So, um, did you guys happen to see that sketch just now on SNL
where Ellen Page was playing a young girl jumping around so excited
about a Melissa Etheridge concert and then it turned out that she might
have gone gay at the concert, and she totally mimed grabbing a lady
with her legs and it was funny, and then that Dick-in-a-Box guy was all
like "Well, I'll love you just the same if you are gay" and they like
hugged and that was it? Like, it. As in the sketch was over. Heck, the whole show was over.
Was that supposed to mean something? Like, was it supposed to make us think something about something? The last SNL sketch we remember with an ending like that was that hysterical
one from 1985 where Oprah and Danitra Vance talked about abortion, and
we're pretty sure we're supposed to have thought quite deeply about
something after that. So maybe this one too? Or not. Are we being
confusing? 'Cause we're totally confused. (Also, we're kidding about
that Oprah sketch being hysterical. It was interminable.)
Oh, and did you see this also?
So, seriously: what just happened? A grudging
acknowledgement? A full-on response? Or something more? Or was it
maybe just like so many other weeks on SNL: an
incomprehensible, mostly unfunny final sketch. We have no idea, and
frankly might never have even brought up the question of Ellen Page's
sexuality without something dramatic happening. Like what maybe just
happened. Or not. Yeah, we're confused. Thoughts?
(And yes, in case you're wondering -- we just had to blog about this the minute it happened. We officially have no life.)
UPDATE:
Video via the fine folks at Wired News, who seem to think that the
point of the sketch was that it doesn't matter whether she's gay or
straight -- which we totally agree with, but have to say that this
sketch as written does clear that point up so much as it muddies those
waters. Have a look after the jump and let us know what you think.
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