‘Saturday Night Live’ - Strip tease
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 by Albert ChingFrom this past Saturday’s episode of “Saturday Night Live,” hosted by Ashton Kutcher:
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What exactly is the point of this sketch? To point out that paralyzed people, indeed, cannot use their limbs? To mock them for daring to dream of having a normal life? I’m all for dark humor, or even mean humor, as long as it’s funny and more importantly has a point to it (like your average “South Park,” for example) but this sketch seems to exist solely to mock disabled people, especially when the strip club patrons are disgusted simply by being anywhere near her (poor Casey Wilson. unless she wrote this sketch.). If there was a sketch about a burn victim, and all there was to the sketch was people vomiting every time they saw him, would that be acceptable? What a weird target to go after. I haven’t seen much outrage over this online, but I’m guessing it’s just because people with disabilities are still an “invisible” minority, and don’t have much of a lobby.

