Now, I can understand that Johnson's projection and tone may have made the skit highly offensive to some Hawai'i residents, but the ones who are making the loudest noise is a rather small percentage. Having said that, taking this with a grain of salt and realizing that this skit was trying to make light that Hawai'i can be no different from anywhere else...and adding humor to convey the message. This isn't the first time we seen this on SNL, and won't be the last. Now that the above is out of the way, this skit was hilarious! Pure genius. Like I said, it makes light that this place ain't no different from anywhere else in the states, and exploiting the humor we (as Hawaiian's) see with the tourists. Again, this is no different from generalizing other cultures in other countries, and it's only natural that we do it.Above all, the fear from the state was that this skit would discourage tourists from visiting our islands. Well, according to our yearly numbers, that's far from the truth! Take a chill pill, laugh at The Rock's silly Hula dancing and cup tipping! Aloha! e malama pono!

I'm very glad people who have lived in Hawaii are on the same page. We think it was fun. It was hilarious. It's not really a reflection of how it is in Hawaii. It's played up for the jokes. I'm not sure why our Lt. Governor had to get bent over this. We do have hotels the line the beaches, we have out-of-state businessmen coming and going willy nilly. We have shanty towns. We even have mean hotel workers. There's no problem here, only funny funny funny.