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‘SNL’ Is Eagerly Awaiting Trump’s Return to the White House — Really!
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‘SNL’ Is Eagerly Awaiting Trump’s Return to the White House — Really!

this week Saturday Night Live It was proof that we were not yet ready to process the election. It’s a topic that everyone is either sick or tired of. It feels weird and wrong not to talk about it; talking about it feels boring, loud, and hopeless.

Supposedly there was an online petition SNL Not going the grief route like the 2016 post-election cold open Kate McKinnon-who spent years playing the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton— Performed a version of Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” on the piano. (For what it’s worth, I loved this performance and put it on par in terms of emotional impact. SNLFirst show after September 11; when he was everyone’s favorite mayor at the time, Rudolph GiulianiHe was flanked by NYC firefighters and police officers.) Maya RudolphI hope he at least had a nice, tearful phone call with the Vice President. Kamala Harris did you show up this week? Would the cold open be somber, angry, or heartfelt? And what could possibly feel “right” when every answer feels exhausting and wrong right now?

The only thing I will say is that the cold open worked for me. It started with veterinarians Kenan Thompson, Bowen Yang, Ego NwodimAnd Heidi Gardner They speak sternly to the camera, laying out the compelling premises for President-elect Trump’s decisive victory as if an HR department were reading a script. But then they all flipped the script and started marveling at the Emperor’s magnificent wardrobe. Whatever the glitchy media’s problem with Trump, SNL His family always had his back. (Except all Michael Chewarned Colin Jostspelling out her co-host’s last name, in case Trump starts working on his list of enemies.) “I was one of the proud 8% (of Black women) who voted for you,” Nwodim promised. “If we find out that someone here voted for Kamala, we will report them very quickly,” Yang said. sarah sherman To take revenge, he released “three new disgusting players” as scapegoats.

Someone remained poor James Austin JohnsonI imagine he was the drunkest member of the entire cast in his “hot, jacket-wearing Trump” muscle outfit on Tuesday. “Hail King” Marcello Hernandez praised. The only big laugh out there was this: Dana CarveyThe turning point of playing president Joe Biden play Elon Musk. He jumped and raised his arms in the air like an idiot-I will miss you the most, Governor Walz— and then the actors offered America’s disaffected young men a rendition of “YMCA” Beautiful, tender chaos.