‘Saturday Night Live’ Gives A Send Off To Expelled Congressman George Santos In A Fabulist Cold Open
deadline.comSaturday Night Live went with the big political news of the week for its cold open, giving a musical send off to now expelled fabulist congressman George Santos.
Bowen Yang plays Santos as a victimized con man, singing a new rendition of Elton John’s Candle in the Wind: Goodbye, Congress queen, they’ll never know anything about me at all because I lied about everything in my life.
Then I took a tragic fall. They crawled out of the woodwork. They whispered, ‘He used my donations for Botox, and I said, it was filler, slut!
Santos was ousted on Friday in a bipartisan vote of the House of Representatives, following the release of a devastating Ethics Committee report that accused him of stealing campaign funds for personal expenses, including spa treatments and OnlyFans.
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