"Saturday Night Live" Goes Really, Really Gay - And It's Not Bad At All

I guess 300 was the gayest movie to ever hit the theaters.

After being pretty much totally heterosexual for their 35th season, Saturday Night Live finally brought out the gay in a fairly big way Saturday night. They trained their satirical eye on Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and chose to hit it with everything they've got. This show is always hit-or-miss on their gay humor, so how'd they fare?

First up, we've got the gay, military edition of "Two Guys from New Jersey" sketch that they've been milking for a while. As guest on Weekend Update, they can neither confirm or deny they're gay, because of the policy.

They can, however, make a series of innuendo laden military references in disturbingly intense New Jersey accents. I could be wrong, but I didn't find it terribly funny or effective. And while I'm no expert on New Jersey, I really feel that residents of the state might have a case for defamation.

The second skit, making excellent use of Gerard Butler and his incredibly homoerotic movie 300, fared better, with Butler playing King Leonidas again. The rest of the cast, with their plastic abs, plays a cross between his soldiers, and the frustrated White House Press Corps.

They repeatedly ask him when he's going to fulfill his promise to repeal Sparta's Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He responds with the current administration's favorite lines about it being wartime, the economy, etc.

They have just slotted King Leonidas into the President Obama role - except by the end, Leonidas does the right thing and issues an Executive Order (err, decree) ending Don't Ask, Don't tell, only to discover his entire army is gay.

As satire, it's remarkably effective, and actually pretty funny, with almost every major Obama criticism from the right wing tossed in for a jab or two.

What did you think?