“Saturday Night Live” wasted no time delving into January’s profuse political dramas on the first show of the year this weekend after more than a month of vacation.
In the show’s ‘Blue Georgia’ sketch, cast members and guest host John Krasinski portray the usually dependable red state as a Rachel Maddow-loving avocado toast and vegan meatloaf serving, and solar-heated porch of the land.
The “politically correct” transformation follows the actual election by the state of two Democrats to the United States Senate in a pair of Jan. 5 second round matches, expelling incumbent Republicans.
‘Good to see another Blue Stater. We’re just like you, ”a small-town Georgian waitress played by Aidy Bryant tells a New York tourist, played by cast member Pete Davidson, who enters the restaurant.
“Do you know where the men’s room is?” Davidson, asks after he sits down.
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“Yeah, in 2015,” cast member Beck Bennett tells Davidson as he plays Georgia man “Skeeter, he / him,” the owner of the town’s electric truck dealer who looks a bit like KFC’s Colonel Sanders. “We don’t have a men’s restroom, but the restroom for all the men is down the road.”
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After Davidson admits his surprise that the restaurant has a restroom for all men, Bennett jokes that Davidson thinks all Georgians are “crazy Christian types.”
“Oh no, and even if you are, it’s fine,” Davidson replies. “I am Jewish.”
“I hope you know what we do to Jewish people here in Georgia,” Bennett warns ominously as Skeeter.
“We choose them!” he laughs, referring to Senator Jon Ossoff, the Democrat who defeated Republican Senator David Perdue in one of the run-offs. Ossoff thus became the state’s first Jewish US senator. (Also on January 5, Senator Raphael Warnock, the state’s first US senator, defeated Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler.)
Later in the sketch, Deputy Jimmy, played by Andrew Dismukes, bursts into the restaurant and says how ‘honored’ he was that a group of Black Lives Matter activists’ protested in our town! ‘
Then a Floridian in a MAGA hat, played by Alex Moffatt, enters the restaurant and receives a stern reminder from Krasinski, the town’s sheriff.
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“This is Stacey Abrams’ land,” the lawman warns, referring to the high-profile Democrat who lost a race for state governor in 2018 and then launched Fair Fight Action, a group that helped Democrats defeat the two races of the state. US Senate to win.
But at the end of the sketch, the one thing that hasn’t changed is the dinner companies’ collective refusal to wear masks to protect themselves from the coronavirus.
“Because we are free!” they shout.
The show also took in U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., During the cold open, sketching the GameStop stock controversy and mocking the U.S. Capitol riots and the ouster of former President Trump.