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For literal decades, the writing staff of Saturday Night Live<\/em> has found the language and structure of pharmaceutical commercials to a gold mine for comedy sketches. (Say it with me: \u201cDo not taunt Happy Fun Ball.\u201d) So it wasn\u2019t surprising that this week\u2019s episode featured a sketch, starring host Ryan Gosling, that was structured as an ad for a medication called Otezla, which, the voiceover notes, can be used to treat plaque psoriasis.<\/p>\n

The gist of the sketch is that no one is entirely sure what Otezla is: not the people using it, not the scientists involved with its development and not the company tasked with selling it.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the sketch, various possibilities present themselves, each a little more unsettling than the last. It\u2019s possible that Otezla is some sort of keystone for human evolution, like the monoliths in 2001<\/em>. It\u2019s also possible that it\u2019s some sort of Lovecraftian entity that transcends the boundaries of space and time in ways that can destroy the minds of those who behold it. Or it could be an alien that just enjoys eating plaque psoriasis. No one\u2019s really sure.<\/p>\n

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Can narrative ambiguity be funny? The aforementioned \u201cHappy Fun Ball\u201d sketch is a classic, and \u2013 more recently, 2023\u2019s \u201cPongo\u201d also featured a mysterious being at its center and remains both incredibly funny and hugely disturbing. This sketch also makes good use of Gosling\u2019s enthustic screen presence without having to worry about his tendency to break during live sketches. That\u2019s one condition Otezla probably can\u2019t help with.<\/p>\n

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