“Saturday Night Live” featured a high-dollar Super Bowl ad at the age of Covid-19 and QAnon.
The show opened with a deceptive rendition of the ‘Super Bowl LV Pregame Show’, featuring expert NFL commentators watching the game’s multimillion-dollar commercials.
“To reflect the importance of this moment in history, you see passionate advertising,” said former quarterback Phil Simms, played by Mikey Day. “This one almost brought me to tears.”
Images of marches and demonstrations appeared and a voice said, “We have once again learned that freedom is not free. But we must always strive for equality. And we must always strive for … Cheez-Its.”
The voice concludes: “Cheez-Its – historically delicious.”
Another ad announced the virtues of Papa John’s Pizza, including “real ingredients, no additives, no preservatives, and no sex trafficking with children in the basement.”
“Stop using your Q-pon today,” the mock narrator concluded.
Host James Brown, played by Kenan Thompson, praised Budweiser for accepting a classic Super Bowl ad to the present day.
The place contains the brewer’s Clydesdale horses, one of which kicks a syringe into the arm of an older woman. “Better get the second dose of cold, refreshing Bud Light,” the narrator of the ad said.
A subsequent sketch looked at how people behave when home orders continue to affect millions of Americans. At a small Super Bowl party, friends complain about the restrictions.
“I’m doing quarantine burnout,” says a character played by host Dan Levy.
A friend played by Beck Bennett said he limits his contacts outside the home and work.
“I’m a mouth massager,” he said of his work contacts. “I massage mouths.”
A friend played by Heidi Gardner said: ‘I do not understand how people still get sick. ‘
Anthony Fauci, played by Kate McKinnon, says the scene was a warning for ‘the wrong way to the Super Bowl’.
The game should be enjoyed, he said: “At home, in a mask, fire, no friends.”
The satirical news segment “Weekend Update” praised President Joe Biden for pursuing an economic stimulus plan.
Co-host Colin Jost said Biden is moving forward “without Republican support because this economy needs a massage and Joe Biden is not waiting for permission.”
Michael Che was amazed at the rise and political survival of U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had expressed faith in QAnon in the past and that 9/11 might not have been real.
“Greene apologized for her previous comments and said 9/11 absolutely happened,” Che said. “And to honor that day, Greene plans to hijack and crash the Republican Party.”
Jost introduced former president Donald Trump as “Former social media influencer Donald Trump.”
He has said he wants Trump to testify during his Senate indictment.
“I think I speak for all of us when I say, come, please,” Jost said. “Give us one last show.”
