The 'Saturday Night Live' cold open had President Joe Biden (James Austin Johnson) blaming the rise in omicron cases on the December release of 'Spider-Man: No Way Home.'
The cold open kicked off with an important message from President Joe Biden, portrayed by featured player James Austin Johnson, about the surge in omicron cases nationwide. Johnson addressed the string of unfortunate events caused by COVID-19, from disrupted holidays and canceled weddings to how it’s affecting children in school. Luckily, he had a solution.
“I’m sorry, did you really just blame the entire spread of omicron on people seeing ‘Spider-Man?’” asked Nwodim's skeptical reporter, while Yang's character tried to get the president to clarify, asking if the pandemic might end if people stopped going to the movies in general. When Yang and Gardner asked about the president’s thoughts on experts worried about the difficulty of getting a coronavirus test, Johnson had a simple,"Spider-Man"-based solution.
"Mr. President, it sounds like you want people to stop seeing ’Spider-Man.’ But do you think that elsewhere in the multiverse that there’s a version of you that wants people to see ‘Spider-Man?’” asked Dismukes' character, referencing a science-fiction theory that there are multiple universes, with different timelines playing out in each.
"I mean, seriously! Don’t you wake up every morning, look at the news, and think ‘This can’t be right. This is all crazy!’?” Johnson asked.
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