'With Brad Pitt playing Dr. Anthony Fauci, 'Saturday Night Live' effectively became a translator for Donald Trump's jaw-dropping pandemic comments,' Dean Obeidallah writes for CNNOpinion.
Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program"The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
It must have been a nightmare for President Donald Trump. In early April, Dr. Anthony Fauci was jokingly asked on CNN's"New Day" who he would want to play him on"Saturday Night Live." A laughing Fauci responded,"Brad Pitt, of course." On Saturday the infectious disease specialist had his wish come true as"SNL" opened its show with the actor -- twice named by People magazine as"sexiest man alive" -- playing the 79-year-old doctor.
Dean ObeidallahPitt-as-Fauci kicked off the show -- the second filmed"at home" rather than in NBC's famed Studio 8H to observe social distancing guidelines -- sitting behind a desk in a suit and tie. "Fauci," who in real life has become something of a national icon for his work on the Covid-19 pandemic -- first joked about the support he had received from"older women in America who have sent me supportive, inspiring, and sometimes graphic emails.
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