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<em>SNL </em>Serves Up a Disgusting Highlight

The show acknowledged the crisis in Ukraine while sticking to its comfort zone. Then it made a turn to the bizarre.
Source: NBC

After the first week of , viewers may have tuned in to this week’s with some curiosity and fear about how the show would tackle the biggest news story in the world. The series had gone the quiet and respectful route by having the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York replace the usual episode-opening antics. But at a certain point, audiences surely expect, the show will commenting on balance sensitivity and satire while, say, riffing on President Vladimir Putin’s bizarre TV appearances, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s , or the purported morale problems among Russian forces?

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