I was in this Saturday Night Live episode once...

Recently I felt like I was on the dying half hour of SNL. You know, this is the witching hour when the jokes are as good as growing genetalia from your forehead.

But instead it was a consultation exercise on Racism & Security issues. A former candidate for public office was there to enlighten us on such subject areas. This included inciteful comments as:

• the more educated people are generally the less racist they are
• more established groups are less prone to be targets of racism
• being tired of seeing foreign trained engineers, doctors, lawyers and sex trade workers unable to use their professional qualifications in the Canadian workforce
• the struggles Chinese, Japanese, First Nations and other immigrant groups have had to go through

No laughter followed: just the stunned silence you get on SNL before the second time the band-o'-the-night comes out to rock the crowd. . . .