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SNL Opens with Pirated Mayweather-Pacquiao Spoof

Saturday Night Live, figuring that no one was watching anyway, spoofed themselves with a fake pirated Mayweather-Pacquiao feed.

Saturday Night Live was up against Mayweather-Pacquiao last night after a day of hockey, horse racing, and golf on the Peacock all day. The cold open featured a brief message acknowledging that most people were probably watching the fight instead of SNL, so they figured they'd just show a pirated feed instead of any sketches. This message then transitioned into a boxing sketch featuring Aidy Bryant playing Manny Pacquiao as a spanish-speaking dude and Jay Pharoah playing Mayweather.

Good news, though, everyone in the sketch except Manny eventually left to watch the real fight in Wiz Khalifa's dressing room so Pac Man won after all.

[NBC]