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.
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.
"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 Governor5 takeaways from President Biden's State of the Union address
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