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Last week I put up a post concerning a skit on NBC's Saturday Night Live, where the whole "joke" was making fun of a disabled person.

Well NBC thinks it's so funny they have the clip up on the SNL web site.

I just registered to make comments, and posted one myself.

I invite others to do the same.

Sorry there's no picture for this post. I'm rushing off to work.

SNL and Disability-Not Pretty

So I tuned in to Saturday Night Live on Saturday evening (mostly to see what they would do after the Vice-Presidential debate this last week).

They had a very funny opening, and a couple of good bits. Then they did this "Lawrence Welk" bit:



It started out OK. I am old enough to remember going to my grandparents' house as a kid, and being forced to watch the Lawrence Welk Show whenever it was on. It was corny even back then, and seemed a fitting thing to lampoon. Then it got to about the 2 minute mark, where it appeared that the essence of the bit was how weird and disgusting the physically disabled sister was.

I was totally disgusted. I guess that it's still OK to laugh at the disabled, even if you're SNL.