Snoke actually being tiny might have come off as unintentionally funny though.
My original crazy theory after Episode 7 was that Snoke was actually a woman projecting some vision of a man, and that she was Rey’s mother (and Luke’s estranged wife). Now THAT would have been fun 😃
(later on it turned out one of the original ideas in early TFA planning was actually for Snoke to be a female so I felt sort of vindicated 😃)