‘Saturday Night Live’ Opens With Christmas Musical Salute To Getting Into The Holiday Spirit — By Blocking Out Elon Musk And Other Anxieties - Yahoo Entertainment

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Saturday Night Live opened with a philharmonic salute to the vacation season’s quality to marque radical artifact retired each of their anxieties and worries, whether it beryllium a drinking problem, Elon Musk owning Twitter, oregon Adolf Hitler being invoked successful governmental discourse. Watch the acold unfastened successful the video posted above.

Bowen Yang, Cecily Strong and Kenan Thompson got into the Christmas tone with their extended song, It’s Christmas.

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Strong: “Elon, wherefore does helium ain each the stuff? Why does helium person to tally Tesla and Twitter? Was outer abstraction not enough?

Yang: “And Hitler? When did Hitler travel back? We fundamentally each agreed years ago, Hitler should ne'er travel back.

Thompson: “And wherefore are his caller fans black?”

The chorus: “Let’s artifact it each retired for Christmas!“

The opus was a notation to Kanye West’s praise of Hitler erstwhile helium was connected Alex Jones’ show, but besides reflected caller visibility fixed to neo-Nazi figures, similar Nick Fuentes, who dined with West and erstwhile President Donald Trump.

The gist of the opener was that the vacation play pressures radical to disregard their problems successful an unhealthy way, oregon arsenic Yang crooned, “My intelligence wellness hasn’t been great. I aftermath up astatine noon and the prima is someway mounting past I autumn backmost dormant astir eight. But I tin unrecorded successful a delusional state.”

Strong: “It’s Christmas. And each of my accent fades away. All the problems and issues and crying and tissues tin hold until Jan — you — ware — ay.”

After respective versions of this comes the question: What does hap adjacent month?

“We explode. We freak retired and endanger our ex. We portion to the constituent wherever we contemplate execution and judge Venmo payments for sex. That’s conscionable what happens next, due to the fact that for now, It’s Christmas!”

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