In the midst of a $1.6 billion lawsuit(Opens in a new tab) against corporate media giant Fox News, Saturday Night Live opened with a parody of Fox & Friends to discuss the latest allegations that Fox hosts knowingly lied about 2020 election fraud. Performers Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, and Bowen Yang played hosts as Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade respectively.
The lawsuit, filed by Dominion Voting Systems, alleges that Fox News executives and on-air personalities knew that claims of a rigged 2020 presidential election were not true, but that message kept getting promoted on Fox News’ airways. Just recently, Fox Corporation chair Rupert Murdoch admitted that some hosts did indeed promote falsehoods(Opens in a new tab) about the 2020 presidential contest being stolen.
“Now you may be wondering, if it’s such a big story why haven’t I heard about it on Fox,” Gardner says during the sketch.
“I think it’s because they’re suing us for $1.6 billion,” Yang responds back.
Throughout the sketch, the Fox & Friends crew try their “best” to fend off the allegations and even invite MyPillow CEO and prominent election fraud truther(Opens in a new tab) Mike Lindell onto the show live from CPAC. The special guest appearance does not go as planned when Lindell asserts that Dominion Voting Systems puts Venezuelan Oompa Loompa’s into their voting machines and gives “triple the votes to Democrats, illegals, and that lady M&M that stopped shaving her pits.”
