The venerable US comedy show Saturday Night Live has always been hit-and-miss, and its satires of the 2020 election campaign have been no different. It does have its occasional perceptive moments, though, including the discussion of fracking in its spoof of the vice-presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. “Joe Biden fracks in his free time,” says Maya Rudolph, playing Harris, in a reference to Biden’s rejection of a ban on hydraulic fracturing. “While I personally wanted to ban fracking, now that I know Pennsylvania loves it, I just want to say this [dropping into exaggerated Philadelphia accent]… ... (full story)