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Saturday Night Live sketch condemns Miami Beach spring breakers for starting ‘fourth wave’ of Covid

‘We’re so close to the end, let’s ruin it!’ joked Maya Rudolph

Ellie Harrison
Monday 29 March 2021 16:11 BST
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Saturday Night Live sketch condemns Miami Beach spring breakers

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A new Saturday Night Live sketch has criticised college students in the US who have flocked to Miami Beach for spring break despite the ongoing pandemic.

The latest episode’s host, Bridesmaids star Maya Rudolph, played the host of a fictional spring break game show in Florida called “Snatched, Vaxed or Waxed”. She kicked things off by saying: “We’re so close to the end, let’s ruin it! When I say ‘fourth’, you say ‘wave’!”

Chris Redd, Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney starred as the male contestants, while Chloe Fineman, Ego Nwodim and Heidi Gardner appeared as “Covid cuties”. The object of the game was for the men to determine whether the women had “hard bodies” aka were “snatched”, had received the vaccine and therefore had “antibody-ody-odies”, or were smoothly waxed “like a seal”.

The skit also poked fun at Spirit Airlines, which has made headlines several times in recent months. In November, a woman died from Covid-19 while on a flight. Just last week a Spirit Airlines plane was forced to divert after a passenger allegedly tried to open the cabin door mid-flight.

SNL’s cast joked that the company was promising $10 flights to Miami, but for anyone worried about the safety of travel, “don’t worry, we keep the windows open”.

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Later in the episode, the show skewered the baby boomer generation who are getting the vaccine.

In a music video called “Boomers Got the Vax”, it was pointed out that, despite that age group crashing the economy multiple times, they still managed to leave college without debt, get jobs, have their retirement funded and now they are getting the vaccine.

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