Saturday Night Live opened its 51st season with a skit skewering Donald Trump’s crackdown on late-night TV, as the president (James Austin Johnson) warned that “daddy’s watching.”

The skit also featured Mikey Day as FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who last month came to national prominence after he warned of agency action over comments that Jimmy Kimmel made on his ABC show. Hours later, ABC pulled it from the schedule, only to return it several days later after a backlash that the network had capitulated to Trump administration pressure.

The SNL skit was hardly surprising, given that Carr, in his first weeks in office, is investigating a complaint over the show’s decision last year to feature Kamala Harris in a cameo just a few days before the election.

The premise of the SNL cold open

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