Minnesota News Cold Open - SNL

♪♪♪ >>> WELL COMMONWEALTH -- WELCOME TO KDBD. THIS HAS BEEN HIGHLY EMOTIONAL. WATCHING THIS TRIAL BROUGHT BACK SO MANY BAD FEELINGS FROM LAST SUMMER. >> SOUNDS LIKE WE ALL AGREE THERE'S NO WAY DEREK CHAUVIN WALKS AWAY. >> YOU GUYS AREN'T BUYING INTO CHAUVIN'S DEFENSE, ARE YOU? >> OF COURSE NOT. >> IT WAS A CLEAR ACT OF DES RESPIRATION TO CREATE DOUBT WHERE THERE IS NONE. >> AND THERE'S NO WAY THE JURY IS GOING TO FALL FOR THAT. >> WHAT ARE YOU GUYS TRYING TO SAY? >> LET'S JUST SAY WE'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE. >> HISTORICALLY POLICE HAVE GOTTEN AWAY IN OTHER CASES LIKE THIS. >> YOU CAN LEAST ADMIT THIS COUNTRY HAS MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS RECENTLY. >> WHEN? >> DON'T GO THERE. >> GO THERE, CRAIG. >> LOOK, I WANT TO CHOOSE MY WORDS CAREFULLY HERE SO TO QUOTE THOMAS JEFFERSON. >> THAT'S A BAD START. >> LET'S GET ANOTHER OPINION ON THIS. >> LET'S ASK OUR WEATHERMAN, CALVIN. >> CALVIN. >> MAN, DON'T PUT ME INTO THIS MESS. I'M STILL IN HOT WATER FOR BEING IN THAT PAUL PIERCE VIDEO. >> LOOK, I DON'T WANT TO GET FIRED BUT OBVIOUSLY IT'S AN OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE. >> THAT BEING SAID HE'S A WHITE COP IN MINNESOTA. >> MAYBE YOU'RE RIGHT BUT FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CITY, I HOPE JUSTICE IS FINALLY SERVED. >> AGREED. >> WITH YOU THERE. >> ABSOLUTELY. >> THE LAST THING WE WANT IS ANOTHER RIOT. >> AND I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE NO MATTER HOW BAD THINGS ARE, DESTROYING PROPERTY IS NEVER THE ANSWER. >> I WOULDN'T SAY THAT. >> I'M SORRY, BUT IT'S NOT JUST PROPERTY. I JUST THINK PROTESTS SHOULD BE NONVIOLENT. >> THANK YOU FOR THAT LITTLE NOTE, CRAIG. >> WE'LL BE SURE TO TELL THE OTHERS. >> THAT'S NOT FAIR. >> OKAY, OKAY. THIS IS GETTING A LITTLE HEATED. MAYBE WE SHOULD MOVE ON. >> I THINK THIS IS A GOOD DIALOGUE. >> I AGREE. THIS IS HOW WE REACH AN UNDERSTANDING. AT LEAST WE AGREE ON THE OBVIOUS STUFF. >> THERE'S A GLARING DISCREPANCY IN THE WAY BLACK PEOPLE ARE TREATED BY POLICE. >> WE CAN'T DENY THAT. >> AND WE NEED CONCRETE SOLUTIONS TO FIX THIS PROBLEM. >> NO ARGUMENT THERE. >> AND WE START WITH REPARATIONS. >> WAIT JUST A MINUTE. >> I THOUGHT I HAD THEM. >> LET'S JUST GO TO THE WEATHER REPORT. CALVIN. >> SURE, MAN. WE'RE IN MINNESOTA. SO MAY COLD, JUNE COLD, JULY SOMEHOW HOT AS HELL. BACK TO Y'ALL. >> THANKS, CALVIN. SO WHAT ELSE IS IN THE NEWS, JOANNE? >> MORE SAD NEWS THIS WEEK. UNFORTUNATELY WE LOST ROYALTY YESTERDAY. >> I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THIS UP. THE RAPPER DMX DIED. >> SHE MEANS PRINCE PHILIP OF ENGLAND. >> THERE'S GOT TO BE ONE NEWS STORY WE CAN ALL AGREE ON. >> WHAT ABOUT MATT GATES? >> BUT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, 17 AIN'T THAT YOUNG. >> NO, MAN. THAT'S WHY YOU IN TROUBLE. THAT'S WHY YOU'RE IN TROUBLE, >> Live from New York, it's "Saturday Night"!

Channel: Saturday Night Live

Views: 2,844,162

Rating: 4.7349496 out of 5

Keywords: snl, saturday night live, season 46, snl 46, snl cold open, cold open, minnesota news cold open snl, minnesota news cold open Saturday night live, minnesota news cold open, Minnesota, minnesota news, ego nwodim, kenan Thompson, kate mckinnon, alex moffat, chris redd, race, racial injustice, police, protests, racial commentary, racial tension, dmx, royal family, prince phillip, England, Meghan Markle, queen Elizabeth, Matt Gaetz, s46, s46e17, episode 17

Id: 5H_ZdnvMJnE

Length: 5min 13sec (313 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 10 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/lazyf-inirishman]

"April, cold. May, cold. June, cold. July, somehow hot as hell." Lol

[u/guiltycitizen]

That cut to the weather guy, omg I died

Don’t bring me in this mess!

[u/confrnz]

I think we can all agree that the weather map was extremely accurate. 32 degrees in Souix Falls, 70 near St. Cloud, and 51 in Grand Marais...yep, sounds like April.

[u/DannoSpeaks]

Thank god they didn't use the annoying Fargo accents.

[u/Firesword52]

"After all the (slight pause) protests last year." May be the most accurate thing I've seen about how white people talk about the protests in minnesota. You can just hear the internal monologue of "don't say riots, don't say riots , don't say riots"

[u/TheObstruction]

Dammit, Calvin!

[u/_nordstar_]

That was great but wish they made more Minnesota jokes

[u/Spoon_Elemental]

I tend to agree with the property damage thing with the caveat of please don't fuck the small businesses. They can be ended by that shit.

[u/Manleather]

Yes, this is a hard topic, yes it should be talked about, and yes, SNL can absolutely do what they can to highlight the issues even if special snowflakes want to be obtuse about the issues and scree that "SNL should stick to jokes, not politics."

Obviously the root of the festering problem is still here. Obviously our marginalized and suppressed neighbors are still afraid and angry that a man can be murdered with so much video evidence and there's still 'question' that he died on his own and Chauvin just coincidentally was there. A black man was murdered in broad daylight by a white cop, and that's only half the outrage. The other half comes from folks who pretend to care about property being damaged in the riots instead of state-sanctioned murder. Focus- focus. A man was murdered and you clutch your pearls over people stealing funyuns from the Holiday. These are not equivalent crimes.

It's maddening to see fragile redditers decry the destruction of property while waving a hand at murder. You don't want that kind of rioting in your neighborhood? Black lives matter isn't about making white people slaves to be fair or whatever hyperbolic nonsense. Why is the white man given an assumption of innocence while the black man is assumed to be guilty to the point of death? Why can't the black man be assumed innocent until proven guilty? Why do black people live in a hellscape where existing as black is crime enough in America to be executed?

America's mythos includes being innocent until proven guilty. Why not make that a reality for all?