“Saturday Night Live” returned for a new year, mocking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), The launch of the coronavirus vaccine and the Wall Street crisis during the show’s open cold.
In a script titled “What Still Works,” actress and comedian Kate McKinnon hosted a mock-up chat with a number of co-stars who faked various figures in the news in recent weeks.
Among them was Greene.
“Thank you for having me,” comedian Cecily Strong, who represents Greene, tells McKinnon, immediately offering him a gun.
McKinnon then asks about some of the conspiracy theories she promoted on social media before being elected to Congress in November.
Greene de Strong blasts a list of false claims about the 2018 Parkland High School shooting and the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, wondering, “Did anyone really see that?”
McKinnon, seemingly worried and perplexed, asks, “Are you a U.S. representative?” and pressuring her on what her colleagues at Capitol Hill have done in response to her statements.
“I was promoted to the Board of Education,” says Strong’s Greene.
“The government doesn’t work,” McKinnon replies.
Cast member Pete Davidson then joins McKinnon, playing the role of a man identified as a “majority shareholder in GameStop.”
“Wow, we sell games,” says a seemingly unconscious Davidson. “People are downloading all their games now, so we’re like what you would say …”
“A dying business?” McKinnon asks. “So now it looks like …”
“Is the whole system a joke?” Says Davidson.
The rush of GameStop shares last week by organized armchair investors on the Internet caused the company’s value on Wall Street to skyrocket before the Robinhood stock trading app suspended the company’s operations. company, a movement that met with a bipartisan reaction.
Longtime cast member Keenan Thompson also made an appearance during the first cold opening of his new year’s program, playing the role of OJ Simpson and wearing an ankle locator while boasting of receiving the vaccine. against coronavirus.
“So among the first 3 percent of all Americans who received the vaccine was OJ Simpson?” McKinnon asks.
“Guilty as defendant … of the vaccine,” Simpson replies.
“Very well, so that the vaccine deployment doesn’t work,” he said.