Sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” did a bit that mentioned Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro in a segment about a college student whose parents overreacted to him getting an earring.
The bit was part of the latest episode that aired this past Saturday, December 7. In it, a mother and father welcome their college-aged son (Paul Mescal) home for the holidays but react in horror when they realize he has gotten his ear pierced.
When his parents express their disdain for the earring, the son asks, “What’s the big deal?”
“What’s the big deal? Let me answer that question with another question,” the mother replies. “What’s the big deal if I came home one day with skeleton hands tattooed around my neck?”
“Yeah, what’s the big deal?” the father adds. “Maybe I’ll show up to work tomorrow naked? Tell my boss, no it’s OK. My son has an earring. We’re all free, man.”
After the son says the earring is “cool,” the parents continue throwing out ridiculous suggestions that they equate to getting an earring, such as peeing on the floor and shooting a goat.
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Next, the son suggests that his parents might be upset because they think he’s gay, which he denies, then calls them “extremely homophobic.”
The parents get even more upset, and the father says, “Poli sci major got us good. Oh, college student owns Ben Shapiro.”
“You think we’re homophobic? Your father has been gay for 15 years,” the mother retorts.
The bit continues with the parents becoming more and more upset, going as far as throwing grandma out the window and resorting to self-harm until the bit ends with their second son arriving home from college. The joke is that he’s dressed in all black and has facial piercings, but the father says, “Oh well that’s different, I mean, he looks good.”
The same episode of “SNL” was slammed for making jokes about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson during the “Weekend Update” segment.
The episode mocked the NYPD for not having a suspect in custody at the time. Segment host Colin Jost also said, “It really says something about America that a guy was murdered in cold blood and the two main reactions were, ‘Yeah, well, healthcare stinks!’ And also, ‘Girl, that shooter hot.’”
