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Saturday Night Live’s cold open was once again devoted to politics, as Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin spoofed Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in a skit about the second debate. While I think SNL’s political writing has been mostly on-point thus far, you can really feel that the writers struggled with this skit. Like, if you watched the actual debate, the whole thing was so profoundly strange and skit-like already, so how do you spoof something that is already like a spoof? That being said, Kate and Alec nailed it, Kate especially. If anything, I worry that Alec is making Trump into too much of a harmless buffoon. Trump is not harmless!!

I liked “Nah, I’m good” and Trump calling the black guy “Denzel.” The Jaws music was a good touch, although once again… it was SO MUCH weirder and more disturbing in real life, the way Trump stalked HRC on that stage.

SNL also did a skit/music video called Melanianade, where Melania Trump and the Trump-associated women spoof Beyonce’s Lemonade. This is clever! SNL’s host Emily Blunt played Ivanka Trump. Shout out to Beck Bennett for once again nailing Mike Pence’s whole vibe too, and Alec Baldwin does another cameo as Trump.

Incidentally, does anyone else think it’s interesting that SNL isn’t doing a mid-week special like they did during the 2008 campaign? You would think that since they have such great casting picks with Kate and Alec, they would go full-on with their political stuff. I suspect that… people at NBC are really nervous about their long-standing relationship with Trump.

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Screencaps courtesy of SNL.
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