SNL most relevant new character a fed up HR rep fielding constant sexual harassment

SNL most relevant new character a fed up HR rep fielding constant sexual harassment.
“It's been a crazy week,” Cecily Strong’s newest SNL character said, rolling onto the Weekend Update set with a stray receipt on her face and frantic glint in her eye. “I haven't been home in three days.” Her panic is understandable when you realize she’s playing an HR rep trying desperately to stay ahead of the wave (after wave, after wave) of sexual harassment and assault cases crowding the news.
“I’m just here to do a little quiz,” she told Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost, shuffling some papers. “First question is about office romance, not a big deal, we know it all happens. So what is the appropriate way to handle a workplace relationship? A, inform someone at HR? B, lock her in a room and make her look at it? Or C, bully her out of the entire industry?”
“I’m going to say A,” Jost replied, to Strong’s immediate relief.
“You would be surprised how many people get that wrong,” she said, the shadows of Louis C.K. (B) and Harvey Weinstein (C) looming over the punchline. “It could almost make you lose your mind.”
Then she was onto the second question, featuring a visual aid of a woman in a business professional outfit. “You run into your coworker at the office. Is she, A, giving you a seductive look that says hey come get this? B, she said no in the past but that little skirt is saying yes, yes, me horny? Or C, she is living her life and it has nothing to do with you?”
 “I'm going to say C,” Jost said, prompting Strong to immediately shout, “YES, LEAVE HER ALONE.”
“I'm sorry, are you mad at me?” Jost said, laughing nervously.
Yes, I think I actually am a little,” Strong said, speaking for fed up womankind. “It's hard to explain.”
The third question quizzed Jost (and anyone who still supports Roy Moore for Alabama Senate) on when it’s appropriate to have a relationship with a 14 year-old; he aced it by responding, “never.”
But the most cutting part of the entire segment might have been when Strong’s character signed off — or, more accurately, threw her hands up in exasperation and admitted she probably wouldn’t be gone for long.
“I will probably be back next week and the week after that forever and ever,” she said, “because this isn't just a scandal. It didn't just start this week. It's just actual reality for half of the population.”


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Larry David is the latest celebrity to apologize—for his bad jokes

Comedian Larry David last night, Nov. 11, offered a tacit apology for jokes made during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live (SNL) last week, in which he made light of concentration camps.

David, who is Jewish, admitted his jokes lacked taste during an SNL skit in which he played US senator Bernie Sanders. The character, along with other impersonators of Democratic Party leaders, were speaking about how they would seize the national political narrative following the bruising defeat of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election.

“And we are going to lace into people if they don’t say what’s politically correct, like these comics out there who think it’s okay to make jokes about concentration camps,” David said, giving his best Sanders impression. “That guy should rot in hell.”

David’s controversial monologue remarks were made as he bemoaned recent sexual harassment allegations out of Hollywood, including of Harvey Weinstein, saying: “I couldn’t help but notice a very disturbing pattern emerging, which is that many of the predators are Jews.” He went on to joke about pick-up lines in concentration camps, something that caught the ire of the Anti-Defamation League, which called the monologue “offensive, insensitive and unfunny all at same time.”

David’s acknowledgement of the controversy is juxtaposed against other Hollywood figures, including Kevin Spacey and Louis CK, who have issued apologies of their own for sexual harassment allegations.