For Connecticut, Saturday Night Live Opened with a Children's Choir Singing "Silent Night"

For Connecticut, Saturday Night Live Opened with a Children’s Choir Singing “Silent Night”

There wasn't a single reference to the Connecticut shootings on this weekend's holiday edition of Saturday Night Live, but there didn't need to be. The show's cold open -- usually reserved for luke-warm political sketches -- said it all. Watch it above, and see a few of the other sketches...

By Joe ToneDecember 17, 2012

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There wasn’t a single reference to the Connecticut shootings on this weekend’s holiday edition of Saturday Night Live, but there didn’t need to be. The show’s cold open — usually reserved for luke-warm political sketches — said it all.

Watch it above, and see a few of the other sketches that worked below.

For Connecticut, Saturday Night Live Opened with a Children’s Choir Singing “Silent Night”

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For Connecticut, Saturday Night Live Opened with a Children’s Choir Singing “Silent Night”

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