The SNL sketch has the hosts of Fox & Friends discussing Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against the network.
Saturday Night Live kicked off its newest episode with its cold open segment skewering Fox & Friends. The sketch took aim at the recent lawsuit that’s been filed against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems for allegedly intentionally airing election fraud conspiracy theories. With Mikey Day as Steve Doocy, Heidi Gardner as Ainsley Earhardt, and Bowen Yang as Brian Kilmeade, the segment imagines the Fox & Friends hosts explaining why the network isn’t giving more coverage to this news. You can watch the video below.
“Rupert Murdoch admitted that Fox News aired election fraud conspiracies to get ratings even though everyone at Fox knew they were false,” Day’s Doocy says.
“Uh-oh, I didn’t, loop a brother in next time,” Yang’s Kilmeade responds.
When Gardner’s Earhardt asks why such a big story hasn’t been covered more on Fox, Kilmeade ponders, “I think it’s because they’re suing us for $1.6 billion.”
The segment also includes a special appearance from My Pillow founder Mike Lindell, as played by James Austin Johnson. In the real-life lawsuit, Lindell is named as he’d made appearances on Fox programming to promote alleged election fraud. The SNL parody has the Fox & Friends hosts warning Lindell to choose his words carefully, but he can’t seem to help himself from heading into conspiracy territory.
“No problem, I’ve been briefed, I know the rules… every Dominion machine has a Venezuelan Oompa Loompa inside that eats the votes with its little mouth!” he says. “Let me choose my words more carefully. Dominion Voting Machines give triple votes to Democrats, illegals and that lady M&M that stopped shaving her pits!”
It seems like the segment cannot get any more bizarre when Lindell pulls ow a pillow with a face colored onto it, which he introduces as his wife, but it does. The sketch then introduces O.J. Simpson (Kenan Thompson) as their new crime expert, which even baffles the alleged double-murderer himself.
“Man, I don’t know why everybody thinks I’m the expert on this, booking me on the show without telling me why,” Simpson laments.
In reality, Fox News attorneys say that the quotes have been taken out of context and that they had a journalistic duty to report upon the claims that were made at the time by Donald Trump and his allies.
“Dominion’s lawsuit has always been more about what will generate headlines than what can withstand legal and factual scrutiny, as illustrated by them now being forced to slash their fanciful damages demand by more than half a billion dollars after their own expert debunked its implausible claims,” a statement from the Fox News legal team reads, via CBS. “Their summary judgment motion took an extreme, unsupported view of defamation law that would prevent journalists from basic reporting and their efforts to publicly smear Fox for covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting President of the United States should be recognized for what it is: a blatant violation of the First Amendment.”
Saturday Night Live Will Return with Host Jenna Ortega
Super Bowl winner Travis Kelce served as the host of the new SNL episode with Kelsea Ballerini as the musical guest. The show will be back on March 11 with Wednesday star Jenna Ortega also making her guest hosting debut. She’ll be joined by musical guest The 1975.
You can stream the new episode of Saturday Night Live on Peacock.
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