SNL dreams up a Fauci-hosted game show where contestants vie for the vaccine - The Washington Post

On Saturday, the cold open assumed one of the SNL’s more reliable formats: the fake talk show.

Fauci (Kate McKinnon) hosts a show titled “So You Think You Can Get the Vaccine,” in which contestants present arguments for why they should get the coronavirus vaccine.

“Getting the vaccine shouldn’t be a competition, but Americans will only want to get it if someone else can’t,” says McKinnon’s Fauci, who refers to himself as “America’s voice of reason and celebrity hall pass, for some reason.”.

Those who don’t, SNL’s Fauci says, will go home with a Pfizer Visor, “a visor with the world Pfizer on it.”.

The pregnant woman (Melissa Villaseñor) who wants the vaccine, only to be told by the governors that they don’t know if it’s safe for her.

Anyway, as luck would have it, SNL’s Fauci announces, a nearby CVS has lost power and its store of vaccines are going bad — so it’s first come, first served.

Aside from the tired Cruz bit, Saturday’s cold open was arguably the strongest of 2021.