Is Weird Al Yankovic Writing For SNL? [VIDEO]

So I was late to the game watching SNL’s “Djesus Uncrossed” sketch, which was funny, and had a great satirical line in the middle that pre-absolves them from the b.s. attacks they’re taking from Christian groups for it. That line, in which the narrator faux-quotes a film critic as saying, “it’s less violent than ‘Passion of the Christ’” is genius. Anyone attacking SNL for insulting Christianity who’s never criticized “Passion” is hypocritical. And I know that Christians believe Jesus is the Messiah come to save us. So shouldn’t they, too, wish that Jesus had jumped off the cross and killed a bunch of Roman soldiers? Wouldn’t that have precipitated a faster rapture?

Anyway, the reason I wrote this post is that I can’t figure out if SNL stole a gag from Weird Al’s movie “UHF,” if they’re giving him a subtle, nerdy shout-out, or have no idea that their gag is so similar to his.

Here’s the SNL sketch. Pay attention around 40 seconds in.

and here’s the Weird Al sketch from “UHF.” Pay attention around 30 seconds in.

The sword/axe splitting gag isn’t used that often, especially not in movie parodies. I really doubt this is just parallel thinking, so I hope it was a shout out to Weird Al.

What do you think?