'Saturday Night Live' slammed for sketch mocking coronavirus vaccine hesitancy in the Black community

“Saturday Night Live” is catching backlash for a recent sketch about vaccine hesitancy within the Black community. 

The sketch featured Kaluuya playing a doctor and the host of a game show titled "Will You Take It?" In it, his family members, played by cast members Kenan Thompson, Chris Redd, Ego Nwodim and Punkie Johnson, were offered large sums of money simply to agree to take the COVID-19 vaccine.  In the sketch, Kaluuya’s character begins by offering his four family members $500 to simply take the vaccine. As the sketch goes on, the total eventually reaches $20,000 but it is never enough to dampen his family member’s hesitancy to take the vaccine despite close to 100 million people in the U.S. having been administered the dose.