Using Hep C for a joke!

[gene53]

I was watching Saturday Night Live last night and there was a skit where they had one of the actress's  dressed up like a drug addict and say I have Hep C like that was supposed to be funny.
I realize this is a comedy show but that just kind of freaked me out a bit using Hep C as a joke. I know I have other things to be more concerned with like my upcoming treatment for Hep C but that just kind of blew me away to use this horrible HCV in a comedy skit.
It's no joke to me and I don't think it's to funny to anyone doing the treatments and so on.

What do you think about that????????????

Gene

[Dee1956]

After trying to get my own family the seriousness of this virus and my need to treat; getting no where with them or friends, I  come here for support, compassion, caring and support
People do not understand.  We need a Rock Hudson or a Liz Taylor

So sorry
Happy Holidays
Dee

[ceecee444]

Hummm just watched can't say that I am please with the show or NBC for making a joke of Hep c as we all know IT'S NOT A JOKE ...shame on them all

[shelby02]

Gene..you read my mind...I was just about to post on the SNL skit from last night.. I love comedies, but as I have been sick on the couch watching TV while going thru 3x tx, I have seen no less than 4 prime time shows make a joke out of HepC. They always portray an 'unclean' person who is someone to avoid. It hurt every time -  I have had this disease for 12yrs and have had to hide my diagnosis from all but my closest family- the media has created such a stigma, that it makes it hard for people w/HCV to reach out for support. I have such compassion for all of us.

[candyce1953]

That is terrible we should draft a group letter to the station and the show
It is the stigma that stops treatment and education about the disease

[Willy50]

In general the skit was funny.  The Hep C thing fell flat for me.

I found in great that they mocked Russell Brand and rather odd that given he used Hep C as a punchline in his monologue/monotonolouge.

I found Brand's reference both factually and politically incorrect and injurious.  This one much less so.  Lame or flat ; oh yeah.

willy

[gene53]

Ya, I agree better awareness for HCV would be Great. It just seemed to me like as jules mentioned if it were a parody making light of Breast Cancer or Aids, or something similar would that have been funny too?

I know, I know, I need to lighten up!!!  Agreed!!!

Gene

P.S. I think I heard something about one of the Alman Brothers doing a Hep C awareness concert or something this year.