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Saturday Night Live Recap: Chris Rock Stars in a Christmas Miracle
Chris Rock oversees a freewheeling episode full of delightfully unpredictable moments.
The ongoing saga of an assassinated UnitedHealthcare CEO has by now taken up so much oxygen in office Slacks, all forms of media, and also your holiday party, its presence in this Saturday Night Live cold open was practically inevitable. Although the sketch over-indexes on our obsession with alleged shooter Luigi Mangione’s looks (“Dave Franco’s face with Eugene Levy’s eyebrows”) rather than the meaning of his actions, perhaps the writers just correctly expect that we’re all burned out on that discourse at this point. • Kirby — the racist, misogynist automobile at the center of the Grandpa’s Magic Car sketch — splits the difference between Disney’s Herbie and Stephen King’s Christine throughout, giving the King-like ending more punch.
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