While Wayne and Garth are listing the top ten things they like about Bill Clinton, you might notice in the clip on SNL’s official YouTube page that it skips from #3 straight to #1. That would be, because #2 is about Chelsea. According to Cracked, Wayne says, “adolescence has been thus far unkind” to then-12-year-old Chelsea, then goes on to note that he thinks she’s “going to be a future fox.”
Hillary Clinton commented on the joke in a Redbook interview, saying, “I think it’s sad that people don’t have anything better to do than be mean to a child… I’m going to do everything I can to help Chelsea be strong enough not to let what other people say about her affect her.” Bill Clinton added on in a People interview, saying he didn’t mind jokes about him on the show, “…but I think you gotta be pretty insensitive to make fun of an adolescent child.”
Mike Meyers reportedly wrote a personal letter apologizing to Chelsea and her parents, and Lorne Michaels himself issued a public apology.
