Fox News has to this point been cautious in reporting on a defamation lawsuit introduced towards it by way of Dominion Voter Systems, and on the many non-public messages the swimsuit has surfaced from high-ranking Fox News body of workers, expressing their disbelief at falsehoods and conspiracy theories the community promoted after the 2020 presidential election.
So “Saturday Night Live” strode proper into that hole, kicking off this weekend’s display with a comic strip that imagined how the “Fox & Friends” morning display would possibly quilt this news. (Short resolution: awkwardly.)
“S.N.L.”, which was once hosted by way of the Kansas City Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce and featured the musical visitor Kelsea Ballerini, opened on a sendup of “Fox & Friends” with Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner and Bowen Yang enjoying the hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade.
Day, as Doocy, arrange the phase by way of announcing, “You may have heard that Fox News is currently facing a $1.6 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems.”
Yang, as Kilmeade, stated he was once stunned by way of the swimsuit “because I’m such a fan of Dominions — the little yellow guys with the overalls.”
“Not the Minions,” Day defined. “We’re talking about the Dominion voting machines lawsuit. And our boss, Rupert Murdoch, gave some pretty shocking testimony in the case.”
“This whole trial has been so unfair,” stated Gardner. “They are raking him over the coals. Rupert Murdoch would never murder anyone. They sent him away for life.”
Day corrected her, too. “That’s not Rupert Murdoch, that’s Alex Murdaugh,” he stated.
“Well, we just blew the case wide open,” Gardner responded. “They got the wrong guy.”
The hosts shared textual content messages from Fox News hosts that they stated the news media had offered out of context. For instance, Yang confirmed a textual content message from Sean Hannity that learn: “Rudy Giuliani is insane.”
However, Yang stated, the complete message in fact learn that Giuliani is “insanely hot. I just want to lick that head dye right off.”
Day added that textual content messages studying “Mind blowingly nuts” and “off the rails” were despatched to their fellow Fox host Laura Ingraham based on her query, “What should I put in my Tinder bio?”
The hosts then presented an interview with the MyPillow founder, Mike Lindell (James Austin Johnson), caution him to not say the rest outrageous about Dominion.
Saying that he understood, Johnson straight away disobeyed the instruction. “Every Dominion machine has a Venezuelan Oompa Loompa inside that eats the votes with its little mouth,” he stated.
Following an extra admonishment, Johnson broke the rule once more: “Dominion voting machines give triple votes to Democrats, illegals and that lady M&M that stopped shaving her pits,” he stated.
Toy tale of the week
When you’ve were given an “S.N.L.” episode hosted by way of a celeb athlete like Kelce, a two-time Super Bowl-champion, in fact you’re going to position him in sketches that puncture conventional notions of masculinity. Like this one, which discovered Kelce’s smartly attired persona eating at an American Girl Café, without a different partners at his desk but even so his two dolls, Claire and Isabelle.
Kelce proved lovely deft with wry descriptions of his dolls (“Isabelle just had her period and she thinks she’s a woman now”) and in parrying the suspicions of a waiter, performed by way of Day, who requested if his title would possibly flip up on any court docket paperwork or executive lists. “The only list you’ll find me on is the hungriest customer list,” Kelce replied.
Fake advert of the week
Yang were given the highlight on this filmed phase, explaining to the digital camera that, as a homosexual guy, he loves his feminine buddies however once in a while unearths them overwhelming. When he wishes aid, he turns to Straight Male Friend, a product he describes with the identical calm detachment you may use to summarize a prescription drug: “A low-effort, low-stakes relationship that requires no emotional commitment, no financial investment and, other than the occasional video-game related outburst, no drama.”
Kelce performed that product, an easygoing bro who slightly reacted when Yang instructed him he was once considering of shifting to Europe for seven years. “Just hit me when you’re back,” Kelce replied.
But watch out: As an onscreen graphic warned, “Three or more straight male friends may result in a trip to Atlantic City.”
Weekend Update jokes of the week
Over at the Weekend Update table, the anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che riffed on a drag efficiency ban in Tennessee; a conclusion from the Department of Energy on the reason behind the coronavirus pandemic; and the fallout from a racist rant by way of Scott Adams, the author of the cartoon “Dilbert.”
Jost started:
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed a brand new legislation banning public drag performances with a six-year jail sentence for repeat offenders, as first predicted in the now documentary “Madea Goes to Jail.” A Tennessee state senator stated the invoice will save you youngsters from being “blindsided by a sexualized performance in public.” What are you speaking about? Drag displays don’t simply pop up like flash mobs and sprinkle homosexual mud to your youngsters. I by no means unintentionally took place upon a drag display, and I grew up in New York City. Now, I’ve been blindsided by way of a sexualized efficiency a couple of instances, however that’s simply what you get when you’re taking the bus.
Che became to Covid news …
The U.S. Energy division concluded that Covid most likely originated from a Wuhan laboratory leak and now not a rainy marketplace. So I gave up consuming bats for not anything?
… after which pivoted to “Dilbert”:
Newspapers round the nation dropped the cool animated film strip “Dilbert” after author Scott Adams stated he selected to reside in a neighborhood the place no Black other people reside. So he lives to your construction, huh, Colin?
Jost (after denying it was once true) picked up the thread:
Newspapers dropped the cool animated film strip efficient straight away. And to rub it in, they’re changing “Dilbert” with “Peanuts: Oops All Franklin.” “Dilbert” author Scott Adams’s racist rant was once based on the result of a ballot that requested respondents the query, “Is it OK to be white?” Oh, I’d say it’s extra than simply OK. [His screen showed a photo of Jost holding wads of cash in his hands.]
Weekend Update table phase of the week
Extending its mockery of the comic-strip controversy, Weekend Update featured a talk over with from Dilbert himself: He was once performed by way of Michael Longfellow, who wore some frightening prosthetics that all-too-realistically depicted what the persona would possibly appear to be if he have been human.
Longfellow instructed Che that, even if he was once oblivious to Adams’s racism: “I knew he was bad. He made me go into the office every single day during Covid and he knows I’m autoimmune.” When Che replied with disbelief, Longfellow stated, “Do I look like somebody who’s not autoimmune? Yeah, I’m a real athlete. My hair is skin, Michael.”
He went on to explain Adams as “the funny guy” and “the Trump-supporting cartoonist who did magic in his spare time — had a great Kevin Hart impression.” Che stated, “Well that sounds like a racist to me.”
Longfellow responded: “Well, it turns out he was a racist. And I’m his prize creation. I mean, what does that make me?”