What do you call Saturday Night Live trope where a crazy character doesn’t convince, and it’s so funny because it’s so obvious, and is that the whole joke? I can’t think of another example in my head, but I know that in my heart it is something. In this week’s weekend update, Kate McKinnon gave a hilarious example of this, as Stephanie Green, the member of QAnon who is just a normal Ohio girl who works in an office with coffee and pencils. But in fact, she’s a fairytale witch, with a prosthetic chin and everything, and follows QAnon because they keep claiming that celebrities are part of a global child-eating conspiracy, and she openly wants to know where the kids are. devourers she can go and eat some children. Because she is a witch. And her house is made of candy. And she likes children of all kinds: “boys, girls, barbecue, cool ranch”. Much of what makes this effective is how much McKinnon is having fun playing this type of cartoon character, with his shaky voice and hand gestures. But it also shows how absurd and ridiculous it is that there are huge factions of Republican Party voters who believe in these types of fantastic and outspoken medieval conspiracy theories. Anyway, even a 400-year-old witch can say that these QAnon people may just be following fake bread crumbs. She should have known. This is some Hansel and Gretel shit, right here.
