A Middling Women's Billiards Sketch Infuriates A Loyal SNL Viewer

Here's the set-up: ESPN Classic is replaying a 1991 billiards match between Greta Milwaukee (Kristen Wiig) and "The Soft One" Nina Wilkes Booth (Drew Barrymore). Two clueless announcers give play-by-play, including multiple shout-outs to the event 's sponsor, Tampax.

It's got a few mild laughs and the ladies look sufficiently ridiculous, but it's not one for the books, good or bad.

It is, however, worth a look just to see what prompted the response at NBC.com from jrt3004. Here is the way over-the-top response in its unedited entirety:

wow - how offensive to the billiard community can you be? and that coming from one of the least funny shows on television. snl's glory days are long past. maybe on the next broadcast of a women's pool event espn can do a segment on how not funny your show is. i have been watching snl on and of for almost thirty years and you just made me sure i will never watch it again. and now i'll take the same low brow approach your network did in addressing a game i love and tell you - your show sucks.