It's not surprising that the cast and writers of Saturday Night Live would let their first show since Super Bowl XLVII go by without poking fun at the event's 33 minute blackout.

The show focused on the performance of CBS' crew during the outage, making fun of studio hosts James Brown, Dan Marino, Bill Cowher and Shannon Sharpe, as well as sideline reporter Steve Tasker.

DON'T BLAME BEYONCE: Super Bowl blackout traced to faulty device

The impressions of the CBS personalities weren't all that exact - with the exception of Taran Killam's clueless Tasker and Jay Pharaoh nailing Sharpe's cadence - but the sketch's exaggeration of the crew's collective deer in the headlights performance was incredibly spot on.

Sports on Earth writer Will Leitch detailed the CBS' crew's unpreparedness for such an unexpected event in a piece last Monday, calling it "the worst display of broadcasting I've seen in my entire life."

In CBS's defense, the network gave sister network Showtime's 60 Minutes Sports a full background to the production of the Super Bowl in a segment that aired Wednesday. You'll need to get Showtime to view the entire thing, but it's a pretty detailed look at everything that goes into such an event and how the NFL, CBS and Superdome officials reacted once the lights went out.

PHOTOS: Best shots of the Super Bowl power outage

Show Thumbnails
Show Captions