Saturday Night Live repeatedly took embattled Rep. George Santos (R-NY) to task for his string of lies in its first episode of 2023, devoting its cold open and a Weekend Update segment to the truth-challenged lawmaker.
The cold open featured Bowen Yang’s Santos moonlighting as a sideline reporter for Fox Sports’ NFL post-game show. He was introduced as a new hire with an astonishing resume, including the accomplishment of having more championships than Tom Brady.
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“George Santos here, reporting live from the Super Bowl,” Santos said, while covering the Philadelphia Eagles-New York Giants game.
“Now George, first of all, congrats on an amazing career,” James Austin Johnson’s Jimmy Johnson then said, referencing Santos’ alleged athletic history. “I didn’t even know you played football, but I see here you were the first player to lead the league in passing and rushing.”
Santos replied by calling himself “sort of the real Bo Jackson,” before claiming to be “the first African-American quarterback to ever dunk a football.” Asked by Molly Kearney’s Terry Bradshaw where he played college football, Santos replied: “the university of college.”
Getting into the game recap, Santos took credit for the Eagles 38-7 victory over the Giants before claiming he was responsible for an impossible array of stats.
When Mikey Day’s Howie Long began questioning Santos’ credibility, the scandal-plagued politician responded with a pivot, saying, “I didn’t do drag in Brazil under the name Kitara Ravache. Whoever did, though, was very, very good at it and won many, many pageants.”
Hours prior to the sketch airing, the real Santos admitted to dressing in drag at a festival in Brazil when confronted by a reporter at New York’s La Guardia Airport. He had been dogged by reports this week that he performed in Brazilian pageants, claims he denied despite photos circulating of him dressed in drag. Santos is openly gay but supports laws opposed by many LGBT activists, such as Florida’s bill that banned schools from discussing sex and gender with children younger than third grade.
The cold open then turned back to the NFL on Fox hosts in studio as another sideline reporter was brought in to replace Yang’s Santos, though not for long. Santos quickly returned undeterred, this time in drag as Kitara Ravache. The controversial congressman then listed off another round of stats on his drag performances.
“Let’s take a break,” Long then said, trying to get Santos off camera, “But it’s official, the Eagles are moving on and George Santos represents America and can vote on wars.”
The sketch comedy show was not finished with Santos after the cold open, with Yang reappearing in his non-drag costume during Weekend Update. Anchor Colin Jost grilled the unapologetic Santos on his litany of false claims and asked if he was a pathological liar.
Santos repeatedly stopped the interview to take phone calls from Madonna, and told Jost that his grandparents escaped the Holocaust and knew Anne Frank.
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“My ancestors were the ones that told her, ‘You should be writing this down,'” the fabulist congressman claimed.
“That cannot be true, George,” Jost replied. “People need to know who you are.”
Santos pushed back, claiming SNL forced him to take a lie-detector test to prove he was honest before coming on the show. He then reached into his pocket to retreive the results, but pulled out a COVID-19 rapid test.
