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Scarlett Johansson played Senator Katie Britt in a dead-on parody of the Republican State of the Union response on SNL.
As Britt told Johansson, “But tonight, I'll audition for the role of the scary mom. And I will present an original monologue titled This Country is Hell. You see, I'm not just a senator; I'm a wife, a mom, and the craziest woman in the Target parking lot. I'm worried about the future of my children and that's why I've invited you into this strange, empty kitchen. Because the Republicans wanted me to appeal to women voters and women love kitchens.
Brit's lies about the sex trafficking story didn't go unnoticed by SNL, “But first and foremost, I'm a mom. And like any mother, I'm suddenly going to present a shockingly violent story about sex trafficking. And rest assured, every detail about it is real, except the year it happened, where it happened, and who was president when it happened.''
SNL didn't miss GOP amnesia about 2020, “The kitchen is where tough conversations happen between families. As we will see tomorrow how the mother terrified the entire nation. But, y'all, Biden is the man who is destroying our country. Just ask yourself, are you in a better position today than you were four years ago? Back to the good old days of 2020, the year when nothing bad happened.”
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SNL threw the viewers a pleasant curveball, pretending they had been going to observe Biden's State of the Union tackle after which hand it over to Britt.
They needed to do Katie Britt. It's been two days now, and individuals are nonetheless speaking about her SOTU Republican response. It was such an enormous catastrophe. SNL works finest when it's on high of popular culture and political humor, and Scarlett Johansson as Katie Britt was one other star chilly open that labored.
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