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    <em>Saturday Night Live</em> Finally Digs Into the College-Admissions Scandal

    But rather than deepening its satire of the bizarre story, the show also went after the legal troubles of Julian Assange and Michael Avenatti.
    by Amanda Wicks Apr 14, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: NBC

    In recent weeks, Saturday Night Live has been too preoccupied with the chaos surrounding and the controversy over to meaningfully tackle a story that’s ripe for satirizing: the . The show’s two previous episodes mildly commented on an affair that has gripped since mid-March, including Michael Che’s quip about the behavior of wealthy people during “,” and a lambasting admissions panels for chasing potential students’ fame. But beyond those instances, the scandal has been largely been neglected.

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