Saturday Night Live Tackles Chinese Spy Balloon With Pedro Pascal
In a rare example of using a same-day event as fodder for its usual “cold open,” NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” lampooned Saturday’s shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon by the U.S. military in a sketch that had to be prepared and written the same day it aired.
Cast member Chloe Fineman played a fictional version of MSNBC anchor Katy Tur, trying to provide analysis to viewers who had no doubt heard of the much-scrutinized weekend incident. Kenan Thompson played a military authority who suggested that vanquishing a balloon wasn’t the most difficult task faced by the U.S. armed forces.
Bowen Yang raised the sketch’s tenor by playing the actual balloon — aggrieved by the U.S. action.
Actor Pablo Pascal, known for his recent role in HBO’s videogame drama “The Last of Us,” relayed his recent acting history and gave a shout out to his family in his monologue.
More to come…
!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s)
if (f.fbq) return;
n = f.fbq = function()
n.callMethod ?
n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);
;
if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;
n.push = n;
n.loaded = !0;
n.version = ‘2.0’;
n.queue = [];
t = b.createElement(e);
t.async = !0;
t.src = v;
s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];
s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);
(window, document, ‘script’,
‘
fbq(‘init’, ‘586935388485447’);
fbq(‘init’, ‘315552255725686’);
fbq(‘track’, ‘PageView’);
Source of data and images: variety
