Scarlett Johansson opens SNL as Katie Britt ‘auditioning for the part of scary mom’: Watch it here
Well, it was bound to happen.
After U.S. Sen. Katie Britt’s Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union unleashed many late night and social media jokes, Scarlett Johansson played the part of Alabama’s junior senator for tonight’s Saturday Night Live cold open.
“Tonight I’ll be auditioning for the part of scary mom and I’ll be performing an original monologue called ‘this country is hell,’ The Avengers star said in the same ‘strange, empty’ kitchen setting as Britt’s speech.
The GOP, she said, chose the setting because “women love kitchen.” She also said it’s where families have hard conversations, “like the one we’ll have tomorrow about how Mommy freaked out the entire country.”
“You see, I’m not just a Senator. I’m a wife, a mother, and the craziest bitch in a Target parking lot,” she said.
She then did “a pivot out of nowhere into a shockingly violent story about sex trafficking,” a reference to Karla Jacinta Romero, who was sexually assaulted 20 years ago in Mexico, not in recent years in the United States, as Britt implied in her rebuttal.
“Rest assure every detail about it is real, except the year, where it took place, and who was president when it happened,” said Johansson, who is married to SNL’s Colin Jost.
She said she was also selling “gorgeous, bejeweled cross necklaces” like the one Britt is frequently seen wearing. “You can wear it from da church to da club.”
Also appearing in cold open was Kenan Thompson, as he Johansson recreated the tea stirring scene form “Get Out.”
Johansson as Britt closed out by warning Biden, “This isn’t the last you’ll see of Katie Britt. Maybe not in politics, but when you close your eyes I’ll be right there.”
Here is the entire cold open, featuring Mikey Day as Biden giving the State of the Union address with Ego Nwodim as CNN’s Abby Phillip and Heidi Gardner as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.