The women of Saturday Night Live and guest host Saoirse Ronan banded together to tackle the influx of sexual misconduct allegations in a sketch titled Welcome to Hell.
Ronan, Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant performed the upbeat song on what could pass as a Katy Perry music video set, giving the sketch a cheerful, bubblegum tone despite its dark subject matter.
Its freaky, its nasty, its button-under-the-desk bad, the women sing, referencing the button Matt Lauer had to lock his office door. But this is our hometown, well show you around. Welcome to hell. Now were all in here. Look around, isnt it nice? Its a full nightmare.
After the women sing about their trepidation walking home alone and societys lack of response to sexual harassment over the previous centuries, Leslie Jones appears to inform the women As bad as it is for you, its like a million times worse for women of color before joining the quartet.
Now House of Cards is ruined, and that really sucks, well heres a list of stuff thats ruined for us: Parking and walking and Uber and ponytails, bathrobes and nighttime and drinking and hotels and vans, the women sing.
During the Weekend Update, anchor Colin Jost talked about this weeks batch of predators. Its just a whole segment of the news now. You just got to announce the names every week like Powerball numbers, Jost said before taking aim at Russell Simmons, Garrison Keillor and, most notably, Matt Lauer: