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Cirque du So-What

(25,965 posts) Tue Jan 19, 2021, 07:50 PM Jan 2021

Someone with connections to Lorne Michaels or another SNL bigwig

needs to suggest that Kate McKinnon reprise her role of Hillary Clinton playing Hallelujah on piano. Can you imagine a more powerful cold open?

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Someone with connections to Lorne Michaels or another SNL bigwig (Original Post) Cirque du So-What Jan 2021 OP

I agree Gothmog Jan 2021 #1

I've been preoccupied a lot today, hadn't seen that performance on the mall Cirque du So-What Jan 2021 #2

That would be fabulous! apcalc Jan 2021 #3

I get your drift, but... zentrum Jan 2021 #4

It need not be humorous Cirque du So-What Jan 2021 #5

Gothmog

(145,481 posts)

1. I agree

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Original post)

Tue Jan 19, 2021, 07:51 PM

Jan 2021

Link to tweet

Cirque du So-What

(25,965 posts)

2. I've been preoccupied a lot today, hadn't seen that performance on the mall

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 19, 2021, 07:55 PM

Jan 2021

apcalc

(4,465 posts)

3. That would be fabulous!

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Original post)

Tue Jan 19, 2021, 08:00 PM

Jan 2021

zentrum

(9,865 posts)

4. I get your drift, but...

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Original post)

Tue Jan 19, 2021, 08:04 PM

Jan 2021

…considering how somber and serious things are right now—400,000 dead and 5 dead from the Capital insurrection, the humor could blow back on us in a way not intended.

Cirque du So-What

(25,965 posts)

5. It need not be humorous

Reply to zentrum (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 19, 2021, 08:06 PM

Jan 2021

I sure as shit didn’t see any humor the first time, and if she plays it straight, it’d be sublimely bittersweet.

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