‘SNL’ Just Can’t Wait for Trump to Return to the White House—Really!
This week Saturday night live is proof that we are not ready to handle the election. It’s a topic that everyone is sick of or bored with. Not talking about it feels strange and wrong; Talking about it feels dull, noisy, and hopeless.
There is said to be an online petition for the SNL not follow the path of grief as in the 2016 post-election expansion, when Kate McKinnon—who spent the year playing the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton—sings a version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” on piano. (I love that performance for its own merits and consider it on par for emotional impact SNLfirst program about 9/11—when the mayor was everyone’s favorite at the time, Rudolph Giulianistanding next to NYC firefighters and police officers.) Will Maya Rudolphwho I hope at least had a pleasant phone call with the Vice President Kamala Harris This week, appear? Will that cold opening statement be dark or angry or sincere? And what can even make you feel “right” when every current response feels tired and wrong?
All that to say, cold openness worked for me. It starts with the veterinarian Kenan Thompson, Bowen Yang, Ego NwodimAnd Heidi Gardner spoke directly to the camera, listing the shocking premise of President-elect Trump’s decisive victory as if they were HR reading a script. But then they all flipped the script and began to marvel at the Emperor’s amazing wardrobe. Whatever the problem the non-mainstream media has with Trump, well SNL His family always has his support. (All except Michael Chewarning Colin Jostspell out the co-manager’s last name in case Trump wants to get on his enemies list.) “I am one of the proud 8% [of Black women] who voted for you,” Nwodim promised. “If we find out someone here voted for Kamala, we will remove them very quickly,” Yang said. Sarah Sherman hang their “three new disgusting actors” as scapegoats for him to exact revenge.
Some poor stranded people James Austin Johnsonwho I imagine was the drunkest actor on Tuesday, in his “hot, sexy Trump” muscle suit. “King Heil,” Marcello Hernandez praise. The only loud laugh of the opening was Dana Carveydiverted from playing the role of President Joe Biden to play Elon Musk. He jumped around and threw his arms in the air like some nonsense—I will miss you the most, Governor Walz—and then the cast treated America’s disaffected young men to a performance of “YMCA” Good, light-hearted chaos.
