Saturday Night Live cold opened with MyPillow’s Mike Lindell saying every Dominion voting machine has a ‘Venezuelan oompah loompah inside’ after Fox News hosts told him to ‘don’t say anything crazy’ amid lawsuit $1.6 billion.
SNL opened with the Fox and Friends host impersonators hosting the morning show, tentatively warning their guest to “not say anything crazy” after Dominion sued the company for billions after the hosts endorsed “stolen election lies.” “.
When MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, played by James Austin Johnson, appeared on the fake show, he immediately said he was in a “Biden dunk tank,” where people can dunk an impersonator underwater, calling the public activity an ‘explosion’.
Brian Kilmeade, played by Bowen Yang, immediately begins advising the CEO, who frequents the real network, to “please” not “spoke crazy about the domain” because of the lawsuit.
“Don’t worry, I’ve been informed, I know the rules,” Lindell says confidently before explaining that “every Dominion machine has a Venezuelan oompah loompah inside that eats the votes with its little mouth.”
SNL opened with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, played by James Austin Johnson (pictured), spouting lies about Dominion’s voting machines amid the $1.6B lawsuit
“Every Dominion machine has a Venezuelan oompah loompah inside that eats up votes with its little mouth,” Lindell said before the hosts told him to roll it up.
Steve Doocy, played by Mikey Day, interrupts him and says, ‘Mike… Mike, I’ve got to interrupt you, man. You know we can no longer be saying whatever.
Lindell agrees and says that he will choose his words carefully. Seconds later, in a sales pitch voice, she exclaims, “Dominion’s voting machines give triple the votes to Democrats, illegals, and that M&M lady who stopped shaving her armpits.”
Doocy yells, ‘Mike! Miguel! We’ll have to end it there!’
Lindell agrees that it’s “for the best” before pulling out a MyPillow with the face of a woman drawn on it, which he called his “wife”, before revealing that Dominion’s lawsuit has been a “nightmare” for him and your business.
Last month, Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch admitted that some of his Fox News hosts ‘endorsed’ false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump in his plea for the $1.6 billion lawsuit. Presented by Dominion Voting Systems.
Murdoch denied that Fox as a network endorsed the claims, but admitted that a collection of its hosts shared the “stolen election lies,” according to a transcript of the billionaire’s sworn testimony from last month.
“They backed it up,” Murdoch said of hosts Jeanine Pirro, Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo. He said former presenter Dobbs did ‘a lot’ and Hannity did ‘a little’.
“I wish we were stronger in calling it out with hindsight,” Murdoch added.
Brian Kilmeade, played by Bowen Yang (right), immediately begins warning the CEO, who frequents the real network, to “don’t say anything crazy about the domain” because of the lawsuit.
Mikey Day played Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy (left), Heidi Garner played Ainsley Earhardt (center), and Yang played Kilmeade (right)
Fox Corp’s Rupert Murdoch admitted his Fox News hosts promoted false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump in court deposition
Dominion alleged that Fox aired comments made by Trump-affiliated lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani that smeared the voting company.
A Fox News spokeswoman called Dominion’s argument in the filing “an extreme and unsupported view of defamation law that would prevent journalists from doing basic reporting.”
The representative also claimed that the company is “selecting sound bites, omitting key context, and mischaracterizing the record.”
In his statement, Murdoch also said that hosts who knew they were promoting lies should be “reprimanded, perhaps removed.”