Saturday Night Live's ability to be funny started to really disappear when the show decided there are just some things you don't poke fun at, and the vast majority of those things happen to be things people on the left consider a sacred cow. 

For instance, the LGBT community. Making fun of gay or trans people isn't exactly something SNL would do anymore, at least not in a way that would actually result in a funny joke. So you can bet that I was beyond surprised when this skit popped up on my feed, and posted by NBC itself. 

The skit revolves around two gay men suddenly coming into possession of a baby, and two hetero couples trying to get down to the bottom of how they got said baby. As the skit goes on, the gay couple does their absolute best to avoid answering the question, throwing up arguments and feigning outrage behind a shield of political correctness. 

The skit has all the typical hallmarks of an SNL skit, like lines that go slightly blue. 

"You guys said after dinner you were going to a rave called 'Bulge Dungeon,' and now you have a baby." 

The conversation gets comedically heated, with the couple saying that they didn't plan on having a baby, it just happened by accident, prompting one of the women to ask, "How does a gay couple have a baby by accident?" 

The skit goes on to suggest that the gay couple actually stole the baby.

It even ends on a transgender joke about pronouns. 

some questions are better left unasked pic.twitter.com/mM8ScZdtRJ

— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) April 13, 2025

I had to go through the skit twice to make sure I heard it right, but yeah. It was an actual skit making fun of gay adoption, where the straight men in the bit were the straight men, and the people being mocked were the gay couple. 

At one point, I even made sure to check this didn't come from Babylon Bee, which I feel like this skit would have been comfortably featured from that group. 

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but SNL really created something funny. 

There's a raging debate about the ethics of a gay couple "adopting" a newborn baby as I write this, but I don't think SNL was making a comment about that. This doesn't feel like they were weighing in on one side or the other, but it does feel like they were taking cues from that debate and making a joke about it. 

And to be honest, I think that's a step in the right direction for SNL. The best comedy is that which lampoons everyone equally, no matter what side they're on, and when you stop doing it to one side, the "comedy" becomes formulaic, rigid, and ultimately, unfunny. SNL had fallen into that issue for years, and I would argue is still there despite this skit. 

That said, I'm incredibly surprised a skit like this made it out of the writers' room and past the producers. The optimist in me is hoping this means we're seeing the beginnings of a new era of SNL where they're free to make fun of everyone, but I'm not going to hold my breath. 

One good skit doesn't make for a turning tide on the show. The show is still staffed to the gills with dyed-in-the-wool leftists and doesn't seem to have a lot of diversity where it counts: the mind. 

We'll see. In the meantime, good on SNL for actually making me laugh. 

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