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SNL mocks Super Bowl blackout in cold open [VIDEO]

Saturday Night Live tackled the 34-minute power outage during the Super Bowl for its cold open in this weekend's show.

Power goes out for the San Francisco 49ers-Baltimore Ravens game during the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on February 3, 2013 in New Orleans. UPI/Kevin Dietsch

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Published: Feb. 11, 2013 at 10:11 AM

By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com

Saturday Night Live, which never misses an opportunity to skewer the ridiculous, tackled the Super Bowl blackout in this weekend's cold opening.

Kenan Thompson, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis and Tim Robinson play the CBS announcers desperately trying to vamp through the 34 minute delay, with anagrams, idle gossip and plugs for Two Broke Girls.

Next Super Bowl, the network might want to hire these guys, just in case.

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