Saturday Night Live's cold open took a look at the year of 2021 so far and spoofed pop-culture and political figures including QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, a GameStop investor, O. J. Simpson, and Tom Brady.
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Last night’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” started with a simple question: What still works?
Turns out not much. In the cold open, cast member Kate McKinnon played the host of a talk show interviewing the viral breakout stars of the 2021 newscycle. All the big names were there: the Republican Party, the stock market, Twitter, Facebook, the vaccination program. It was truly a who’s who of American clusterfucks.
Representing the Republican Party, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (played by Cecily Strong) strutted onto the stage and offered McKinnon a stick of gun. After a discussion about some of Rep. Greene’s most colorful beliefs (shout out to jewish space lasers!), McKinnon asked, “When your colleagues found out about all of these hateful and psychotic things you said, what did they do?”“I was promoted to the education committee.” Strong replied. “Okay, so the government doesn’t work, and I regret not taking that gun. ” McKinnon joked through her signatur