Joe Biden Octogenarian Jokes & Praise Turns ‘SNL’ Cold Open Old & Tired Fast
deadline.com“Good afternoon, I’m Dana Bash, and welcome to Inside Politics,” announced the ever-dependable Chloe Fineman at the promising top of Saturday Night Live’s clearly politically inclined cold open tonight. “Later, we’ll give Wolf Blitzer an edible and an hour to solve the Middle East” Then it was right into Joe Biden’s latest bad poll numbers and a very unlikely Gov.
Gavin Newsom, as played by featured player Michael Longfellow, pumping it up for Uncle Joe. With Biden’s status as the oldest Commander-in-Chief ever the core of the cold opening, the sometimes stumbling and confused POTUS got credit not just for a good economy, but also Beyonce going country, and McDonald’s return of the Shamrock Shake. “The software might be in Beta, but the man is in Alpha,” Longfellow’s Newsom praised 81-year-old Biden in language that the Golden State surrogate with White House aspirations of his own may have or will soon use.
Even with Ego Nwodin coming on as WH Press Secretary Karine jean-Pierre, this felt like another one of those very forced SNL cold openings.
You know, the ones where they are trying to be so topical and so ripped from the headlines that it ends up with shards of humor at best.
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