Last modified on Mon 12 Apr 2021 13.28 EDT
Ever since the news kicked into high gear somewhere around November 2016, Saturday Night Live has struggled to address it all within the designated political talkback of the cold open sketch. Instead of picking one story and really digging in, the writers have chosen to contrive a situation broad enough to work in three or four major topics.
This week, we open on a nightly news program in Minnesota. Two white anchors (Kate McKinnon and Alex Moffat) struggle to get on the same page as their Black colleagues (Kenan Thompson and Ego Nwodim, Chris Redd popping in as a weatherman on probation) while reporting the trial of Derek Chauvin, the deaths of DMX and Prince Philip, the Matt Gaetz sex scandal and Paul Pierceâs dismissal from ESPN. The read on the stories varies across the racial divide.
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