"Saturday Night Live"’s President Biden (performed by James Austin Johnson) had an answer to the current surge in coronavirus instances throughout the present's chilly open this weekend: "Stop seeing ‘Spider-Man!’"
"Spider-Man: No Way Home" has topped the field workplace for a number of weeks after premiering in mid-December.
"Think about it. When did ‘Spider-Man’ come out?" Johnson’s Biden mused at a pretend information convention within the sketch. "Dec. 17. When did every single person get omicron? The week after Dec. 17. Stop seeing ‘Spider-Man!’"
The pretend Biden then took questions from reporters – performed by different "SNL" forged members. One in every of them requested if the president if he was attempting to assert the pandemic would finish if folks stopped going to the flicks.
"I didn’t say ‘Don’t go to the movies’ – I said ‘Stop seeing Spider-Man!'" Johnson's Biden repeated.
James Austin Johnson performs President Joe Biden on "Saturday Night Live," Oct. 2, 2021. (Getty Photos)
Johnson stated his knowledge was primarily based on: "Everybody in America has seen ‘Spider-Man' like eight times. Everyone in America also has COVID."
He advised that Americans didn’t must take a COVID-19 take a look at to search out out if they've the virus.
"Look at your hand. Is it holding a ticket that says you recently went to see ‘Spider-Man?’ If so, then you have COVID," he claimed.
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Johnson’s Biden later defined he hasn’t seen the film as a result of he couldn’t get tickets, suggesting his motive for asking patrons to not go could have been so he would have a neater time getting a seat.
The pretend president additionally expanded ‘Spider-Man’’s culpability to incorporate this yr’s file inflation and the stalling of the Democrats' voting rights invoice in Congress. Johnson in contrast reasonable Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to villains who battle the superhero.
Folks coming into a movie show in Antwerp, Belgium, Friday, Dec. 24, 2021.
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"The only difference is if one of Spider-Man's villains saw Kyrsten Sinema they'd be like, ‘Hey, honey, that outfit is a little much.’"
Later, he revealed he had found we're all current in a ‘Spider-Man’-style multiverse during which there are at the very least three Joe Bidens: "One of them is me, one of them is a Joe Biden that lost to Trump. That Biden hosts a show on CNBC called ‘T-Birds, Tacos and Trains.’ And then there’s a third Joe Biden who’s the greatest president in history. My approval ratings are sky-high, I’m actually supported by my own party and I understand the show ‘Euphoria.’"
When a reporter balked on the thought everybody resides in a multiverse, Johnson countered: "Doesn’t that make more sense than whatever the hell our current world is?"
President Joe Biden delivers remarks throughout an occasion within the State Eating Room of the White Home, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, in Washington.
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On the finish of the sketch forged member Pete Davidson appeared as a shirtless, tattooed model of Biden from the "real universe." He warned the timeline the remainder of us reside in is "about to collapse" after it was created as a joke in 2016 when the Chicago Cubs received the World Sequence.
Davidson advised the opposite Biden that within the "real" universe he wasn’t president.
"Did you really think you would lose four times and then finally win when you were 78?" he requested.
Davidson then advised Biden he wanted to rush via a portal to the "real" world earlier than the present one collapses. Johnson's Biden stated he would come again for everybody else after he was in a position to go his still-stalled Construct Again Higher social spending invoice there.
However Davidson corrected him: "Dude, even in the ‘real’ world that thing’s not passing."
Actress Ariana DeBose guest-hosted the Jan. 15 episode and Bleachers carried out because the musical visitor.
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