'Saturday Night Live' lampoons GOP Sen. Katie Britt's State of the Union response

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'Saturday Night Live' lampoons GOP Sen. Katie Britt's State of the Union response
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Scarlett Johansson made a surprise appearance on the NBC sketch comedy show to poke fun at the Republican rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union address.

Scarlett Johansson made a surprise appearance on the NBC sketch comedy show to poke fun at the Republican rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union address.Alabama Sen. Katie Britt speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on December 7, 2023. Britt delivered the Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address on Thursday.Alabama Sen. Katie Britt speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on December 7, 2023.

Britt, 42, gave a dramatic rebuttal from her kitchen on Thursday, calling Biden a"dithering and diminished leader." Noting that she was a wife and mother of two children, Britt suggested that Americans are fearful about record immigration and anxious about the state of the economy.Katie Britt used a decades-old example of rapes in Mexico in GOP response to Biden

Just days later, the NBC sketch comedy show mocked Britt's speech, with Scarlett Johansson making a surprise appearance to play the "I have the honor of serving the great people of Alabama, but tonight I'll be auditioning for the part of scary mom," Johansson quipped."And I'll be performing an original monologue called: This Country is Hell."Johansson repeatedly poked fun at the sometimes intense tone of Britt's speech."Kitchens are where families have the hard conversations, like the one we'll have tomorrow about how mommy freaked out the entire country," she said.

The State of the Union opposition response can transform a relatively unknown politician into a household name, but the task of speaking to an often empty room is also notoriously challenging.But other SOTU responses have been delivered by politicians who would one day end up in the Oval Office, including former Arkansas Governor

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