Chauvin trial newscast takes an awkward turn into racial issues on the 'SNL' cold open

Welcome to the "I would've voted for Obama a third time" of Saturday Night Live cold opens.

The sketch show's latest episode kicked of with a newscast send-up featuring two Black hosts and two white hosts in Minnesota discussing the trial of Derek Chauvin. It doesn't go well. While everyone at the table is friendly and seems to mean while, the white hosts (Kate McKinnon and Alex Moffat) repeatedly turn to trite, saccharine expressions of hope and positivity for the U.S. justice system while the Black hosts (Ego Nwodim and Kenan Thompson, with occasional assists from the weatherman played by Chris Redd) are more realistic about the history and systemic injustice that make a "Guilty" outcome for Chauvin anything but a certainty. Read more...

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