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| The Guardian - Culture: TV & Radio | | | | Saturday Night Live: Billie Eilish pulls double duty but festive cheer is hard to muster | | by Zach Vasquez Dec 12, 2021 | | The singer acquits herself fine but a returning Kate McKinnon on poor form and some lazy writing makes it an underwhelming episode Saturday Night Live returns from a short hiatus with A Holiday Message from Dr Anthony Fauci (Kate McKinnon), who relays the latest informing about Covid-19 to the public. He attempts to calm worries about the new Omicron variant – “if you had a vaccine and a booster … unclench” – before, like last year, turning the stage over to “nerds trying their best” from the CDC, who act out common scenarios relating to the pandemic. These include a guy being banished from society for attempting to eat at a restaurant without his vaccination card, a horny, but worried airplane passenger hitting on game flight attendant, and a mall Santa who no longer allows children to sit on his lap because “thanks to the vaccine, my testicles have ballooned in size”. This is followed by appearances from a series of public disgraces, including “unemployed brothers” Andrew (Pete Davidson) and Chris Cuomo (Andrew Dismukes), Congressional gun nutjobs Lauren Boebert (Chloe Fineman) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Cecily Strong), and “weirdo with the beardo” Ted Cruz, who gets the last laugh on the recently deceased Bob Dole for having once said “no one likes me”. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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