Amid a whiplash news cycle, “Saturday Night Live” paused to relish a second in American historical past that marked the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The present opened with Brown, performed by Ego Nwodim, being hosted within the Oval Office by President Joe Biden, performed by James Austin Johnson.
Biden mentioned he’d fulfilled a marketing campaign promise to place a Black lady on the excessive courtroom. Jackson mentioned she was blissful to guide.
“I was happy to do my part,” she mentioned, “work twice as hard as the white man my entire life and then spend a week listening to Ted Cruz calling me a pedophile.”
Biden urged Jackson to take a second and “feel the weight of history” from contained in the White House.
Jackson imagined whom she’d need to converse to, and late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, performed by Kate McKinnon, appeared. She mentioned there was some justice ultimately — Jackson’s confirmation Thursday by the U.S. Senate.
“In the end,” she mentioned, “people do the right thing.”
“I was confirmed to the senate 96 to 3,” Ginsburg continued. “Right? What was your vote?”
Jackson responded, “53-47. A lot of them walked out, and one guy kept asking me if babies are racist.”
Ginsburg: “Ted Cruz?”
Jackson: “You know it was.”
The matter continued on news section “Weekend Update.” Co-host Colin Jost mentioned that, upon the Senate’s confirmation of U.S. Circuit Court decide as the primary Black lady to serve on the Supreme Court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh mentioned, “I’ll drink to that.”
Jost ultimately returned to the nation’s extra urgent news, the fallout from Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on the Academy Awards final month.
He famous that Smith was being sanctioned with a 10-year ban on showing on the annual occasion.
“But is that a punishment?” Jost mentioned. “He can still be nominated and even win an award. He can even go to the afterparty. He just doesn’t have to attend the four-hour ceremony — where someone is definitely going to make fun of his wife again.”
“I think the real punishment would be to make Will Smith host next year’s Oscars,” Jost mentioned.
