When parody becomes reality.
Saturday Night Live’s main function is to comment on our present reality. But it turns out that, much like The Simpsons, NBC’s long-running TV show might have actually predicted the future. As New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff has pointed out on Twitter, a sketch from early 2020 that parodied how soap operas might film in the time of social distancing is no longer just a comedic fantasy.