“Saturday Night Live” called New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, and US Senator Ted Cruz, from Texas, a Republican, at the show’s premiere this weekend in a segment where politicians should apologize. for their separate scandals.
Both were received at a show called “Oops, You Did It Again”, hosted by Britney Spears, played by “SNL” cast member Chloe Fineman. The premise of the show: to allow guests to make “stupid” excuses – like the mea culpas of the late decades that Spears received from celebrities like ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake after the recent documentary “Framing Britney Spears”.
Cuomo, played in the New York tough guy style by Staten Island-born cast member Pete Davidson, seemed a little reluctant to take responsibility for claims that his administration hid data on coronavirus deaths in nursing homes and that he threatened people who talked about it.
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Although Davison, like Cuomo, grudgingly admitted that some deaths in nursing homes were falsely counted as deaths in hospitals, he said the state was just[ing] the bodies “just as he intended Disney World to do if a guest died on the teacup ride, but they pretended it happened in the parking lot.
He then gave a timid apology after prodding Spears, but was suddenly furious, vowing that he would bury New York Mayor Bill de Blasio “in the highest pit this city has ever seen” because the mayor recently asked Cuomo be investigated.
“I’m sorry,” he said to Spears, trying to regain his composure. “I get a little angry now and then – and always.”
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At the beginning of the sketch, Cruz was played by cast member Aidy Bryant. The senator was publicly criticized last week for deciding to take a trip to Cancún with his family, while Texas was involved in a winter storm crisis that left millions of people without electricity or drinking water.
“I’m in a difficult situation, what I’m told is something that no one in Texas has,” Bryant as Cruz told Spears.
Governor Andrew Cuomo, on the left, was personified by “SNL” cast member Pete Davidson this weekend. (Associated Press / Getty Images)
The fake Cruz, with beads in his hair and wearing a “Cancun Family Vacation 2021” T-shirt, carried a tropical drink in one hand and pulled a suitcase on wheels with the other – just like the real-life senator was seen doing in viral photos from the airport last week.
“I deeply regret my actions in the past few days, most flying at United,” he joked.
“I’m sorry,” he told Spears, “I’m really bad at human things.”
Fineman’s Spears asked Bryant’s Cross if he knew why critics called him a “coward.”
“Yes, ‘a coward’ is actually the nicest word I’ve heard,” he replied.
After the fake Cruz admitted that he blamed his daughters for the vacation, the fake Spears aggressively warned the senator that she speaks from experience: “Maybe leave your daughters out of it because it can really mess with their heads!”
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Later, when Cruz tried to sympathize with Cuomo, saying that the two were “misunderstood men”, Cuomo told him that he did not like the comparison.
“I am a man, you are a clown,” Davidson as Cuomo replied. “… If you mess with me, I will send you to a clown hospital – and when you die, I will not count your body.”
The February 20 show featured guest host Regé-Jean Page, who stars in “Bridgerton”, and musical guest Bad Bunny.