I recently finished reading The Mist by Stephen King and it is a really good novella (actually would've loved it to be longer) but when I finished I was chuckling to myself because in the show, there is a "pansexual" character and in a stunning and brave scene the jock that bullies him turns out to be gay as well.
I was just imagining that some writer for the show said "despite it not being in the book, and really having nothing to do with the plot, lets add a pansexual character". The skits you could write to mock this mentality in Hollywood are endless. If SNL could go back to being equal opportunity with comedy they would have endless material. Another skit could be someone pitching a drama taking place in a small Norwegian village in 1500 and the first thing one of the Hollywood execs ask is why there aren't any blacks or latinos.
Not saying that there aren't funny things about the right or Trump, but after so many years it really isn't edgy to mock straight white men, Christians, or republicans.
I've done some writing but nothing more than poetry or a short story (sci-fi), and I've never done any comedy but I have an idea that kind of is inspired by The Producers (I love Mel Brooks) as a way to mock the race/gender swap obsession where a down on his luck white director follows the advice that there is no such thing as bad publicity and makes a miniseries about Shaka Zulu and casts a Scandinavian female with blonde hair and blue eyes to play Shaka Zulu. When the controversy starts, he reads from all the shill sites that praise race/gender swaps of historical figures during a press conference and then explains he is "reimagining a great African figure" and accuses the press of racism.
Like I said I have never written comedy so I may need to find a writing partner and I've gone over different ideas and stuff but one scene I have in my head is "Shaka Zulu" leading the Zulu nation into battle and social media exploding in anger. If I can think of something witty I can also throw in a slam against the Wheel of Time debacle. That showrunner is everything wrong with modern adaptations.
I can see that scene in a “reimagined” Moby Dick. There will be no whale. The whale will be the prevalence of white supremacy or something.
The crew will scream that a white whale is evidence of systemic racism, and that the white whale should use its privilege to amplify Black and Brown whale voices. They will replace the ship's flag with the rainbow pride flag.
When the ship is attacked by the whale, the crew will begin marching and chanting slogans on the deck, then light the crew's quarters on fire in protest.
The part of Ahab will be played by Patrice Cullors. When the ship starts to sink, she'll sneak off in a hidden life boat, and go live on an island she bought with the crew's wages.
You should submit the idea to Netflix. They are dumb enough to not realize you are mocking them.
If I threw in some prepubescent cabin girls twerking and a child drag queen, they'd probably start throwing stacks of money at me.
Ha! I didn’t think of that!
Mabe the whale was the hwite supremacists smolliet made up the whole time?!!