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‘Saturday Night Live’ Mixes a Super Bowl Preview with Politics (Watch)
Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVTypically the cold opens of “Saturday Night Live” parody the politics of the past week, but for its second show of 2021, the NBC late-night sketch comedy series looked ahead — to Sunday’s Super Bowl.Kenan Thompson, who portrayed sportscaster James Brown in the sketch, kicked things off acknowledging the complications of late, but that ” today we come together in the spirit of football — and to murder millions of chickens for their delicious wings.”However, given what the NFL has gone through in recent months with new COVID health and safety guidelines and a high volume of players testing position, that became part of the discussion for Thompson’s Brown, Chris Redd’s Nate Burleson, Mikey Day’s