Watching the Aussie Open, I got ideas for SNL skits...

There's an Arab woman who's playing now in the quarterfinals. She's from Tunisia and they say she is of Arab descent. Not many players of Arab descent have ever gotten this far at a Grand Slam. Which gives me an idea for a skit i would love to see Saturday Night Live do. Suppose a player from Afghanistan broke into professional women's tennis and she started entering WTA tournament events, including Grand Slams? Because women in Afghanistan, which is controlled by the Taliban, have to wear birkas for everything they do, this Afghan woman at the Australian Open and French Open and Wimbledon and the U.S. Open plays all her matches wearing a birka. Because she has to. Her culture requires it, her religion requires it, her government requires it. Of course, at Wimbledon the birka would have to be white, but still, it's a birka. And this woman is really good and wins matches pretty regularly, but nobody ever sees her, except for her eyes through that little slit in her birka that she has to look through, of course. And so there's a controversy in every tournament she enters about whether this woman running all over the tennis court in a birka really IS the same woman every time. How could anybody be sure? Including fans, tournament officials, the tennis talking heads, everybody. SNL, please do this skit.

I got another idea watching the ball kids. The agile, nimble, speedy boys and girls who run around all over the tennis court chasing down tennis balls. As I said, they're all agile, nimble, quick, they chase down those tennis balls very quickly with minimal disruption to the pacing of the tennis match. Which is what they're supposed to do, it's what they're hired for. BUT ... suppose somebody complained about age discrimination in the hiring of the ball chasers? Suppose somebody who is NOT young, agile and quick decided s/he wanted something to occupy his/her ample free time in his/her retirement years? And applied for one of these jobs? And complained of age discrimination when he/she doesn't get the job? Maybe even sues because of the age discrimination and wins? And the tennis tournament has to hire this old, creaky, slow person to chase down the balls on the court? Larry David, who does Bernie Sanders in SNL skits, would be perfect in this role. SNL, please do this skit. I know y'all would do it right and it would be hilarious.

-- Ron