Scientologists ‘recognize satire’ in ‘SNL’ skit mocking them

Even Scientologists sometimes have a sense of humor.

An “SNL” sendup of a 1990 Scientology music video called “We Stand Tall” imagined a video for a similar-sounding religion, “Neurotology,” with Taran Killam as a David Miscavige-like leader, Kate McKinnon as a “Diametrics” teacher and Bobby Moynihan as an L. Ron Hubbard-like founder.

While Scientology has had a tough week, or rather, year in the media, a rep told us of the sketch: “We recognize it’s satire.”

Meanwhile, after HBO aired Alex Gibney’s exposé, “Going Clear,” on March 29, the book that inspired the film is back on the best-seller chart. Lawrence Wright’s “Going Clear” tome hit No. 7 on the New York Times paperback nonfiction list for the week of April 19.

It reached No. 3 when it was first published in 2013.

Gibney’s film will soon debut in Canada and the UK — where the book was never released after the publisher dropped it for fear of legal fallout.

Scientology reps have blasted the film as featuring “admitted perjurers, admitted liars and professional anti-Scientologists.”

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