Sen. Katie Britt Shares Mike Johnson’s Ironic Pep Talk Before Her Biden SOTU Speech

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) on Wednesday revealed the recommendation that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) gave to her earlier than her extensively derided Republican rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union handle.

Britt grew to become one of many memes of the night time together with her overly dramatic supply of her speech from a kitchen desk. It impressed a mocking portrayal by Scarlett Johansson on “Saturday Night Live.” Britt additionally confronted criticism for her deceptive use of a intercourse trafficking story in her feedback.

Britt, showing on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) “Verdict” podcast, recalled Johnson telling her in regards to the speech: “Don’t worry about, you know, people are going to tell you horror stories about all of these things that happen and people’s career being blown up over it.”

“It’ll be fine. It’ll be fine,” Britt added Johnson informed her.

Johnson was “so kind and really welcoming,” she claimed. “I think it was a great conversation. But the irony that he’s like, ‘Don’t you worry.’”

The “SNL” skit was “the coolest thing” as a result of Johansson “is hot,” mentioned Cruz.

“I am genuinely jealous because, look, SNL has come after me a bunch of times, they don’t ever have Tom Cruise play me,” he continued. “How come you get a gorgeous movie star? That is a real compliment that you ought to be pretty psyched with.”

Britt mentioned she was “pretty pumped” about Johansson’s interpretation of her.

“You wonder who in the world is gonna play you, right?” she mentioned. “And I’ll be honest with you, a bingo card of 2024 for Katie Britt, I did not have this on it, right? And so certainly didn’t have Scarlett Johansson playing me.”

“We were talking to the kids about all of it and they were like, ‘Oh my gosh, mom,’ and ‘da da da,’ and I said, ‘Look, it could be worse.’ I mean Scarlett Johansson. Here you have Black Widow, they bring in someone from Avengers to play me in the cold open. I’m here for it. I’m here for it.”

“At least you were played by a woman,” mentioned Cruz, who Aidy Bryant jumped into character as within the aftermath of his Cancun controversy. Bryant was “really funny” and the skit was “hysterical,” he added.