Saturday Night Live's recent "Man Park" sketch is hilarious satire, but it's actually a great idea. The 47th season of SNL saw one of its strongest guest host/musical act pairings this weekend with Jonathan Majors and Taylor Swift. While both were unsurprisingly great and a number of the episode's sketches were solid, one sketch in particular, "Man Park," generated a ton of buzz online thanks to it skewering a subject that is widespread but rarely talked about.

In the SNL sketch, a woman (Ego Nwodim) comes home to find her partner (played by Pete Davidson) sitting alone on the couch. The moment she gets home, he immediately starts bombarding her with conversation, from how he's feeling to random facts he learned that day. Another wife (Heidi Gardner) explains to the camera how, when she walks in the door, her husband (Alex Moffat) just "rockets information at [her] for 20 minutes straight," cutting to him babbling about football while she's trying gamely to listen and put groceries away. They both learn of a "man park," a park where women can bring their husbands and partners to meet other men so they form friendships, learn how to connect with someone other than their wives and girlfriends. From there, dozens of men played by SNL's cast members and others bond over things like Marvel, The Killers' "Mr. Brightside," football, and other things with the code phrase "rise and grind."

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The Saturday Night Live "Man Park" sketch is funny on its own, but it struck a chord on social media, with women weighing in on how true it is. A number of pieces in the past few years have been devoted to studying the phenomenon of male loneliness, including the way more and more women are becoming the sole emotional outlet for their male partners and husbands. One stand-out 2019 piece in Harper's Bazaar explored how men no longer understand how to form emotional bonds with other men and develop genuine friendships, and it's women who are bearing the burden of that. Though it's a phenomenon women have been aware of for years, the pandemic put a spotlight on the extra emotional labor too many men unwittingly expect their wives and girlfriends to perform. So while the "Man Park" sketch is an absurd one worthy of becoming a new SNL meme on the surface, the concept of a place where men can go to simply make friends and forge connections outside their romantic relationships is actually really brilliant.

The best SNL sketches are sharp satire, which is what makes "Man Park" not only funny, but also an incisive skewering of the hidden epidemic of toxic masculinity and how it hurts both women and men. Says Heidi Gardner's character of her husband's infodump, "All the words come out fast and in the wrong order because he hasn't spoken to anyone else that day." Ego Nwodim's girlfriend begs, "I need you to go outside the house and make a friend so you talk to other people about this stuff and not just me." SNL standout Cecily Strong gets to the heart of it as the man park ad narrator: "It's not their fault masculinity makes intimacy so hard."

Like the best satire, there's an element of sadness and discomfort in the truth behind the jokes. When one guy (Andrew Dismukes) learns another guy (Aristotle Athari) at the man park loves Bo Burnham, he's so overcome that he immediately grabs the other guy in a hug and asks him to be his best man. It's an absurd moment in the "Man Park" sketch, but underscores how desperate so many men are to make a genuine connection with another guy that they'll latch on to even the most minor of shared interests. Of course, that's not to say all men in relationships are like this and don't have friends, or even most. Still, the SNL season 47 sketch is memorable for a reason. When a social and cultural issue becomes widespread enough to be the topic of a Saturday Night Live sketch, it's one worth paying attention to.

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