Posted on 05/08/2022 12:42:00 AM PDT by Morgana
Saturday Night Live traveled back in time to the 13th century to mock Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s perspective on abortion rights. The sketch comes just days after a draft opinion on Roe v. Wade was leaked, causing panic that legalized abortion could come to an end.
In the opening of the spoof, a narrator declared that “no woman has a right to an abortion and abortion is a crime.”
“He cites a treatise from the 13th Century about the quickening of the foetus, and a second treatise that says that if the quick child dieth in her body, it would a great misprision. We go now to that profound moment of moral clarity almost a thousand years ago which laid such a clear foundation for what our law should be in 2022,” says the narrator of Alito’s opinion.
Soon after, host Benedict Cumberbatch appeared as a medieval figure with two other lawmakers (Andrew Dismukes and James Austin Johnson) to debate whether they should pass a law to ban abortion rights. “We should have a law that could stand the test of time, so that hundreds and hundreds of years from now, they will look back and say, ‘No need to update this one at all. They nailed it back in 1235,'” he declares.
Then Cecily Strong stepped in wearing period garb to question the men’s perspective on abortion. “Shouldn’t women have the right to choose, since having a baby means a 50 percent chance of dying?” she asks.
Later, a Merlin-like Kate McKinnon appeared as “just a woman in her thirties” who could see the future.
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very lame
SNL hasn't been funny since the Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman days.
Weeknight comedy has been dead for years. Why should weekend comedy be any different?
Yuck.
Go woke, get lousy ratings.
This is not the first time in recent history they’ve gone this route. I can’t imagine people go to comedy for laughs about abortion.
Grew up watching SNL from 1975+. The Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Dennis Miller days were the last of the funnies in the 90s for that show.
FSNL.
There are no words to describe that.
I so miss Gilda Radner she was soooooo funny. Roseanne Rosanna Danna would never have talked about abortion.
Lame is very accurate. I’m sad I can’t get my time back.
Snl is not a comedy show any more than any of the late night shows are now.
They are political commentary. Leftist. Satire.
There is nothing funny about abortion.
Gilda trivia. Her first husband was SNL band leader GE Smith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._Smith?msclkid=90d2073acebb11ecb7c1cbae6e2d9e68
They occasionally have a couple of funny sketches every few years that have nothing to do with issues or politics.These may be worth your time;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBcG5tOURuM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv6FMEvNiWo
In the same way that the left grossly mischaracterized Florida's law by calling it the "Don't Say Gay Bill," the Left is trying to say that the leaked Supreme Court ruling is outlawing abortion when it does nothing of the sort.
The leaked ruling explains in great detail that the Supreme Court has no Constitutional basis to rule on abortion law, and that right reverts to the states.
Does not sound remotely funny.
SNL still exists?
Oh, for the days when the vomitorium sketch was funny
This stuff ain’t
If anyone wants to actually learn about the medieval criminalization of abortion, this is the book to read: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501713651/the-criminalization-of-abortion-in-the-west/#bookTabs=1
Those both were wildly funny. Thank you for providing them.
Pfft...Radner, Akroyd, Murray, Curtin, Newman, Belushi and Chase. They were the last greats.
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