Satirical Analysis Of The Saturday Night Live Commercial

The Saturday Night Live “Pepsi” commercial was an example of satire because it met the qualifications to do so. Those qualities were talking about a serious social issue, interpreting it in a humorous way, and overall making a valid point. The satire sketch was referencing the Pepsi commercial that was released earlier this year. The commercial displays a protest that is in full motion on streets. People of all races can be seen as participants of this protest. Then, Kendall Jenner comes into the scene when walks out of the photo shoot she was doing straight into the mist of the protests. At the end, the protesters and policemen that are facing this large crowd come together when Kendall gives one of the police officers a Pepsi. At that point, everyone comes together …show more content…
The woman only hears the beginning of his commercial idea and tells him it’s just the worst idea he could come up. The director is finally realizing he is wrong and asks the women what he should do. At this point the commercial is about to be shot. The woman tells him to run but it’s too late, Kendall is already on set and is playing her role in the commercial as the director is in panic about what is about to happen. In my opinion, it was really funny how all the people he asked for their opinions about the commercial told him that it was a bad idea even though he thought it would be the best commercial of its time. Overall the satire sketch made a point because the commercial was offensive in the way they portrayed how protest are. Protests are nothing the way they made them seem. There is a lot of violence, vulgar language, and even death behind them. If they actually wanted to start a movement and make a change they should have shown the truth about protesting. From there they might have shown how even though were all different ethnicities we are all still the same, buy our food in the same grocery stores and maybe even drink the same beverages such as