Lady Gaga blew through Saturday Night Live over the weekend, weaponizing boisterous vocal runs and skinny fringe dresses that suggested the 38-year-old singer-songwriter, producer, and actor had put in the proverbial 10,000 hours studying zesty mid-20th-century variety shows. But the best skit didn’t employ her impressively interchangeable pop-star skill set. “Little Red Glasses,” a short piece near the end of the episode, was a daytime-TV ad ribbing a specific flavor of New York progressivism that has wilted since the ’90s. “I was ahead of the curve on gay marriage,” Sarah Sherman shouted, “and that’s where it stopped.” “Me too!” affirmed Gaga.
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