SNL Very Unfunny Skit

[Shana A]

SNL Makes Fun of Trans Women... Really, SNL?
Filed by: Alex Blaze
January 30, 2011 5:30 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2011/01/snl_makes_fun_of_trans_women_really_snl.php

Last week I posted a difficult-to-parse series of jokes about transsexual women in The Simpsons, and today a reader emailed in this sketch from SNL. It's hard to figure out what the joke is here other than "Look at these dudes in dresses! Haw haw!"

I'm thinking the text is misleading if you're looking for the actual joke - straight boys seem to have a need to see men dressing in women's clothes at some point in their lives (gay boys, by contrast, add some glamor and call it drag). I'm not thinking that the problem with this sketch is the fact that male actors are wearing dresses, at least not by itself.

[tekla]

Yeah, lets go back to making fun of Sara Palin, we don't like her so that makes it OK.

[Dana Lane]

Yeah, lets go back to making fun of Sara Palin, we don't like her so that makes it OK.

You think it is the same thing?

[Vicky]

There are reasons that I do not have a television in my house.  This is no incentive for me to change that fact.