The United States has thoroughly mocked the whole situation between Australia and Novak Djokovic as the cast of Saturday Night Live put their two cents into the dramatic saga.
Comedian Pete Davidson has now made headlines that actually aren’t related to the beef between him and Kanye West, or his relationship with Kim Kardashian.
Davidson portrayed the tennis star during a segment of Saturday Night Live which featured a fictional news cross, landing a lot of blows to the deported Djokovic.
“Call me by my nickname, the Joker,” Davidson said. “Although right now I’m the least popular Joker, except for Jared Leto.”
When asked to explain what happened, Djoko-Davidson said: “I went to Australia and my visa was denied, but then I appealed to the judge and this was his ruling…” Then a fake Hawkeye projection played showing the ball narrowly missing the line and being declared “out”.
Davidson continued on his spiel, roasting Djokovic’s attendance at events while being COVID-positive just last month.
“People love to tear you off your pedestal just because you’re really rich or you’re the best at tennis or you go to a charity event with 200 kids even though you’re dripping with COVID,” he said.
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“But in my heart I know that one day people will look back on this moment in history and think, ‘who cares’!”
Novak Djokovic was deported after the Federal Court upheld immigration minister Alex Hawke’s decision to cancel the tennis star’s visa.
The world No. 1 thought he had a valid medical exemption due to the fact that he had contracted COVID-19 in the last six months, but that was not the case and he was sent back to Serbia after his final attempt at a legal challenge fell through.
Djokovic made a statement that he was “extremely disappointed with the ruling”, but his coach Marian Vajda released a more passionate response on Friday.
“I still don’t understand why they did it to him,” Vajda told Sport Klub. “It was an unhealthy and unjust decision, based on the assumption that Djokovic could do or influence something that had not yet happened.”
Saturday Night Live is not the first American show to make fun of the drama between Novak Djokovic and Australia, and it’s pretty doubtful that they’ll be the last.
