The growing coronavirus outbreak has been the biggest news story of the last seven days, and it was the dominating topic on Saturday Night Live, hosted by Daniel Craig. Following a coronavirus-them…
, for a wedding reception skit that touched on the ongoing health crisis. Dratch, who had been a regular presence onin the past couple of months portraying former presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar, showed up at the reception wearing a full-face gas mask looking to avoid contracting the contagious disease. ‘
In typical Debbie Downer fashion, the joyous occasion that a wedding is had no impact on her downcast mood, which she tried to pass onto everyone else with her signature awkward comments., a skit parodying a daytime soap, in which Following CDC’s guidelines for safe interactions during the outbreak, the actors used tissues and Lysol when their characters had to pick up the phone or open the door and kept their distance and shook hands and hugged from afar.
“At this point, between Bernie, Biden and Trump I think the next debate should just be on that cruise ship, and whichever one of them can beat coronavirus becomes out next president,” Colin Jost quipped, referring to the cruise ship that is being kept off the coast of San Francisco with multiple afflicted passengers on board.
There were jokes about Trump’s response to the virus, including the President’s recent comment that he has “natural ability” for the coronavirus. Watch below the segment, which also includes a joke by Michael Che about democrats and condoms that drew big laughs.
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