Will Forte Brings Back Anti-Mask, Anti-Vax MacGruber for ‘SNL’

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterFormer “Saturday Night Live” cast member Will Forte made his hosting debut this week, reviving his beloved character MacGruber.

It turns out, though, that MacGruber has been taken in by the anti-vax crowd.The first MacGruber sketch of the night saw the action hero and his cohorts Vicki (Kristen Wiig) and Piper (Ryan Phillippe) trapped in a small room with a bomb about to go off.

All three are wearing face masks.“I know this whole COVID situation has really changed the game, so we got to be smart about this, okay?” MacGruber says. “We’re in a small room with very limited airflow.” He then asks Vicki and Piper for their face masks, takes his own off as well, and sets all three on fire.

When asked why, he says, “We need every drop of oxygen we can get, which is impossible with these stupid face diapers. I can finally breathe.” He then presents the pair with an obviously fake vaccine card indicating he has received the “Fizer” vaccine.In the next bit, MacGruber is taking things slightly more seriously with a new face mask, but this one has a hole cut in it so he can “breathe.” When asked why the mask has a hole in it, he says it is so he doesn’t “suffocate from all the carbo-doxide.”He then treats himself with a double dose of both ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.