Tiger Woods parody on Saturday Night Live - good or bad?

Like the Saturday Night Live of old, the buzz for Monday will likely be the parody on Tiger Woods. There is controversy in this one, not only for what was done but also because of the celebrity guest - which was Rihanna.

In case you missed it, here is the skit in question



Now just looking at that, I think it was damn funny. It would have been funny if the guest on SNL was anyone. It's funny even though it's about "domestic abuse" as some like to call it.

But I think the controversy is overblown here. This is not making light of domestic abuse. The incident this is based on is not domestic abuse. Let's keep this focused on what it is. This is about a fight between a husband and wife - solely because the husband was caught cheating.

Couples of every description have fights from time to time (non-physical). More than a few members of any couple tend to cheat. These are facts as old as the world. And it is a fact that when the secret comes out, the other member of the couple is going to be pissed. That's not abuse, it's a natural reaction to the situation.

Rihanna was involved in domestic abuse. Chris Brown beat the hell out of her. There is no justification for this and it had no cause other than his own misguided and commoditized sense of what is a Black man. I stand by the thoughts I had on that and wrote about.

Now the SNL skit is what comedy is about. It takes a subject that is normally taboo and speaks about it in a broad sense. It twists the pathos and makes us smile where we might cringe. It's no different than the jokes about 9/11, or war, or anything else you can imagine.

The way Tiger has handled this private matter was bad from the start. SNL picked up on that and ran with it. And they did so in a tasteful manner in my opinion. But in a world of PC insanity, doing anything that any liberal might object to is tantamount to committing a crime. Which is a shame.

I think that if this skit were insensitive to Rihanna, she wouldn't have done the show. Or she would have said something about it. But neither is the case. As they shouldn't be.

But having seen the skit, what do you think? Is this just taking an unfortunate situation and making fun of it's comedic pearls or is it a slap in the face of a serious issue that remains largely unspoken?