‘Saturday Night Live’ takes on North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in season opener
“Saturday Night Live” had a lot to catch up on from the summer as it returned for a 50th season, including new presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
But the venerable sketch comedy show also found time to feature the North Carolina political scandal making national headlines.
Yes, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson got the SNL treatment.
A sketch featured the embattled Republican candidate for governor, played by Kenan Thompson, as a contestant on a celebrity version of “The $100,000 Pyramid.” It paired Thompson’s impression of Robinson with Marcello Hernández as Bad Bunny.
In the sketch, the fictional Robinson — like the real one — denies authorship of the racist and sexually explicit comments posted on a pornographic website.
Then they play the game — in which the fictional Robinson is supposed to guess the word “drugs” with a clue from Hernández’s Bad Bunny: “If the cops find this on you, you go to jail.”
“My cell phone, my personal cell phone,” Thompson responds.
The next couple of answers also reference Robinson’s posts. Watch the full sketch below.
This story was originally published September 29, 2024 at 5:56 PM.
