Don Roy King (director) | Porn Doctor (The Doctor Is in My Butt 4) / 2016 [TV (SNL) episode]

serious medical attention

by Douglas Messerli

 

Don Roy King (director) Porn Doctor (The Doctor Is in My Butt 4) / 2016 [4.50 minutes] [TV (SNL) episode]

 

On this January 17, 2016 episode of Saturday Night Live, Adam Driver performed or was at least

trying to perform the role of a porn doctor, Doctor Rockhard, concentrated on his hunky patient’s (Beck Bennett) problems with his upper thighs. Rockhard quickly finds the problem and is busy “handling” the situation when an unexpected patient (Aidy Bryant) intrudes, explaining that she is quite ill and she and her mother have been waiting quite a long time.

    Rockhard attempts to get rid of her as soon as possible, but even before she’s out of the room, she overhears the doctor explaining that there might be other ways to pay for the necessary operations of the mouth procedures and other medical insertions, the patient being a bottom, the doctor the top(s). Bryant explains that perhaps he can also find a way to help her and her mother, since their insurance doesn’t kick in until the next month.

    Even the confused Porn Doctor explains that, well perhaps he can work out something with her mother, but, no, the overweight teen who is evidently in deep pain is not someone he can operate on without insurance and assurances moreover from his crew.

     The skit keeps trying to return to the porn film obviously being taped, and her intrusions are becoming a problem as the skit talks about everything from “blue balls” to how he might make his patient’s groin even “more sore.” The medical talk, she proclaims, is way over her head, particularly when a group of muscular medical doctors (Taran Killam, Kyle Mooney, Pete Davidson, and Jon Rudnitsky) join in the joyful search for a cure to all the problems that the poor football-playing patient and each other have long been suffering.

     This is a gay skit worthy of the best of the SNL series, which seldom worried about the consequences of their bawdy gay humor

 

Los Angeles, December 26, 2024

Reprinted from My Queer Cinema (December 2024).