SNL Tackles Dueling Presidential Town Halls in Cold Open
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On last night's episode of SNL, the show kept up the election cycle spoofs that we've come to expect from this season's cold opens. This time they skewered Thursday night's dueling town halls with Alec Baldwin, Jim Carrey, and Maya Rudolph all reprising their roles as the president and the Democratic nominees respectively.
Kate McKinnon, playing NBC's Savannah Guthrie, opened the segment by saying, "Good evening America. I am surprise badass Savannah Guthrie, and if you are angry at NBC for doing this town hall, just let me get a few questions in, and I think you will thank me.” The joke was a reference to the outcry NBC faced over scheduling a Trump town hall at the same time as Biden's town hall on ABC.
Jim Carrey turned in a funny impersonation of Joe Biden that centered on lighthearted jokes about meandering grandpas—"And that brings us to 1939, a year that I went to the World's Fair and met the real Micky Mouse— and comparisons of the presidential candidate to famously saccharine figures like Bob Ross and Mr. Rogers.
Baldwin's take on Trump was less grandpa and more "crazy uncle." When challenged by McKinnon's Guthrie on why he won't condemn QAnon, Baldwin's Trump responded incoherently: "You mean the group that thinks Democrats are a cabal of Satan worshiping pedophiles, that I am their Messiah? I don’t know anything about them."
“Yes you do Mr. President,” McKinnon said.
“Well, I do know that they are against pedophilia and I agree with that. If anyone is against pedophiles, it is me, the man who was close personal friends with one of the most famous pedophiles on earth. Rest in power, Jeffrey.”
Jeffrey Epstein that is.
The sketch's biggest laughs came from a surprise and mysterious cameo by castmember Ego Nwodim acting as the controversial conservative commentator Candace Owens. After Trump gets a question from a "pro-life millennial" about Amy Coney Barrett, a masked Nwodim appeared sitting in a steel chair behind Trump, nodding menacingly.
Moments later Maya Rudoplh, acting as Kamala Harris, interrupted the scene to call out Owens. “What the hell is happening?” asked Rudolph's Harris. “Either that’s Candace Owens in a wig or that girl answered the wrong Craigslist add,” she said.
The sketch ended with each candidate's closing remarks. In his speech, Carrey's Biden promised to only have one scandal: “I will mistake Angela Merkel from my wife from behind and tell her she’s got a rocking caboose. There’s no malice in that.” Meanwhile Baldwin’s Trump asked Americans if they are better off now than they were four years ago, and when the answer was a resounding “no," he replied hastily “All right, then just try and take me alive.”
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