The first “Saturday Night Live” since Donald Trump’s election victory started with essentially the most somber of tones as a bunch of plainly dressed solid members, primarily ladies and minorities, described their new actuality.
“To many people, including many people watching right now, the results were shocking and even horrifying,” Ego Nwodim soberly stated.
“Donald Trump, who forcibly tried to overturn the results of the last election, was returned to office,” Heidi Gardner stated.
“And now,” Bowen Yang added, “thanks to the Supreme Court, there are no guardrails.”
Then got here the swerve from the liberal-leaning present.
“That is why we at ‘SNL’ wish to say to Donald Trump, now we have been with you all alongside,” Keenan Thompson stated.
Yang chimed in, “We have never wavered in our support for you, even when others doubted you.”
“Every single person on this stage believed in you,” Sarah Sherman stated.
Marcello Hernández added, “Every single person on this stage voted for you.”
The solid members went on to effusively declare their reverence for, and obedience to, the previous and future president, introducing a brand new character, “Hot, Jacked Trump.”
Cast member James Austin Johnson, who performs a dead-on Trump and was just about assured a long-term job by the election, got here out as an Adonis-bodied president-elect.
“From now on we’re going to do a very flattering portrayal of Trump, because frankly he’s my hero,” Johnson said in his Trump voice but speaking as himself. “He’s going to make an incredible president and eventually king.”
The episode, hosted by standup comedian and actor Bill Burr, was the primary all season that didn’t start with former solid member Maya Rudolph, who performed Vice President Kamala Harris in a giddy five-week run culminating with an look final week of Harris herself that started the present’s fiftieth season and introduced a rankings spike.
Burr, internet hosting after standup Dave Chappelle hosted the final two post-presidential election episodes, did his personal feint in his monologue, saying, “I don’t watch politics” and performing some customary standup together with an airplane bit earlier than doubling again to the elephant within the studio, the election.
“Alright, let’s get to what you all want to talk about. Alright ladies, you’re 0-and-2 against this guy,” he said. “But you learn more from your losses than your wins. So let’s get into the game tape. Ladies, enough with the pantsuit. Okay, it’s not working. Stop trying to have respect for yourself.”
He urged candidates that have been a least a little bit extra scantily clad, saying, “I know a lot of ugly women — feminists, I mean — don’t want to hear this message.”
Burr was “so psyched that this stupid election is finally over. Everybody knew who they were going to vote for four years ago. Then they just dragged us through a year and a half of this stuff,” he stated.
After Trump’s first election victory in 2016, the present opening was critical and stayed that approach with Kate McKinnon, who performed Hillary Clinton on the present, showing because the shedding candidate sitting on the piano and singing a somber model Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” altering just one verse from the best-known variations of the track.
“And even though it all went wrong, I’ll stand before the lord of song with nothing on my tongue but ‘Hallelujah,’” McKinnon sang in what grew to become a nationwide second of catharsis for these on the shedding facet.
After ending, McKinnon stated in a shaky voice, “I’m not giving up and neither should you” before delivering the obligatory “live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”
Rudolph made no look as Harris on this Saturday evening, however former solid member Dana Carvey, who has performed President Joe Biden all season, confirmed up as a leaping Elon Musk after the solid stated they cherished him, too.
After the opening, the sketches downshifted into customary, non-election “SNL” fare, besides in fact for the pretend news “Weekend Update.”
“On Tuesday, we realized that Democrats don’t really know find out how to rig an election,” fake co-anchor Colin Jost stated.
He later added, “If I know Democrats, they’re going to take a long look in the mirror, learn from their mistakes and run Biden again in 2028.”
Co-anchor Michael Che, who’s Black, drank all through the section, saying he couldn’t consider folks satisfied him Harris might win over rural Pennsylvanians.
“Clearly I’ve been spending too much time with you white liberals and your goofy optimism,” Che stated.
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