{"id":156364,"date":"2026-08-05T09:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/156364\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:49:26","slug":"snl-star-cracks-jokes-about-baffling-pizza-pizza-menu-item-on-trip-to-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/156364\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL star cracks jokes about baffling Pizza Pizza menu item on trip to Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Night Live\u00a0cast member, actor and comedian James Austin Johnson had some\u00a0choice words to share about a new Pizza Pizza menu item on a recent trip to Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Though he may be best known for his turkey-necked depiction of Donald Trump on SNL, Johnson&#8217;s distinct brand of absurd comedy has been\u00a0directed at national treasure Pizza Pizza while he spends time in the city.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, the comedian took aim at the pizza chain&#8217;s new cheeseburger poutine, which&#8230; yeah, I get it.<\/p>\n<p>In the short-but-sweet video, Johnson assumes the character of cheeseburger poutine, declaring, &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m cheeseburger poutine, and when I was 11, my home was invaded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does it mean anything? Not necessarily. But is Johnson&#8217;s video just as absurd as the concept of cheeseburger poutine itself? Absolutely, and that gets a &#8216;like&#8217; not only from me, but scores of Johnson&#8217;s other Toronto-based fans.<\/p>\n<p>The dish, priced at $8.50, consists of all the usual poutine fixings with the addition of ground beef and pickles.\u00a0Home invasion not included.<\/p>\n<p>If Pizza Pizza&#8217;s cheeseburger poutine sounds like something you&#8217;d like to sink your teeth into, I won&#8217;t yuck your yum. You can currently pick it\u00a0up, along with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dap7q1OCijb\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">selection of other loaded poutines<\/a>, at your local Pizza Pizza location.<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, would like to see James Austin Johnson give it a try and record his unedited review of the whole, absurd experience.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live\u00a0cast member, actor and comedian James Austin Johnson had some\u00a0choice words to share about a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[50443,344,50442,38431,48],"class_list":["post-156364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-baffled","tag-pizza","tag-snl","tag-star","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}