After a hiatus of one month, Saturday Night Live returned with a cold opening that covered a number of news topics that took place while the show was on vacation, including the controversy surrounding Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the GameStop situation, social media censorship and the return of Tom Brady to the Super Bowl.
In the segment called “What still works?” Kate McKinnon reviewed some aspects of society – like government, economics, sports and vaccine implantation – to see if they “still work”. His first guest was Deputy Greene (Cicely Strong), who, as the true representative of Georgia, began to launch conspiracy theories about the Parkland school shooting and the “Jewish space lasers” that caused forest fires.
“And when your colleagues found out about all the odious and psychotic things you said, what did they do?” McKinnon asked.
“I was promoted to the education committee,” said Greene de Strong.
After realizing that the government was no longer working, McKinnon then analyzed the stock market with GameStop’s new majority shareholder “Derrick Boner” in Pete Davidson, who helped establish that the stock market was no longer functioning.
Then came social media – Mark Zuckerberg from Alex Moffat and Jack Dorsey from Mikey Day – and then the launch of the vaccine, where McKinnon wondered how a nation that vaccinated only a small percentage of its population managed to have one available to OJ Simpson ( Kenan Thompson).
“Teachers can’t get the vaccine, but can you? People with long-term lung disease, but did you? McKinnon asked. “So, among the top 3 percent of all Americans who received the vaccine was OJ Simpson?”
“Hey, guilty was accused,” joked Simpson of Thompson.
To close the segment, McKinnon welcomed the only thing that seems to be working, Tom Brady (played by SNL John Krasinski), who will return to the Super Bowl again next weekend, this time as a Tampa Bay defender. Buccaneers.
“You still work. You must win football games and keep winning football games. You may be the only thing in America that still works,” said McKinnon. “So I think everyone must be rooting for you, right?”
“Hardly anyone,” said Brady de Krasinski.