I don’t know where you are, and I don’t consume much spoken media, but I don’t recall ever having heard anyone, American or otherwise, pronounce “ridiculous” with a long E up front.
I’ve heard it quite often in casual, emphatic speech. “That is reee-DICK-ya-less.”
Tons of it. Television, movies, even much older movies.
Hence the humorous pronuication you sometimes here of “ree-DONK-u-less” (“dong” replaces “dick” and the “g” sound shifts into a ‘k’)
“besides the point”
You see this a lot in Corporate America Human Resources - employees don’t have “faults”, they have “challenges”. We don’t have positives and negatives with processes, we have … (I’m trying to think of good corporate speak for positive; I really try to avoid euphemisms) and challenges. What we really have is bullshit, but…
“Core competency.”
D’oh. Pronunciation! not “pronuication” (sic)
Seen it typo’ed (and mis-pronounced) as “pronoUnciation”.
A couple that I heard way too many times today while doing my online training:
(1) “Stakeholders” used to mean anything other than players in a poker game.
(2) “Tools in your toolbox” to mean an app or link to a URL.
Which reminds me of something else that’s not right. Calling a mere link to a URL an app.
Problematic.
I’m fucking sick of it. It’s just one-word shorthand meant to shut down discussion.
Actually I usually find that it initiates a discussion or is the result of a discussion.
I mostly hear it, or read it, being used as an unchallengeable assertion.
To me, just seems like verbal laziness. And sometimes (not all the time, probably not even most of the time) it’s used to disguise a lack of substance.
“His actions were problematic.” Everyone is supposed to know what, exactly, the problem is, and the discussion stops there.
Obviously an SNL skit isn’t exactly serious commentary, but when a word is thrown around so much that it comes up in the first 30 seconds of a skit, and is so easily satirized, it’s overused.
Speaking of which - the phrase “human resources” aggravates me. We used to call that department “personnel,” which indicates that these are people. But that wasn’t fancy enough, so someone decided to change it to sound like they want to isolate and study us so it can be determined what nutrients we have that might be extracted for our their personal use.
I was ok until I heard my managers call me a resource.
Where I work they have moved on from us being a mere resource and now we are controlled by the Human Capital Management System. I am not making this up.
Indeed, there was nothing wrong with “personnel”. My mum was a social worker employed under the BC Ministry of Human Resources - was never crazy about the appellation.
Are you human? 
Maybe the personnel weren’t very personable.
OK, I’m going away now.
On the internet, nobody knows you’re not human.
Woof!!