“Saturday Night Live” is famous for its bread and butter sketch, the politically-tinged cold open, in which the NBC variety show stalwart reliably pokes fun at the major current doings of (usually) whoever sits behind the Resolute Desk. So it was a surprise when they opted to take something of a U-turn this week.
Unlike the satirical route, like they went with on President-elect Donald Trump winning the election, as my colleague Bob Hogue wrote about, for this week’s elephant in the room–President Joe Biden’s pardoning son Hunter– the writers reached back to resurrect one of the long-running program’s funniest characters–“Church Chat” host, the Church Lady. If you aren’t familiar with it (not every reader is a Gen Xer or older, after all), the school marm-esque, holier-than-thou, Christian talk show host character sits down with several guests from…
