CNN –
“Saturday Night Live” opened its show this week by testing the temperament of contestants who read news headlines in a game show called “So You Think You Won’t Go Broke!”
“Have you noticed that everyone around you is angry and mad? People are circling Target, the stabbings are back, and the only thing that can cheer us up is watching a sexy show about Jeffrey Dahmer,” said host Morgan Freegirl, played by Bowen Yang, referring to a duo of shows recent Netflix true-crime shows “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” and “Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes.”
“We live on the edge, and tonight I’m here to push us as we play ‘So You Think You Won’t Snap!'” says Bowen’s Freegirl.
The fictional game show brought together a group of contestants that it called “the only people in America who haven’t been hooked yet.”
One of the contestants, Kayla, played by Chloe Fineman, is a mom who says she’s curious about fishing. He tells Freegirl that he has four children and doesn’t have time to worry about anything else.
Kayla is then read a series of headlines about Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker and a study that found “86% of kids today say that when they grow up, their dream job is an influence”.
Increasingly agitated, Fineman’s Kayla says, “This is going to sound stupid, but my kids love video games.”
Next, Yang’s Freegirl shows a clip from the “Super Mario Bros. Movie” trailer released this week that featured Chris Pratt voicing the game’s iconic Italian plumber, Mario.
“He’s supposed to be Italian! That’s like his whole thing,” Kayla exclaims after hearing Pratt’s performance. He then crashes and hits a flight attendant who was nearby.
The next contestant is Dale, played by Kenan Thompson, who is placed in front of a table of things that he can easily sweep to the floor. Yang’s Freegirl begins by saying, “This week, Elon Musk…” before being interrupted by Dale shouting and sweeping all the breakable items off the table. “This man needs to shut his mouth!” Thompson’s Dale screams.
After sending another contestant over the edge with headlines about Kanye West’s recent fashion show, during which he dressed himself and several black models in T-shirts that read “White Lives Matter,” Yang’s Freegirl quipped: “When we come back, we’ll show an 80.” -man of years an episode of ‘Euphória'”.
The sketch’s cast then reunited for the show’s catchphrase, “Live… from New York. It’s Saturday night!”