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Amid an election year with promises of divergent visions of America, 'Saturday Night Live' dove in to the politics of 2024 to find punchlines. The show opened with a satirical television special celebrating Easter, 'The Resurrection,' which recounts the story of three women who witnessed the return of Jesus.
It made him reluctant, he said, to speak in Arabic in public when his mother called. 'Mother, peace be upon you and the prophet you know,' he said he told her in English. 'You know which prophet. The best one. The last one.' He wondered if someone from President Joe Biden's campaign would call again, as they did in 2020, when he was asked to stump for the president in Michigan, which has a significant Arab American population.
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