A Saturday Night Live skit satirizes the change that has come to Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Jenny Kutner shares news of the skit, featuring Keenan Thompson, Jay Pharaoh, and Kevin Hart. The satire is built around fictional anecdotes involving, among other episodes, artisanal mayonnaise, acoustic guitar, "you time," and a dog walking business.
The safe bet for quote most like to repeat itself in the future: "You're acting like somebody put gluten in your muffin."
The skit uses a few vulgar words and doesn’t flinch from the racism that fuels so much concern about gentrification. The latter point is made most clearly by two signifiers of how things haven't changed. The entire skit is found below.
FULL STORY: “SNL” brilliantly tackles gentrification: “You’re acting like someone put gluten in your muffin”
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