Saturday Night Live Skit Star Trek Spinoff

 Star Trek has been one of the television shows that Saturday Night Live has parodied many times throughout the years. John Belushi did captain Kirk and Patrick Stewart was on the show himself when he did a spoof that made fun of his own character from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

This new skit centers around two self centered white twenty somethings that just graduated from a exclusive starfleet training academy. The young crewmembers are played by Carey Mulligan and Mikey Day. As the ship faces certain destruction by being pulled closer and closer to a blackhole the duo continuously wreaks chaos on the bridge by making themselves the center of fake drama.

This is not the best Star Trek skit I have seen SNL come up with but it has some good laughs. The whole cast comes out for this one with Beck Bennett playing the captain, Kate McKinnon as the 1st officer and the rest of the crewmembers are filled in by Ego Nwodim, Alex Moffat, Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman.

Saturday Night Live Skit Biden Spider-Man Cold Open

This season 47 episode 10 Saturday Night Live skit is another cold open featuring James Austin Johnson as President Joe Biden. 

In this sketch the President has figured out what is causing the spread of the Omicron covid variant. It all seems to have started around the same time the new Spider-Man No Way Home movie came out. He is convinced that the problem will go away once every stops seeing Spider-Man for the 100th time.

It seems that nearly the whole cast was in on this was. The Whitehouse reporters are played by Bowen Yang, Ego Nwodim and Andrew Dismukes. Pete Davidson also makes an appearance as another version of Biden from  Marvel's multiverse. Apparently this dimensions President Biden is not the real one but was created as a joke.

This cold open SNL sketch was a lot of laughs. I really enjoyed it. James Austin Johnson does a tremendous job or portraying the President in a way that really brings out the hilarity of the character. This is a magnified version of Joe Biden that doesn't exactly fit with reality but it works and it has the crowd rolling in the aisles.

I look forward to more Joe Biden parodies like this. It reminds me of the fun the cast use to have in the Bush W. era. Or if you want to go even further back, the Reagan Presidency.