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Saturday Night Live: Jonathan Majors and Taylor Swift can’t save ho-hum episode

After a noticeable uptick in the quality of cold opens of late, Saturday Night Live is back to whiffing them. Tonight’s episode gets off to a poor start with Cruz Street, a conservative version of Sesame Street hosted by the “Texas senator and the last one invited to Thanksgiving”, Ted Cruz (Aidy Bryant). Cruz’s talks to a gun-toting Marjorie Taylor Greene (Cecily Strong) and “resident medical expert” Joe Rogan (Pete Davidson), while also railing against vaccination mandates, CRT (Critical Race Theory, or, “Caucasian Rights Trampled”) and President Joe Biden’s social safety net bill.

A totally scattershot opener – Chloe Fineman shows up as Britney Spears towards the end to deliver a single line – it picks at some

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