Scarlett Johansson poked fun at Sen. Katie Britt during this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open, parodying the Republican’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.
In a Thursday-night speech from her kitchen, the real-life Britt lambasted Biden over a border crisis she said he “invited” and a country she said was more dangerous than it was four years ago.
In a dark turn, Britt appeared to blame Biden for the death of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student who the president, in an unscripted moment, had said was murdered by “an illegal.” She also told a story about a victim of human trafficking, which she implied happened during Biden’s tenure — a story she received criticism for.
Johansson parodied the senator’s response to Biden’s address, saying, as Britt, that she’s auditioning for the part of “scary mom.”
“And I’ll be performing an original monologue called ‘This Country is Hell,’” Johansson said. The actor added that she’s concerned about “the future of our children.”
“And this is why I’ve invited you into this strange, empty kitchen. Because Republicans wanted me to appeal to women voters, and women love kitchen,” Johansson said to laughter from the crowd.
Johansson, as Britt, called Biden’s address “the performance of a permanent politician,” adding with a dramatic flourish that she is “not performing.”
Alluding to Britt’s story about a human-trafficking victim, Johansson said she’s “going to do a pivot out of nowhere into a shockingly violent story about sex trafficking.”
“And rest assured, every detail about it is real, except the year, where it took place, and who was president when it happened,” Johansson said.
Shortly after Britt’s address Thursday, a viral social media post by journalist Jonathan Katz looked more closely at the story and noted that the trafficking did not happen during Biden’s presidency, or even in the United States; it…
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