Last modified on Sun 31 Jan 2021 10.18 EST Saturday Night Live returns from the holiday hiatus to find the country in 2021 much-changed. Given all that’s happened, it makes sense the show would attempt to cover a range of topics in their cold open. On What Still Works, talk show host Kate McKinnon attempts to figure out which parts of American society are still functioning. The answer, depressingly but not surprisingly, is pretty much nothing. A discussion of government sees national disgrace Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Cecily Strong) espouse various nutso conspiracy theories, such as how “the California wildfires were caused by Jewish space lasers” (which is not made up).