SNL skit lampoons character with disabilities
October 15th, 2008
It’s the Lawrence Welk show all over again on Saturday Night Live (video here), but with a difference.
Kristin Wiig appears as a member of a singing group that looks a lot like the Lennon sisters, complete with big hair and voluminous chiffon 
skirts.
But when the camera comes in for a closeup, it reveals that Wiig’s “Judice” has physical deformities — an abnormally large forehead and tiny, doll-sized hands.
There’s also more than a suggestion of intellectual disabilities here. As her three sisters (led by Anne Hathaway) sing conventional lyrics about boyfriends and butterflies, Wiig’s character sings about chasing cars, eating a dead cat she found in the road, and finding love “with my by myself.”
Readers: Funny? Not funny?
(Photos from Saturday Night Live video)
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January 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 am
That skit was absolutely hilarious. Nobody was harmed, insulted or mocked.
“More than 50 million people in the United States have disabilities, a number that is growing rapidly as the population ages”. Exactly what constitutes a disability to you? Roughly one in six people in America have a disability? Not even close.
Inflating numbers, or using a grossly broad definition of “disability” does a great harm to the very people you are attempting to be an advocate for.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I thought it was soooooo funny ………… its not like it was directed to disabled people!!!!!
October 27th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
This is hilarious. I have a close family member with disabilities and even she laughed at this skit. Kristen Wiig delivers a performance that does what SNL was created to do, make people laugh! She is not making fun of anyone just playing a character that we all begin to like while making us roll on the floor in laughter. Take a chill pill and enjoy the common hilarity. Don’t be such a tight a**.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Extremely funny! I was dying laughing the entire time. I think you took it a little too seriously…
October 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Not even slightly funny. What the **** were they thinking?