We’ll just say it: Game-show cold opens > Oval Office cold opens. It’s a provable fact, as demonstrated by Maya Rudolph, putting on one of her sillier voices as “Cece Vuvuzela,†on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live. The host kicked off a fun episode with “Snatched! Vaxed! or Waxed!â€, a dating-show parody set in Miami Beach during spring break for reckless pandemic partiers, because “we are so close to the end; let’s ruin it!†Contestants include Chloe Fineman, who goes to “the University of High School where I major in Homeroom,†and who’s “on Florida Adderall — meth — so yeah, I’m snatched.†Ego Nwodim is “Poots,†who’s going to Zoom school to be a therapist. Her game-show prize is to visit the Versace Murder Steps alone. The absolute best and dumbest joke is when Rudolph names the show’s sponsor: “AstraZeneca: We put the ass in vassine.†Yes, the world we live in is absurd. Thank God we have Maya Rudolph to make dumb jokes about it.
Maya Rudolph Is a Matchmaker for Spring Break Doofuses in SNL Cold Open
