“Saturday Night time Reside” despatched up its clear opposition to Donald Trump within the first chilly open after his election victory this week, with the present’s actors pretending they supported him all alongside.
The present began out lethal severe, with solid member Ego Nwodim saying that Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris was “surprising and even horrifying” to many individuals. Because the solid solemnly famous there have been no protections now for individuals who are “courageous sufficient to talk out towards him,” the punchline got here as solid member Kenan Thompson mentioned, “We at SNL wish to say to Donald Trump, now we have been with you all alongside.”
“We’ve got by no means wavered in your assist of you, even when others doubted you,” solid member Bowen Yang mentioned.
The skit went on to joke that all the liberal solid voted for Trump and needed their kids to emulate him, and they’d rat out anybody at SNL who voted for Harris.
Saturday Night time Reside solid members jokingly appeared solemn about Donald Trump’s election victory. (NBC / SNL)
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James Austin Johnson, who portrays Trump, appeared donning a muscular bodysuit for SNL’s new impression of “scorching, jacked Trump,” rolling his eyes. Dana Carvey additionally made a cameo to parody billionaire Elon Musk, who the solid additionally mentioned they assist.
“Hail Trump,” Thompson mentioned at one level.
Comic Invoice Burr hosted the episode on Saturday and addressed the election in his monologue, telling the “women” to stop with the pantsuits.
“Girls, you are 0-2 towards this man,” Burr mentioned. “Sufficient with the pantsuits. It’s not working. Cease making an attempt to have respect for yourselves. You don’t win the workplace like on coverage, ? You have to whore it up a bit. I’m not saying go full Hooters. Discover the comfortable medium between Applebee’s and your dad didn’t stick round.”
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Burr went on to poke enjoyable at undecided voters within the race and in addition counsel Trump survived his first assassination try due to his “herky jerky actions” on the stage.
Invoice Burr hosts SNL on Nov. 9, 2024. (NBC / SNL)
“The man is a lunatic,” Burr mentioned of Trump. “I imply, he actually obtained shot and instantly jumped again up and began yelling within the path the bullets have been coming from, unarmed. That’s not a sane human being. I’d have been on the bottom within the fetal place like, ‘I don’t need the job! Inform her she received! Inform her she received!'”
Burr memorably appeared on “Conan” after Trump’s inauguration in 2017 and stunned the liberal viewers by blasting Hillary Clinton for blowing the election.
SNL has executed little to cover its derision for Trump through the years, who hosted the present twice, together with throughout his first presidential run in 2015. Trump rapidly fell out of favor at SNL, which overtly celebrated his defeat at Joe Biden’s arms in 2020.
It additionally did its greatest to spice up Harris, giving her a visitor spot on the ultimate present earlier than the election final week. She appeared because the “mirror picture” on Saturday night time of herself, portrayed by Maya Rudolph, on the finish of the chilly open in entrance of a cheering viewers.
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, Melania Trump and Barron Trump, arrive at an election night time watch occasion, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Seaside, Fla. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
Two days later, Trump simply defeated Harris, finishing a outstanding political comeback and turning into solely the second president ever to win non-consecutive phrases.
This time, the present tried some laughs in its chilly open after grappling with a disappointing election consequence.
SNL mourned Clinton’s loss to Trump in 2016, with actress Kate McKinnon as Clinton enjoying “Hallelujah” on the piano and tearfully telling the viewers she wasn’t “giving up, and neither do you have to.”
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The present later parodied liberals who had confidently predicted a Republican would by no means win the White Home once more and have been certain Clinton would win.
