Saturday Evening Reside‘s chilly open this week took shots on the govt shutdown with the aid of imagining the situations of blockbuster film Gravity being exacerbated as a result of a defunded NASA program.

Kate McKinnon and Taran Killam floated about in “space” — referencing the Gravity roles of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney — calling for assist from an empty NASA keep watch over room, shuttered with the aid of the government shutdown.

The only people who can hear their pleas for assist are two janitors, who as a substitute of aiding the astronauts, proceed to mock Congress, the federal government shutdown, and ask a sequence of inane questions.

Watch beneath, by way of NBC:

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