Biden turns to TikTokers for war strategy on ‘SNL’

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Charli D’Amelio and a 55-year-old man who had a toilet plunger stuck to his nipple.The sketch was barely far-fetched; White House officials briefed 30 viral acts on the app about the war on Thursday over Zoom on Thursday.“People are saying this is the first war fought on TikTok,” the president told the social stars. “This is tough for me because I’m the landline of presidents, that’s why I need you.

I understand Putin. I understand war. There’s one thing I don’t understand: computer.”“He means technology but he says ‘computer,'” said Press Secretary Jen Psaki, played by Kate McKinnon.Biden was taken aback when Aidy Bryant’s cute character accused his son Hunter of starting the war in Ukraine.“You don’t expect an animal makeup girl to be alt-right,” Johnson quipped.The skit came to an end as the camera zoomed in on the plunger stuck to Bowen Yang’s chest as he waxed poetic about his TikTok channel achieving peace in Europe.Host Zoë Kravitz shared her creative process for getting into character as Catwoman in “The Batman.”“To prepare for the role I watched the movie ‘Musical Cats’ everyday for a year which I heard is the same way Joaquin Phoenix prepared for ‘The Joker,'” Kravitz told the studio audience.A Cat-signal broadcast over Manhattan summoned Michelle Pfeiffer and Eartha Kitt’s Catwomen of yesteryear (McKinnon and Ego Nwodim) to interrupt her monologue, along with a cat lady played by Bryant, and comedian Katt Williams, spoofed by Chris Redd.In her first skit, Kravitz played a loose-lipped maid of honor that used her wedding reception speech to inform the groom (Kyle Mooney ) that the bride (Cecily Strong) drives drunk, slept with more than 900 men, and stormed the Capitol on Jan.