SNL opens with 'Macho Man' Trump's loss and Biden-Harris victory speeches
Jim Carrey’s president-elect makes an Ace Ventura cameo as Alec Baldwin gets behind the piano
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Your support makes all the difference.Hours after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris delivered their victory remarks following the results of the 2020 presidential election, the first post-election Saturday Night Live episode opened with Jim Carrey and Maya Rudolph parodying the president-elect and vice-president-elect making their own speeches.
“We did it,” he said as the new president-elect. “Can you believe it? I honestly kind of can’t. It’s been so long since something good happened. … I’ve never felt so alive, which is ironic because I’m not that alive."
The actor, as president-elect Biden, also revived his Ace Ventura character to send a message to Donald Trump: “There are situations in life, and this is one of them, where there must be a winner and – a loser.”
Ms Rudolph, as the California senator, listed her diverse background: first female, Black, Indian-American vice president, along with her Jewish first-ever First Husband.
“Between us we check more boxes than a disqualified ballot,” she said.
Alec Baldwin, who has portrayed the president on the sketch series since 2016, pointed to a “red wave” across the US – for coronavirus cases – after declaring that “as anyone who died halfway through Tuesday knows, I was re-elected president of the United States" then walked to an off-stage piano for a somber rendition of the Village People’s “Macho Man."
Following the 2016 election, Kate McKinnon, as Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, sat behind a piano at Studio 8H to sing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”
Comedian Dave Chappelle also returned to host the show for the first time since that previous post-election episode four years ago.
The sketch comedy series’ 46th season has returned to the studio following an abbreviated 15-episode season that carried into a three-episode, remotely produced Saturday Night Live at Home series to round out the season.
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