SNL’s Paterson Parody… Funny or Crossing The Line?
Posted in Entertainment on Dec 16th, 2008
Here’s the skit.
In my opinion, the skit itself isn’t very funny. That said, I think Governor Paterson is being over-sensitive about it.
Paterson and advocates for the visually impaired didn’t appreciate stock blind jokes that had Armisen pretending to be disoriented and wandering aimlessly.
“I can take a joke,” Paterson told reporters.
But he called the SNL spoof a “third-grade depiction of people and the way they look” that could lead others to believe that “disability goes hand-in-hand with an inability to run a government or business.”
Now, I saw the skit just before blogging this… I didn’t find it to be any more insulting to Paterson than Saturday Night Live is to anyone else they mock.
