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A Very Cuban Christmas
The setup
The funny people
Meet the cast. 11
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Hi, I'm Hurley from Lost. And yeah, I am Cuban, dude.
Swing your dreidel round and round
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Cecily Strong and Taran Killam play Gloria Estefan and Pitbull as co-hosts of a joint NBC-Cubavision Christmas special marking the thaw in relations between the two countries. Their guests include Hurley from Lost, Scarface's Tony Montana and his girlfriend, and a gleeful Elian Gonzalez, whose boat-crossing fame is promptly challenged by an outraged Diana Nyad. After a pitch for tiny cups of coffee, Cuba Gooding Jr. introduces Raul Castro, who fumbles holiday greetings alongside a Santa-suited Fidel, and Barack Obama beams in from Hawaii to oversell the benefits of the new deal. The special ends with Pitbull performing a Hanukkah song for the Christmas broadcast.
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