Following the trend of last week’s cold open, Saturday Night Live opted for a new television show sketch to hit on this week’s mix of news and controversies.
Instead of a game show, SNL opted for a fictional talk show hosted by Britney Spears (played by Chloe Fineman) called “Oops You Did It Again.” Fineman’s Spears explained the show “spotlights pariahs of the week” and after speaking with all her guests, Spears would determine who is “innocent or not that innocent.”
Fineman-as-Spears had quite a roster to go through with rapper Lil Nas X (played by Chris Redd), Looney Tunes character Pepé Le Pew, (played by Kate McKinnon) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (played by Pete Davidson).
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The first guest for the show was Redd’s Lil Nas X, who Fineman-as-Spears said “has been attacked by the rare combo of the Catholic Church and Nike” following the debut of his “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” music video and shoe collaboration that contains human blood.
Redd’s Lil Nas confirmed there was indeed blood in each of his controversial shoes but added he was following Nike’s slogan. “Their whole thing is just do it. I did it.” As for criticism over his latest music video in which the rapper slides down a stripper pole into Hell and twerks on Satan, Redd’s Lil Nas said, “People are afraid of me because I’m different, but really I’m just your typical gay, Black, country, rap sneaker entrepreneur. I put my pants on like everyone else: one ass-less chap at a time.”
He also noted that the Satan in his video isn’t the actual devil because “the real Satan doesn’t do music videos.”
Kate McKinnon’s Pepé Le Pew came onto the show to discuss why they had been removed from appearing in Space Jam 2. “I would kiss you all the way up your arm,” McKinnon’s Le Pew said to Fineman’s Spears, but reminded himself that’s inappropriate behavior.
When asked what his role was meant to be in the sequel to the 1996 hit comedy, McKinnon’s Le Pew explained “My part was, I see a basketball in a blonde wig and I make love to it for 10 to 15 minutes before LeBron James taps me on the back and says, ‘Bro, that’s a basketball.'”
McKinnon’s Le Pew admitted they were going into treatment for sex addiction but noted they should not be seen as someone who promotes “a culture of assault.” The fictional skunk said, “I’m an actor. The part you see me play on TV and in the movies, that’s not me. I would love to be at a point in my career where I could turn down projects but there’s not a lot of parts for an old French skunk. The parts come down to me and Gérard Depardieu, and if you think I am the problem, I have two words for you: Speedy Gonzales. And you didn’t hear this from me but the FBI is 99 percent sure Yosemite Sam was at the Capitol riots.”
The final guest on the show was Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, played by Pete Davidson, who Fineman-as-Spears described “is a hot mess” and “a full-on sex pest.”
Fineman’s Spears described Gaetz’s recent controversial headlines as “so incredibly Florida” and “bizarre” that she needed to clarify a few things.
“You were dating a 17-year-old and brought her on trips along state lines? Prostitutes said you took ecstasy and had sex with them in Florida hotel rooms? And your Republican colleagues in Congress say you showed them nude photos of women you were sleeping with?” she asked.
Davidson-as-Gaetz uncomfortably responded “allegedly” to the claims but Fineman-as-Spears wasn’t buying it. The singer noted she could spot a teen predator when she sees one because “after all, I was on the Mickey Mouse Club.”
As the show concluded, the pop culture singer gave her verdicts for all three guests. Fineman’s Spears found Lil Nas X innocent, Le Pew “not that innocent,” and for Gaetz, she concluded she could not legally call him innocent or guilty. Instead, she encouraged her audience to “judge him by his face.”
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