A certain Train-penned earworm received a savage attack in one of the first sketches on this week’s Michael Keaton-hosted “SNL” episode. Set in Detroit, Michigan, in 1955, the sketch takes place at a suburban home where an interracial couple looks to win over their family’s support for their union.
The actual Train song was inspired by ideas of what Burning Man could be like — its own potentially racially problematic real-life context, but not at all what’s presented in the sketch.
Ego Nwodim and Andrew Dismukes play the couple in a sketch titled “Forbidden Romance,” which opens with the families arguing before Dismukes urges them all to sit down.
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