Sure, Jennifer Lawrence has gotten plenty of attention for her recent role as Tiffany in Silver Linings Playbook, but SNL didn’t forget the role that truly launched her Hollywood career: Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. This sketch, however, doesn’t parody the Games themselves, but instead portrays the press conference that would have followed the event. While a clever premise, the jokes were fairly tame (and it felt as if many were basically mild jabs at Josh Hutcherson’s height.)
Perhaps the most topical joke came when a reporter asked Katniss if she’d been using performance-enhancing drugs. When she said, “Absolutely not,” he turned to Peeta (Josh Hutcherson’s character, here played be Taran Killam) and asked, “And have you been using performance-reducing drugs?”