SNL hilariously parodies Starbucks’ ‘Race Together’ campaign

Published March 29, 2015 2:23pm ET



Starbucks’ ill-advised “Race Together” campaign–where baristas were to “engage” customers in a conversation about race relations over their morning coffee run–didn’t go over very well. But what if another company–say, Pep Boys (or Girls! Or Whatever!)–took on their own campaign to talk about gender and sexual identity?

SNL hilariously imagines the fruitful “conversations” that might take place–like whether Ellen Degeneres was ever a man, and can gay people say “that’s gay?”

Watch below, to be reminded of why sensitive cultural issues do not belong in awkward workplace chit-chat: