At lengthy final, our nationwide comedy nightmare is over. Following months of very boring politicians doing horrible issues (however in a really boring means), in got here George Santos swinging a sack of lies that might make traditional Saturday Night Live character Tommy Flanagan blush. It’s a juicy goal, and SNL‘s Bowen Yang this weekend made essentially the most of it.
This week’s chilly open is the NFL postgame present. Curt Menefee, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Michael Strahan and Jimmy Johnson are performed by Kenan Thompson, Molly Kearney, Mikey Day, Devon Walker and James Austin Johnson, respectively. They lob simple jokes at one another – together with a enjoyable phase with Cleatus the robotic presaging the robopocalypse.
The gents then throw right down to their new sideline correspondent, just lately elected U.S. Representative George Santos. Of course, Santos has been everywhere in the information for — amongst different issues — test fraud, charity fraud, mendacity about his faculty profession, his funding profession, the loss of life(s) of his mom, and that his grandparents escaped the Holocaust.
Naturally then, when Yang’s Santos first seems on-screen, he begins spinning tales about his superb – and, in some instances, mathematically unimaginable – soccer feats. That results in a bit primarily based on one other revelation from the actual George Santos’ life: that he could have been the drag queen Kitara Revache in Brazil.
The glee with which Yang performs with the title “Kee-TAHR-ra Ree-VO-shay!” is just exceeded by the velocity at which he quick-changes right into a feathery crimson costume and commandeers the present after being kicked off. (His drag stats appear fairly legit although.)
Watch a clip beneath (the complete video can be added as soon as obtainable), and weigh in on the phase.
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