SNL decides Tom Brady is 'the only thing in America that still works' in latest cold open

Kate McKinnon and John Krasinksi.
(Image credit: Screenshot/YouTube/NBC)

Saturday Night Live returned to the airwaves Saturday night after its winter hiatus, and the show jumped out of the gate with a cold open parodying Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the GameStop saga, Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerburg, and O.J. Simpson.

In the skit, Kate McKinnon interviews the SNL version of those figures while questioning whether anything in the United States still works. The answer, McKinnon begins to realize, is no, except for her final guest, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady (played by host John Krasinski), who, at age 43, is headed to his 10th Super Bowl. Watch the full clip below. Tim O'Donnell

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.