Rice University gets name checked in 'Saturday Night Live' premiere sketch

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Houston's Rice University was name-checked last night in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch about a discussion about Trump's impeachment. The "Inside the Beltway" sketch featured a political roundtable discussion about the implications of the impeachment, with Aidy Bryant playing the host of the show, Woody Harrelson as a reporter from the Fort-Worth Star, Cecily Strong as a reporter from the Dallas Morning News, and Kenan Thompson as the chair of African-American Studies at Rice University.

In the sketch, the host of the show and the two reporters insist that this political moment "feels like a real turning point in the Trump presidency," and that the "American people understand the gravity" of the scandal while Thompson's cynical professor character keeps repeating, "ain't nothing gonna happen."

The sketch then travels back to other important moments in the Trump presidency, including the release of the Mueller Report and the multiple scandals ahead of the election, at which point the reporters insist that this is "a real turning point" while Kenan Thompson's jaded character repeats "ain't nothing gonna happen," and "he's gonna win."

Many of the laughs in the sketch came from the cast itself when a costumer jumped into the sketch a beat too early to help change Bryant's costume. The mistake caused Bryant to break character, and she and the cast laughed through their lines in the final minute of the sketch.

Therese Odell writes about television at FoolishWatcher.com.