imagine surviving a competition where everyone else is dead, only to sit down for a press conference where reporters behave as if you’ve just won a golf tournament.
that’s the brilliance of snl’s hunger games press conference.
katniss and peeta have survived a televised fight to the death, but the media wants sound bites, silly questions, and the usual post-event drama. one reporter is more concerned about food than the people who died. another treats the killings like an impressive sporting performance.
the joke is how quickly a horrifying event gets flattened into ordinary media coverage.
the director told these actors to look like they were having the best meal of their lives, and kenan thompson ended up with his entire face buried in pasta
“sir, can i take my face off of pasta now?”