It’s no shock that Saturday Evening Dwell‘s milestone fiftieth season kicked off with a give attention to probably the most highly-anticipated occasions… the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
The new batch of political candidates was revealed throughout Saturday night time’s chilly open, with Maya Rudolph starring as Kamala Harris, Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz, Dana Carvey as Joe Biden and Andy Samberg as Douglas Emhoff. SNL forged members James Austin Johnson and Bowen Yang performed Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, respectively.
The digicam first lower to Rudolph’s Harris after Andrew Dismukes’s David Muir with ABC Information stated they have been going to be checking in with every candidate out on the marketing campaign path at their respective rallies.
“Properly, your enjoyable aunt has returned,” Rudolph’s Harris initially says. “I’m so glad to be campaigning in no matter swing state I’m in, which I’ll simply consult with as Wisconsin-Pennsylv-Georgia as a result of I’m going to guard your Va-Georgia.”
“You see, my marketing campaign is just like the Sabrina Carpenter tune ‘Espresso,’” Rudolph’s Harris continues throughout her speech. “The lyrics are imprecise however the vibe slaps.”
“Now this election is about shifting ahead,” she provides earlier than introducing her overly excited working mate. “You see, Donald Trump is caught prior to now, nevertheless it’s like I say to my husband Doug when he leaves his telephone on the Chili’s, ‘We aren’t going again!’”
Gaffigan’s Walz then proceeded to return onto the stage with an enormous smile. “I haven’t been this excited since I bought a ten % rebate on a leaf blower for Menards,” he says. “Can I say, I bought that B.D.E…. Huge Dad Power. You see what I did there?”
“I bought it. I didn’t need it, however I bought it,” Rudolph’s Harris quips, earlier than later saying, “Tim is just not the one white dude for Harris right here as we speak.”
She then brings out her husband, Samberg’s Emhoff, who has a robust message for Republicans, “I’ve heard what the best says about me simply because I’m unapologetic about being a person supporting his spouse: ‘Oh, he’s a beta, a spouse man, a trad husband, slightly spoon.’ You already know what, if serving to Kamala — who we name Mamala in my household — grow to be president means being slightly spoon, then you possibly can kiss my little butt.”
Dismukes’s Muir then tossed to Trump’s rally, the place the previous president went off on a number of tangents, together with how a lot he misses Joe Biden.
“Oh Joe, we miss Joe Biden of us. What we wouldn’t give to have him stand subsequent to me and be previous,” Johnson’s Trump says. “We had this within the bag, however then they did a switcheroo.”
The previous president then introduced out his working mate, who had just a few attention-grabbing phrases to share. “Simply this afternoon, he [Trump] informed me, ‘J.D., you’re like a son to me as a result of I don’t such as you, however I’m caught with you.’”
After Dismukes’s Muir shortly lower away from Trump’s rally, he then went again to Harris’ occasion, “the place the dancing seems to be wrapping up.” Rudolph’s Harris introduced out Carvey’s Biden as her remaining visitor.
“Lots of people overlook I’m president, together with me,” Carvey’s Biden jokes.
Jean Good hosted the season 50 premiere of NBC’s sketch comedy present with musical visitor Jelly Roll. She poked enjoyable at SNL in the course of the monologue, saying, “I bear in mind watching the very first episode of SNL and considering, ‘Sometime, I’m gonna host that present.’ And that is the primary Saturday that labored with my schedule.”
The actress additionally highlighted totally different points of New York Metropolis, the place SNL is filmed. Good says she likes “the stink of it,” particularly within the autumn when “all the rubbish on the road is lastly altering colours, lovely, lovely.” She later took a jab at lately indicted NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who’s dealing with federal expenses alleging that he took unlawful marketing campaign contributions and bribes from international nationals.