“Saturday Night Live” Mocks Super Bowl in Opening Segment

Leave it to Saturday Night Live, a cultural icon around the United States, to mock pretty much everything relating to Super Bowl XLIX.

Everything from the personalities of the Seattle Seahawks top stars to Deflate-gate, was up for grabs in this epic opening monologue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFy9RPxt2gw

Richard Sherman—played by Jay Pharoah—even went far enough to compare Pete Carroll to Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. 

Yeah, you read that right.

Compared to some other comedic turns relating to the Super Bowl (looking at you, Keenan & Peele), this was quite awesome.

They even brought in Taran Killam (a Rob Lowe look-a-like) to play a gum-chomping, Dobie Gillis  version of Carroll.

It was quite awesome.

By Vincent Frank

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