This Saturday Night Live commercial parody is portraying John Belushi as an Olympian. He wins Olympic gold in the Decathlon and long distance running. Afterwards, he explains how he logged a lot of miles that day and ate a lot of donuts. He says that the donuts have the sugar he needs to get him through the morning. He is explaining all of this while holding a lit cigarette. The announcer states that they are the donuts of champions. There's a crowd cheering for him and the commercial parody comes to an end.
Now that was just a take by take on what happened in the commercial. As I was watching it, however, the satirical sense of it came into play. In my point of view, John Belushi isn't representing an athletic Olympian. He's sarcastically representing the average American male. Chocolate donuts obviously are not healthy for you, so they probably are not an athlete's food choice. However in the commercial it's what is giving him his energy for his competitions. The target could just as well be the average American who falls for fake advertising. I think that this parody is also trying to point out how smoking is a regular thing that is bad for you in America. Belushi is telling us about how the "donuts of champions" are helping him win while holding a lit cigarette. This is showing how not only is the guy eating fattening donuts but he is also harming his lungs and much more by smoking. I believe that this commercial parody is making fun of the average American who eats unhealthily and smokes while ironically believing that it doesn't actually affect you in a negative way.
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