‘I am in hot water…. which no one in Texas has’: SNL skewers Ted Cruz for his Cancun escape and mocks Gov. Cuomo for his deadly nursing home scandal…. but STILL continues to give President Biden a pass
Saturday Night Live mocked Senator Ted Cruz for jetting off to Cancun while his home state was in the throes of a humanitarian crisis and also sent up Governor Andrew Cuomo for his role in New York’s nursing home deaths scandal.
Cruz and Cuomo were invited onto a talk show hosted by pop star Britney Spears, who gave the two beleaguered politicians a chance to apologize for their recent actions.
SNL’s cold open once again declined to skewer President Joe Biden – a far cry from the frequent barbs that were dished out at his predecessor, Donald Trump, during his four years in the Oval Office.
Joining Cruz and Cuomo was Gina Carano, the actress who was fired by Disney and Lucasfilm from her role in the Disney+-streamed Star Wars hit series The Mandalorian.
Carano was offered a chance to apologize for an Instagram post in which she compares conservatives in the United States to Jews who were massacred during the Nazi era.
Saturday Night Love mocked New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo (played left by Pete Davidson) and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas (played right by Aidy Bryant)
Cruz and Cuomo were invited onto a talk show hosted by pop star Britney Spears, who gave the two beleaguered politicians a chance to apologize for their recent actions. Spears is played above by Chloe Fineman
Joining Cruz and Cuomo was Gina Carano, the actress who was fired by Disney and Lucasfilm from her role in the Disney+-streamed Star Wars hit series The Mandalorian. Carano is portrayed above by SNL cast member Cecily Strong
In the skit, Spears, who is played by Chloe Fineman, is the host of a fictitious talk show, Oops, You Did it Again, which she started so that ‘people can come on and apologize for things they’ve done wrong.’
‘After the “Free Britney” documentary came out, I’m receiving hundreds of apologies a day,’ she says in the skit.
Last week, Spears was in the news in real life after a documentary, Framing Britney Spears, streamed on Hulu.
The documentary, which was produced by The New York Times, chronicles Spears’ rise to stardom and her subsequent fall triggered by a decline in her mental health, which led to her finances being placed in the hands of her father.
Spears has gone to court in an attempt to dissolve her conservatorship, which is controlled by Jamie Spears.
The documentary painted the pop star in a sympathetic light, prompting her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, to apologize to her.
Fans of Spears have also demanded apologies from media figures and comedians, including David Letterman, Diane Sawyer, and Sarah Silverman, for either making jokes about her mental health more than a decade ago or for casting her in a harsh light.