Saturday Night Live's Parallel Digital Shorts

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Both Radar and BestWeekEver.tv have posts up today criticizing Saturday Night Live for making a tired topical joke about Mel Gibson's anti-semitism/new movie that is very similar to a tired topical joke about Mel Gibson's anti-semitism/new movie that Eat The Press posted on Friday.
You can click here for Eat The Press' low-tech version.
And here's SNL's higher-tech version:
Ok. So two different sources made the same easy joke. It's not that big of a deal, right? Except that this is the third time that SNL has made a digital short that is remarkably similar to an existing web video or piece.