This time last year, the Covid pandemic forced Saturday Night Live to cancel its planned Christmas episode and throw together a makeshift special without an audience or most of their cast. Despite the current Covid spike, things are back to normal at studio 8h this holiday season.
We kick things off with a message from former president Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), who shamelessly hawks his ridiculous new line of NFTs, which “seems like a scam and in many ways it is”. Trump shows off the various “trading cards” that see him dressed up like an astronaut, romance novel cover model, and Jessica Rabbit, before delivering a free-associative rundown in which he rambles about A Christmas Carol (“Last night I was visited by three ghosts, including, actually, I think it was four if you count Epstein”), Ron “DeSanta”, and Avatar.
