Fan-favorite ‘Saturday Night Live’ character MacGruber was revived by Will Forte as an anti-vaxxer in a Jan. 23 sketch with Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe.
TV & Movies The fan-favorite SNL character is headed down a misinformed path. MacGruber, the incompetent special operations agent Saturday Night Live fans have loved to hate since Will Forte first portrayed him in 2007, is back. The SNL alum revived the fan-favorite sketch multiple times throughout his first-time hosting gig on Jan.22 and brought fellow SNL alum Kristen Wiig and actor Ryan Phillippe along as the titular MacGyver parody character’s sidekicks, Vicki St. Elmo and Dixon Piper, respectively. Reviving the fan-favorite sketch’s classic storyline, Forte’s MacGruber was tasked with deactivating a ticking bomb but became too distracted to do so — this time because he was too busy spewing COVID-19 misinformation. Stressed out and masked up, Vicki and Dixon appear alongside MacGruber in the sketch as he works to stop the bomb before its 60-second timer ran out. “I know this whole COVID situation has really changed the game, so we got to be smart about this, okay?” said the titular character.
