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SNL uses its cold open to skewer Ted Cruz over his Big Bird vaccine tweet

In a Saturday Night Live sketch, Sen. Ted Cruz, played by Aidy Bryant, hosts a right-wing alternative to the children's television program Sesame Street.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., departs from the Senate chamber following a vote on Nov. 3 in Washington, D.C.

opened last night's show with a send-up of Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who earlier this month said a tweet from a children's television character — in's Big Bird discusses his COVID-19 vaccination — was "government propaganda."

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