It looks like Saturday Night Live has done it again when it comes to making us laugh and feel heard at the same time. Christmas is fast approaching, and the guidelines have not really changed on how we should be celebrating the holidays. Families are being advised to not travel or gather in large groups to help stop the spread of COVID-19. While this is for the health and safety of everyone involved, it still hurts. However, it probably hurts no one more than it hurts a mom who can’t have her children over for a big turkey dinner.
When moms have to make the difficult call to their own mom to say that they won’t be coming home for the holidays, it may involve understanding, and just a side dish amount of guilt. That does mean after all, that the grandchildren would not be coming either.
The popular comedy sketch show put on a skit about how those ‘Christmas Conversations’ would go and it was hilarious and relatable. The skit was shared on Newsbreak as well as Twitter. The skit involves three women, played by Lauren Holt, Ego Nwodim and Chloe Fineman, and they are all calling their moms to give them the bad news. The moms are played by Heidi Garner, Punkie Johnson and Kate McKinnon. After all the niceties play out, involving a lot of “miss yous” the bad news is broken to the moms.
The moms respond in a way that we would all expect them to. They start off the response by saying that it is OK, and that the only thing that matters is that they are safe, but then it takes a sharp right turn. One mom says that since her daughter is not coming home, she will just throw her stocking in the fire. Another mom tells her daughter to just say the words ‘I don’t love you’ because that would likely be less painful.
Even some dads joined the conversation, we see you Jason Bateman, to tell their child to have a heart because this is their mother. A lot of the responses to the video on Twitter were full of people who understand and said that the skit hit a little too close to home for them. Showing that there are a lot of families going through this situation right now, and are being guilted by their own mother.
Punkie Johnson delivered her line while holding a large, and intimidating knife, said that she would talk to her daughter later, when she had “changed her damn mind.” At the end of the clip, they did put in a disclaimer and a reminder that we would all be together again one day and to stay safe.