Kate McKinnon's Robert Mueller Proves Kate McKinnon Can Make Anyone Funny
SNL has no shortage of white guys ready and willing to play other famous white guys. But let's be frank and admit that none of those perfectly able cast members come close to the unhinged brilliance of Kate McKinnon. So when they finally need someone to portray Robert Mueller, it makes total sense that they would bypass all those dudes and just but a prosthetic chin and jawline on McKinnon instead.
And McKinnon gets to have a complete blast as Mueller because, unlike so many other spotlight-obsessed figures in politics right now, Mueller is a relative blank space. So she makes him into a sort of cartoonish gambler who wants so badly to tell everyone how good his hand is but can't:
Oh man. Can I tell 'em? I wanna—I wanna tell 'em one thing. Okay, okay, I shouldn't be—no! Okay, so—yeah. Don Jr., he wrote in his Venmo description, "Russia"—no! I can't! I can't, it hurts. Oh, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, don't do this.
It's also a bold move because Trump reportedly hated that Melissa McCarthy played Sean Spicer (and the same goes for McKinnon's Jeff Sessions) specifically because it was a woman portraying one of his underlings. But seeing a woman play Mueller, someone who's menacing Trump and is seen by people inside the White House as either an omnipresent phantom or an axe always about to fall, probably makes his blood boil in a whole new way.
