'Saturday Night Live's' wild take on presidential history.

'Saturday Night Live' is often knocked for having lost its cultural relevancy two decades ago. But they hit the nail on its timely head this week with a sketch of 'The Roosevelts' spoofing the scorched script approach of 'The Kennedys' miniseries which ended last night on Reelz Channel.

The tale of FDR and his wife Eleanor (see video below) was described as 'a story so shocking, it has to be true' and '10% accurate but 20% entertaining.'

It included such memorable historic moments as Eleanor (played by 'SNL' host Helen Mirren) ordering the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Topless.

Quickly, before 'The Kennedys' fades into obscurity, I want to point out the aspect that struck me most: the incredibly variable Boston accents. Everytime Greg Kinnear (as J.F.K.) made a speech, the distinctive accent was thicker than tar. But when he was engaged in conversation, it often disappeared completely.

Katie Holmes (as Jackie) was also remarkably spotty. Umm, I thought she grew up in New York City and attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. Was the Massachusetts intonation contagious?

The only actor who maintained consistency was Barry Pepper (as RFK). What gets me is that the character with the heaviest Beantown accent was Bobby's wife Ethel, a lady who was born in Chicago and raised in Manhattan and suburban New York.

The whole thing was like a stage production of Shakespeare put on in Biloxi, Miss. Half the time the actors are doing flowery faux-Elizabethan accents but they keep slipping back into Southern drawls, y'all.

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