NBCSaturday Night Live opened this week’s show with—what else?—the Chinese spy balloon that the Biden administration successfully shot down earlier in the day. But unlike the rest of the obsessive media coverage the story has received over the past few days, the show scored a big interview with the balloon itself.“Well, you got me. Congrats, you shot a balloon,” Bowen Yang told Chloe Fineman’s Katy Tur, repurposing his iconic portrayal of the iceberg that took down the Titanic and applying it to the massive surveillance device. “I entertain you people for four days, and then get shot by Biden. I can’t believe that I’m Joe’s Osama!” he declared.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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