Ted Cruz’s beef with Big Bird set up a raucous ‘SNL’ cold open on ‘Ted Cruz Street’

Noted professional moron Ted Cruz, the “esteemed” U.S. Senator from Texas, spent time in his taxpaer-funded job in recent days striking up a beef with Big Bird.

The towering yellow Sesame Street icon committed what Cruz sees as the cardinal sin of getting a COVID vaccine publicly, and in a way the Senator fears will brainwash kids. So of course, as a new episode of Saturday Night Live arrived over the weekend, comedy vet Aidy Bryant slipped into her blistering Cruz impersonation for a brutal takedown of the Senator and the harmful GOP views he espouses.

Ted Cruz Street, as the thankfully non-existent show is called, is a product of Newsmax Kids, which also thankfully does not exist. It’s the kind of show where someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene (Cecily Strong) might show up clutching an assault rifle that she’s more than happy to hand over to a group of kids standing nearby. It’s also the kind of show that could welcome an inexplicably popular TV actor-turned-meathead podcaster (Pete Davidson) to hype the efficacy of horse medicine as a COVID deterrent.

If you think we’re living in the darkest timeline, just watch this sketch for a sense of how much darker, and stupider, things could get.