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SNL Finally Targets Harvey Weinstein: 'He Doesn't Need Rehab,' He Needs 'Prison'
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Jen Chung
Published Oct 15, 2017
Modified Oct 15, 2017
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After reports that Saturday Night Live abandoned mentioning Harvey Weinstein last weekend, two days after the bombshell NY Times report about his pattern of settling sexual harassment allegations, the sketch comedy show was much more aggressive this week.
On Weekend Update, Michael Che shot down Weinstein's claim that he made "mistakes": "No, man. A mistake is me walking into the wrong bathroom and using it anyway because I was crowning. He assaulted dozens of women. That's not a mistake. That's a full season of Law & Order. Your name's a verb now, dude. As in, 'If this guy tries to Weinstein me, I'm going to cut off his little Harvey.'
"Doesn’t he look like a well-dressed skin tag?" Che added. Earlier, he had also described Weinstein as looking like "chewed bubblegum rolled in cat hair."
Colin Jost also questioned Weinstein's jaunt to a sex addiction treatment center, "He doesn't need sex rehab. He needs a specialized facility where there are no women, no contact with the outside world, metal bars — and it's a prison."
The female perspective was raised during a film actresses panel discussion—which meant another appearance by Debette Goldry (Kate McKinnon), the old Hollywood star whose past revelations showed the sexism inherent in the movie industry. Goldry revealed, "There's a secret code to warn each other about creeps. The code was, 'He raped me.' That way, if any men were listening, they'd tune us right out."
Goldry also had her own Harvey Weinstein anecdote, "I did have one meeting with Harvey. He invited me to his hotel room and when I arrived he was naked, hanging upside down from a monkey bar. Trying to trick me into thinking his genitals were his face. It almost worked, the resemblance was uncanny."
She added, "Having a lady in the family doesn't make you some kind of hero. I mean, even Hitler had a sister. Paula Hitler. Shy girl."
During the 2016 SNL with Margot Robbie, the Debette Goldry sketch also discussed the casting couch culture; Goldry said, "I once had an audition where the producer said to me, 'Have sex with me and I'll give you the part.'... [so] I had sex with him and he gave me the part."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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