupting their parents' dinner party, Jason Sedakis and Fred Armisen played what was obviously supposed to be a gay couple. But in a rare turn, their being gay had nothing to do with the skit and wasn't a punchline of any kind or an excuse to camp things up. It felt as thought the writers simply said, "Well, if an urban couple was having a few other couples over for dinner, one of them could very well be a gay couple" and that was that.
There's a great new British sketch show, That Mitchell and Webb Look, that seemed to me to do a similar thing recently. Both Mitchell and Webb are straight as far as I know, but gay-friendly (Webb played a gay character in the BBC comedy The Smoking Room). One of their one-off skits centred around what seemed to be a male couple - they weren't explicitly defined as such, but they were in their thirties, living together, and when one gets home the other asks "How was your day?" and it just feels very domestic. The cool thing was that that completely wasn't the point of the sketch - the point was that one of the (presumed) partners had an incredibly tough job as a doctor, and was doing a human rights degree on the side, while the other worked as an ice-cream tester. Hence the ice-cream tester feels incredibly stupid complaining about his day, since his problems basically consist of there not being enough Rocky Road, and things like that.
ETA: Here's the sketch - they definitely seem like a couple to me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgxc-INp47U
hilarious
Webb
Wide Stance
That was one of the funnier skits I've seen SNL do in a long time. I'm still laughng about the last line about Sen. Craig really having a wide stance.