Saturday Night Live opened its first show of the year this weekend with an appearance by everyoneās favorite openly gay, truthfully-challenged freshman congressman. Bowen Yang joined fellow cast members Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, James Austin Johnson, Devon Walker, and Molly Kearney in a Fox Sports post-game parody immediately following Saturday nightās NFC divisional matchup between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles.
āWhen we saw this guyās resume we had to give him a shot,ā Day as Howie Long said, introducing āSantos.ā āHeisman Trophy winner, more championships than Tom Brady; please welcome Congressman George Santos!ā
As the New York congressman infamous for allegedly fabricating his entire resume ahead of his election in November, Yang poked fun at Santosās seeming ability to brazenly lie.
āGeorge Santos here reporting live from the Super Bowl,ā Yang droned. (The character was not reporting from the Super Bowl.)
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āCongrats on an amazing career,ā James Austin Johnson as NFL Fox commentator Jimmie Johnson said. āI didnāt even know you played football, but Iām seeing here that you were the first player to lead the league in passing and rushing?ā
āThatās correct,ā Yang said. āIām sort of the real Bo Jackson, and Iām proud to be the first African American quarterback to ever dunk a football.ā
The real Santos, of course, has allegedly lied about playing college volleyball and about his heritage, among many other aspects of his biography.
Yangās āSantoā went on to fib about dominating in the NY-Philly game and receiving an Oscar from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. When Day pointed out that āSantosāsā state wasnāt accurate, Yang retorted that he definitely didnāt do drag in Brazil.
āWhoever did though was very, very good at it and won many, many pageants,ā Yang, as Santos, lied.
Later, Yang returned in full drag as āKitara Ravache,ā the name the real Santos allegedly used when in drag, to deliver her own overblown performance stats and perform a remix of the Fox Football anthem.
Yang returned as Santos on the episodeās āWeekend Updateā segment, claiming to be a scientist behind a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. During the skit, āSantosā claimed to take a call from Madonna, that he was the virgin in āLike a Virgin,ā that his ancestors told Anne Frank to write her diary, to represent a district in āLong Island, NJ,ā and to be āBalloon Boy.ā
āI just donāt understand why Republicans wonāt condemn you,ā SNLās Colin Jost said. āI mean, they promoted you to two committee assignments.ā
āYeah, of course, they did, Colin,ā Yang replied. āIām a team player and the sport is lies.ā
