"Saturday Night Live"went to the emergency room this week, dragging a satirized, shirtlessRobert F. Kennedy Jr.with them.
Harry Styles'sMarch 14 hosting duties saw the singer as a Best Buy staffer, a European cruise host and a White Castle drive-thru employee. But one of the night's buzziest sketches was "MAHAspital," a satire on Kennedy's"Make America Healthy Again"agenda in the style of hospital drama"The Pitt."Styles played aDr. Robby-esquecharacter.
In the fake promo "for people who love 'The Pitt' but can't stand its phony liberal science," cast members eyed raw milk IV drips and shelved ivermectin, suggesting treatments of "methylene blue and a full-moon ceremony." Rather than Tylenol or defibrillators, the emergency room staff pitched whey powder, red light therapy masks and "a cold plunge in blue jeans."
"If your favorite character from 'The Pitt' was the guy who punched the nurse in the face, you'll love MAHAspital," a narrator advertises.
'SNL' trollsRFK Jr., MAHA in 'The Pitt' sketch
"MAHAspital" is a clear dig at the Health and Human Services secretary, whoserecent federal actionsand stances includerevised childhood vaccine guidance,skepticism of psychiatric drugsand aflipped food pyramid.
As nurses triage an 80-year-old possible stroke victim, Styles's character throws in an alternate treatment: "What she needs is a steak. She needs protein, people!"
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In another scene, a patient's "testosterone is crashing," leaving Ben Marshall's character to prescribe "bull semen." He later pulls the plug on a comatose patient after finding out they're vegan: "Well, nothing we can do."
The "MAHAspital" sketch, "coming soon to The Daily Wire," culminates in the de facto MAHA leader himself entering the hospital. James Austin Johnson's Kennedy is shirtless and veiny, wheeling in a dead bear in nothing but jeans. It's a reference to the true story of Kennedyhitting and killing a bear cub, then loading it into his car with the intention to skin it and save the meat. But because he was running late for a dinner in the city, he instead staged the bear in Central Park to look like a biker had struck it.
"Prep him!" the satirized "SNL" Kennedy tells staff in "MAHAspital." But not for surgery – for jerky. "He's been dead for days, but the meat's still good."
It's not the first time "SNL" has mocked Kennedy. In Nov. 2024, Alec Baldwin swapped his storied impersonation of PresidentDonald Trumpfor Kennedy in asketch about cabinet picks.
"Americans need someone to teach them how to be healthy, someone like me: a 70-year-old man with movie-star looks and a worm in his brain," Baldwin's Kennedy said. Later, he said, "I care deeply about a woman's right to choose: to choose to give her child polio."
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