Believe it or not, Saturday Night Live turned 50 this year, and the original cast had me with the controversial word association skit (trigger warning) between Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor. Paul Mooney wrote the skit, which was notable because of Mooney’s hatred for Lorne Michaels and Pryor’s real-life disdain for Chase. The sketch has been cited in academic works on racism and is ranked as the 10th-best SNL sketch of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine. The parody is anti-racist in much the same way 1974’s “Blazing Saddles” was, though younger viewers may see it differently.
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