Bit late for Halloween..... Marlee Matlin has criticised Saturday Night Live after it aired a sketch about a sign language interpreter.
The show included two over-enthusiastic signers in a sketch which mocked Mayor Bloomberg's Hurricane Sandy press conferences and his interpreter Lydia Callis, who has become a viral hit. However, Matlin - who is legally deaf - complained on her Twitter page that the scene was "childish and insulting".
"Millions of dead people use sign," she said. "Why poke fun/fake it? Poke fun at ME but not the language. Would they do that to Spanish or Chinese? FAIL." She continued: "I'm referring to sign language parodies. Sign is not mime; it is a legit language. "As I've said, I don't mind fun poked at me, as I poke back. But at the language, that millions use? It feels childish and insulting."
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