After a week of much-contested silence, Saturday Night Live finally returned to the screen with a biting spoof on Harvey Weinstein's series of sexual assault allegations. In a sketch in the form of an actress roundtable, featuring Leslie Jones as Viola Davis, Cecily Strong as Marion Cotillard, and Kate McKinnon as Debette Goldry--a fictional actress who has lived through Hollywood's worst era's for women. "Back then, we had a secret code among us actresses to warn each other about creeps," McKinnon quipped. "The code was: he raped me." McKinnon continued, saying, "That way, if any men were listening, they would tune us right out!"
This came after the previous week's episode was noticeably devoid of Weinstein references, leading to a wave of criticism speculating that the show would be more partial to liberals than conservatives. While representatives of the show explained last week that the jokes they had written were removed because they simply "didn't land," it's clear that, for whatever reason, the Weinstein spoofs this week packed a punch. The writers certainly didn't have a lack for material: just Saturday afternoon, the Oscar board voted to remove Weinstein's lifetime membership in an unprecedented move.
“I actually did have one meeting with Harvey, OK. I was invited to his hotel room, and when I arrived, he was naked, hanging upside down from a monkey bar," McKinnon's Goldry recalls. "He tried to trick me into thinking that his genitals were actually his face. It almost worked, the resemblance is uncanny.” Beyond Weinstein's own actions, also the public response following the exposé's were addressed. As more and more men condemned Weinstein using the phrase that they were "fathers of daughters," McKinnon hit back with a characteristically incisive response: "Having a woman in your family doesn’t make you some kind of hero. I mean, even Hitler had a sister."
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