SNL Writer Shares Homophobic Review of His Film, and People Had a Field Day

Chris Kelly, a comedian and the head writer of Saturday Night Live, recently wrote and directed a movie called Other People.

The movie received rave reviews, but one person wrote a review complaining that the movie had a scene that featured a gay couple having sex.

So Kelly decided to share it on Twitter over the weekend:

Many Twitter users responded with support and encouragement.

\u201c@imchriskelly people are dumb. it's a fantastic movie... I cried the entire time (10/10 I do recommend to watch again)\u201d
— Cat (@Cat) 1504985859

\u201c@imchriskelly Keep doing you!\u201d
— David E. J. Berger (@David E. J. Berger) 1504985635

\u201c@imchriskelly @SopanDeb I loved this movie and felt that the depiction of a homosexual relationship as nothing out of the ordinary was it's most stunning element.\u201d
— \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\udd72\ud83c\udd77\ud83c\udd84\ud83c\udd72\ud83c\udd7a\ud83c\uddfe\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf4 (@\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\udd72\ud83c\udd77\ud83c\udd84\ud83c\udd72\ud83c\udd7a\ud83c\uddfe\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf4) 1504983360

\u201c@imchriskelly I thought it was perfect throughout!\u201d
— R J K (@R J K) 1504995880

And about the original reviewer's "I'm not homophobic" disclaimer...

\u201c@imchriskelly "Look, im not homophobic. I just didn't like all that gay stuff."\u201d
— scott (@scott) 1504985557

\u201c@imchriskelly It never gets less awful when people say "I'm not phobic/-ist" and then proceed to show that they are indeed phobic/-ist.\u201d
— Lindsey Decker \ud83d\ude37 (@Lindsey Decker \ud83d\ude37) 1504986149

Shoe's on the other foot...

\u201c@imchriskelly because I'm sure gay people feel the same when reviewing hetro relationship movies. What a silly silly person\u201d
— Ruth Trainor (@Ruth Trainor) 1505057029

This internet sleuth just may have figured out who wrote this review:

\u201c@imchriskelly I think it's fantastic the Vice President of the United States still writes film reviews.\u201d
— Danny Kourianos (@Danny Kourianos) 1504985028

You can watch the trailer for the film below.