Ben Carson mocked as SNL tackles Syrian refugee crisis in multiple sketches

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Jay Pharoah got big laughs as he skewed Carson on the show's cold open
In the sketch Carson says he will separate Christian from Muslim refugees by forcing everyone to eat bacon and sing a Christmas carol
When Taran Killam's Steve Doocey from Fox News & Friends points out how calm Carson seems, he replies that he's like a koala bear
'On the outside I may seem nice,' he replies 'but on the inside I've never held elected office'
The show also discussed the hot-button issue in a hilarious sketch that showed a family arguing about the topic at Thanksgiving dinner
They could only be calmed down when Adele's Hello began to play
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By Anneta Konstantinides For Dailymail.com

Published: 02:11 EST, 22 November 2015 | Updated: 08:16 EST, 23 November 2015

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Adele may have been what everyone was waiting for, but it was the Syria refugee crisis that dominated Saturday Night Live's most recent episode.

The question of whether more restrictions should be place on Syrian refugees entering the country was mentioned in the show's cold open featuring Jay Pharoah's Ben Carson on Fox & Friends.

Pharoah got huge laughs from the audience as he skewed Carson's soft voice and deadpan delivery.

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SNL tackled the Syrian refugee crisis on Saturday's episode, using the cold open to mock Ben Carson's soft voice and deadpan delivery in a Fox News & Friends sketch

Pharoah began by apologizing to the audience if he 'already seem agitated', remaining a picture of calm before advising viewers to 'turn their volume down because I might get crazy'

'Hello everyone, my apologies if I already seem agitated but I'm just revved up about this,' He begins, never raising his voice.

'I wanna ask that viewers at home turn their volume down because I might get crazy,' he continues, his voice still soft as he gives the camera a smile.

Taran Killam's Steve Doocey of the Fox News morning show then asks Carson if he has a plan to separate Muslim for Christian refugees.

'Weeding out the Islamists would be simple,' he replies. 'First we would say you can't come into this country until I see you eat bacon while singing a Christmas carol.'

'Or all refugees will be given mad libs with the phrase "Death to ___. " Anyone who writes America, won't be allowed inside America,' Pharoah continues, mocking Carson's hand gestures.

‘Now President Obama has decided to leave from behind on this,' Vanessa Bayer's Elizabeth Hasselbeck asks. 'Isn’t that dangerous?'

'Absolutely,' Pharoah replies. 'Extremists are entering this country every day.'

He then shuts his eyes, keeping them closed as he continues: 'I mean open your eyes president Obama. It's enough to make me flip, my, top.'

'I gotta say Dr. Carson,' Killam replies. 'You seem pretty calm, sir.'

When Taran Killam's Steve Doocey asks Carson if he has a plan to separate Muslim from Christian refugees, the presidential nominee candidate replies that he would force them to eat bacon and sing a Christmas carol

The sketch also featured Kate McKinnon's Debbie Wasserman, who said she wasn't skeptical of refugees because she was surrounded by them, including old people escaping from the cold, in Florida

'Oh I'm like a koala bear,' he replies. 'On the outside I may seem nice, but on the inside I've never held elected office.'

Earlier in the sketch Bayer claimed a 'crazed mob of Syrian refugees' were flooding America's borders, before playing a tape of people fighting over television sets at Walmart on Black Friday.

The sketch also featured Kate McKinnon's Debbie Wasserman, who was asked by Bayer why she wasn't more skeptical of the refugees.

McKinnon stated she was surrounded by refugees in her state of Florida.

'We have Cubans escaping communism, Guatemalans escaping drug cartels, and old people escaping winter.'

The cold open was hardly the first sketch where the Syria refugee crisis wasn't a major theme or at least mentioned.

In what was probably the most popular sketch of the night, a family at the table for Thanksgiving begins arguing over hot-button political issues.

‘You know I am thankful that our governor is not going to let those refugees in here,’ says one family member as her relative looks on in disbelief.

Earlier in the sketch Vanessa Bayer's Elizabeth Hasselbeck claims a 'crazed mob of Syrian refugees' were flooding America, before playing this tape of people fighting over television sets at Walmart on Black Friday

‘Thanksgiving with family can be hard,’ a title card reads. ‘Everyone has different opinion and beliefs. But there’s one thing that unites us all.’

As the family begins arguing more intensely, a little girl at the table walks to the stereo and begins playing Adele's hit smash Hello.

The family begins singing, holding hands as they become overwhelmed with the emotional song.

In another sketch that takes place on the game show 'Should You Chime In?' Keenan Thompson's game show host tells Connie, who says she has traveled and doesn't watch the news but knows how to stop ISIS, that he is going to ask her about the Syrian refugee crisis.

'Do you know anything about it?' he asks. 'I do not,' Aidy Bryant's character responds.

'Have you read anything about it?' he continues.

In what was probably the most popular sketch of the night, a family at the table for Thanksgiving begins arguing over hot-button political issues - including the refugee crisis

The only thing that calms them down is when this little girl begins playing Adele's Hello from the stereo

'I have not and I can barely read,' she replies.

Connie then admits she only learned Syria was a country just that morning.

'With that in mind,' Keenan says, 'Here is your question about this very complicated crisis. Should you, Connie, chime in on this?'

'Yes I absolutely should,' Connie responds with a passion, 'Now what they need to do - '

'No!' Keenan interrupts. 'You are not equipped in here,' he says to Connie, as he points to his head.

And the issue unsurprisingly was brought up during the Weekend Update segment, where Colin Jost referred to Jeb Bush's proclamation he wanted to send American troops to Syria and Iraq.

'Cause you never want to be the one guy at Thanksgiving,' he says, 'who hasn't sent troops to the Middle East.'

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday defied President Obama by passing a bill to restrict the influx of refugees into the US who are fleeing fighting in Iraq and Syria.

The chamber voted 289-137 for legislation that would impose new standards on the refugees, as fears grow of a mainland attack by an ISIS fighter posing as a refugee

It marks Congress's first response to last week's bombings and shootings by ISIS militants in Paris, killing 129 people.

It also marks a significant showdown with the White House, which had threatened on Wednesday to veto the bill because it 'would introduce unnecessary and impractical requirements that would unacceptably hamper our efforts to assist some of the most vulnerable people in the world.'