<em>SNL</em> Couldn’t Help Itself
The Oscars Slap was low-hanging comedic fruit, and the show lunged at it. But there was nothing left to say.
Six days after came to dominate America’s cultural conversation, joined the fray with not just one joke but a torrent of them. Perhaps this was inevitable: The now-infamous pop-culture moment—an attack on a comedian, no less—is clearly within ’s wheelhouse, and the show latched on to the moment with zeal. But it was too much, too late. After a week in which every opinion has, struggled to find anything fresh to say.
