SNL Skit on "Heroin AM"
I've watched Saturday Night Live since it began in the 1970s. I can't say I thought every skit was funny or appropriate or inoffensive, but I have a high tolerance for satire.
I just sent shot off an email to NBC after seeing their oh-so-funny ad for "Heroin AM."
This was WAY over the top, by any standard. Why is it okay to make fun of heroin addiction? Do they make fun of AIDS? Cancer? Lead poisoning? Child abuse? Why is drug addiction still so stigmatized that it's okay to JOKE about it while people are dying, struggling to keep living, and in the deepest pain imaginable in loving someone who's addicted to heroin?
Who the hell still thinks heroin addiction is a JOKE?!???
I am so mad I can't see straight.