It had to be the Academy Awards that got burned in tonight’s SNL cold open, didn’t it? But did it have to be this gammy cold open? “Last year’s Oscars had the slap, which was awesome, I mean bad, s…
,” “Chris Rock” and the billion to one of “Harvey Weinstein Introduces Kanye West,” teased with how good this Oscar-centric skit could have been.
Even the great Bowen Yang showing up the truth challenged freshman Congressman claimed to be the Top Gun” Maverick star was the redeemer it needed to be. “Now if you’ll excuse me I have to be everyone everywhere all at once,” was an understatement. Going into tomorrow’s Oscars, plus further fallout from Dominion Voting System’s defamation suit against Fox News and the self-cannibalism that the race for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination is already gearing up to be, SNL had no shortage of satire at its disposal once again for this week. A new document and deposition dump in the Dominion vs FNC legal war the past few days could have easily and shamelessly provided Saturday Night with another cold open mocking Fox News like on March 4.
But after the slap heard around the world when Will Smith took a whack live on-stage at Chris Rock for mocking his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, this week’s cold open had to be a hot take on the 95Pummeled later in the cold open with comparisons between the 95Academy Awards and “how racist and sexist your Grampa was at 95,” we should have seen where this was going from the get-go – and it wasn’t good.
“I guess everyone in Hollywood has diabetes,” Gardner quipped right at the start of tonight’s SNL cold open with a lame swipe at Tineseltown’s new weight shedding love-affair with the drug Ozempic. “We are so excited to have been standing outside the Dolby Theatre for almost 153 hours,” added Hernandez as Lopez. “But it’s all worth to ask Angela Bassett if she really did the thing.”
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