In a rare and surprising example of restraint, this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live avoids diving straight into The Thing, save for a brief mention late in its cold open. Instead, the show opens with a new episode of Fox & Friends that sees morning talkshow hosts and rightwing stooges Steve Doocy (Alex Moffat), Ainsley Earhardt (Heidi Gardner) and Brian Kilmeade (Mikey Day) lob softball questions at supreme court justice Clarence Thomas (Kenan Thompson) and wife Ginni (Kate McKinnon).
Justice Thomas is cagey about his recent hospitalization, while Ginny – AKA, “the Yoko Ono of the supreme court” – unconvincingly denies her role in the Capitol riot, even as she can’t help but call upon “a tidal wave of biblical vengeance to wash away the Biden crime family all the way to Gitmo.”
