The Kansas City Chiefs player makes for a surprisingly effective comic actor in an episode with some of the season’s strongest moments so far
Saturday Night Live opens with a new episode of Fox & Friends. Hosts Steve Doocy (Mikey Day), Ainsley Earhardt (Heidi Gardner), and Brian Kilmeade (Bowen Yang) report on the $1.6bn lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems has brought against Fox News over their 2020 election conspiracy-mongering. Much like the network’s viewers, who’ve been kept in the dark about the case, the hosts don’t seem to know anything about it, with Kilmeade confusing Dominion for “the little yellow guys with the overalls” and Earhardt mistaking her boss Rupert Murdoch for convicted family killer Alex Murdaugh.
Lazy jokes about Fox News personalities’ private texts and short pop-ins from Mike Lindell (James Austin Johnson, whose impersonation of the MyPillow founder isn’t quite as good as former cast member Beck Bennet’s) and OJ Simpson (Kenan Thompson) follow, before things wrap up. You’d think the show would use any opportunity to twist the knife into Fox News, but this cold open is utterly dull and pointless.
