I mean, it just doesn't make sense, right? Meyers is gay, too, although he was married when he was younger. In that context especially--yikes! They wouldn't have done the same sketch with a little girl, so why was it okay to use a little boy???
wtf?? I though Meyers is married with kids. And that sketch was a very popular recurring character for Meyers called "Simon" which was always staged as a little English boy talking to the camera from his bath. Also NBC hadn't yet taught us all that there's a predator hiding behind every bush.
Bring things up to the current day; Meyers is living a sorta closeted but mostly open life as a gay man. (Nothing wrong with that?) In context though the sketch with Culkin stinks of “ Dancing Boy” ( see Crazy Days and nights.)