Did 'SNL' Go Too Far With The 'Meet Your Second Wife' Sketch?

Making audiences uncomfortable since '75.

"Saturday Night Live" has a history of gutsy sketches, but did this weekend's Amy Poehler and Tina Fey helmed affair push the envelope too far?

In a sketch titled "Meet Your Second Wife," Poehler and Fey host a game show that introduces three "happily married men" to their future second wives. One by one, the unsuspecting husbands watch as increasingly younger girls are paraded on stage in front of their current spouses.

And by young, we mean really young. When Bobby Moynihan's 12-year-old second wife walks on stage, his horrified expression encapsulates our reaction to the creepy -- albeit hilarious -- sketch.

Moynihan refuses to believe that he would ever leave his wife, let alone for an underage girl, until Fey asks, "But what if I told you that in a few years one of your novels becomes a surprise bestseller and is even optioned for a movie?”

“Oh yeah, then yeah, no, I get it now,” he immediately responds.

Next, a 5-year-old girl and then an unborn fetus are presented as the future wives of the last two contestants.

"SNL" is obviously skewering the older man/younger woman pairing -- pretty well, we might add -- but did the sketch need to go that young to prove its point?

You be the judge and watch the full sketch above.

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