Saturday Night Live took a break from politics in its cold open to riff on March Madness — more specifically how the women’s tournament has been a lot more exciting than the men’s competition. The set up was TBS’s post-game coverage, with co-host Kenny Smith (Devon Walker) noting that 14 million people watched the the … Read more
The Saturday Night Live cold open marked Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory in the South Carolina primary by skewering Republican senators humiliating devotion to him, even though he’s hurled insults at them, jeopardized their key causes and shown no loyalty back at them. The skit had Lindsey Graham (James Austin Johnson), Tim Scott (Devon Walker), James … Read more
Nikki Haley made a surprise appearance in the Saturday Night Live cold open, this time as a “concerned South Carolina voter” asking questions of Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) at a CNN town hall. The skit had Gayle King and Charles Barkley, hosts of CNN’s King Charles, moderating the town hall with the former president, … Read more
Just hours after Liz Magill resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania over the evasive answers she and two other academic leaders gave in a testimony at a House hearing this week, the three were being mocked on the Saturday Night Live cold open. So was Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the Trump-supporting congresswoman whose … Read more
Saturday Night Live went with the big political news of the week for its cold open, giving a musical send off to now expelled fabulist congressman George Santos. Bowen Yang plays Santos as a victimized con man, singing a new rendition of Elton John’s Candle in the Wind: Goodbye, Congress queen, they’ll never know anything … Read more
