'Saturday Night Live' pokes fun at Newsom, Cuomo in spoof vaccine game show
Following another
chaotic and
frustrating week of news involving problems associated with the COVID-19 vaccine distribution, "
Saturday Night Live" took a few jabs at a beleaguered Gov. Gavin Newsom and his own handling of the pandemic.
In the late-night comedy show’s opening sketch, Dr. Anthony Fauci, played by Kate McKinnon, introduced Newsom’s character as being “hated by every single person in California except for those 10 people he had dinner with in Napa that one time."
When asked how things were going in California, Newsom, played by Alex Moffat, responded: "Teeth, white. Body tight. Covid, pretty bad."
'Saturday Night Live' takes a few jabs at Gov. Gavin Newsom in this weekend's opening comedy sketch.
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'Saturday Night Live' pokes fun at Newsom, Cuomo in spoof vaccine game show
He was joined on stage by two other news-making governors: New York’s Andrew Cuomo (Pete Davidson) and Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer (Cecily Strong). The three served as judges in a made-up game show dubbed "So You Think You Can Get the Vaccine."
"The vaccine shouldn’t be a competition," Fauci (McKinnon) explained. "But Americans will only want to get it if it means someone else can’t."
These punch lines come days after
news broke that a California program intended to improve COVID-19 vaccine availability in hard-hit Black and Latino communities were being misused by the wealthy and more privileged. Special access codes had been provided to community groups to distribute to underserved areas — but
the codes instead began circulating in emails and group texts among younger people not yet eligible for the vaccine.
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