Saturday Night Live shed light on the biggest controversy this week, when Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson yelled a racial slur during the BAFTA Film Awards.

On Saturday, February 28, NBC’s sketch-comedy late-night show took a jab in a PSA-style skit titled Tourette’s. Several celebrities, including J.K. Rowling, Mel Gibson, The Real Housewives of New York star Jill Zarin, Armie Hammer, Louis C.K., Bill Cosby, and Ye, claim to have Tourette’s, which can be used to justify past problematic comments or actions.

The skit started with Zarin, played by Sarah Sherman, who got fired from the reality TV show after criticising Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance.

“I suffer from severe long-winded monologue-style Tourette’s, a condition that affects nine out of 10 people on Long Island,” Zarin revealed.

“I’m Mel Gibson, and as I probably should have pointed out decades ago, I too, suffer from Tourette’s, which explains a lot of the things I’ve said or yelled through the years,” said the Braveheart star.

The sketch also featured actor Hammer, portrayed by episode host Connor Storrie, who remarked, “Not many people know this, but one of the most common side effects of Tourette’s is cannibalism.”

Ashley Padilla, appearing as Rowling, added, “Tourette’s isn’t just blurting out an offensive word. It can be a years-long obsession with something like trans life and a deep anger that someone who was born with a wand in their pants would want that one removed and replaced with a Horcrux.”

Meanwhile, longtime SNL cast member Kenan Thompson returned to his Cosby impression, with the disgraced comedian claiming he has “something called the drink Tourette’s,” as Ye admitted to having “three different kinds of Tourette’s.”

Whether audiences interpret the sketch as harmless satire or ill-judged humour, it can be viewed above.

Referencing the BAFTA backlash, SNL framed the mock Tourette’s PSA as being “brought to you by National Workforce of Rethinking Disabilities, or N.W.O.R.D.”