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“Saturday Night Live” is back with its first episode of 2021 to remind everyone how chaotic the first 30 days of the year have been.
Kate McKinnon kicked off the comedy sketch show’s cold open with a segment titled “What Still Works?” where she interviewed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Cecily Strong), Derrick Boner (Pete Davidson), O.J. Simpson (Kenan Thompson), Jack Dorsey (Alex Moffat), Mark Zuckerberg (Mikey Day) and Tom Brady (John Krasinski) to recap everything going right… or rather, wrong in the United States.
“It’s a new year and we have a new president so somethings should work, but do they?” McKinnon asked the audience before inviting her first guest Greene, “who’s been promoting QAnon conspiracy theories” to talk about their first topic: Government.
Strong’s Greene listed off all the things she believed to be a “hoax” which included, but was not limited to, the Parkland school shooting and September 11 attacks. She also believes the California wildfires were caused by “Jewish space lasers.”
“So government doesn’t work,” McKinnon said.
Next up was the new majority shareholder of GameStop, Boner, whose last name isn’t even Boner (it’s Evans). He wanted his last name to be Boner, so that McKinnon could say “boner.”
“I put all my money in GameStop and I can’t lose,” Davidson’s Boner… or Evans told McKinnon who then tried to explain to him how the stock market actually works and that GameStop’s stock prices don’t reflect the kind of business GameStop has been doing. In conclusion, the stock market doesn’t work either.
This continued on with Twitter and Facebook CEOs Dorsey and Zuckerberg who’ve had to “suspend the accounts of many prominent conservatives who are spreading lies and inciting violence.”
Moffat’s Dorsey and Day’s Zuckerberg’s shared that this pushed those extremists underground into “darker and scarier apps where their delusion and bloodlust could run wild.”
“Fundamentally Facebook still works. Not only does it help people form communities online, it helps people meet and connect in real life. For example, at the Capitol,” Day’s Zuckerberg said as he laughed.
Next up was Thompson’sSimpson who received the COVID-19 vaccine before teachers and many Americans with underlying health conditions leading McKinnon to the conclusion that the vaccine rollout is also not working.
McKinnon almost had hope with Krasinski’s Brady, who seemed to be still working until she finds out he’s a “weird Trump guy.”
“I’m Kate McKinnon as myself slowly losing my mind along with all of you. Stay strong. Or weak, weak is a great option, too,” McKinnon ended the cold open.
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