As the nation makes its last approach to Election Day and partizan initiate shout their worst - case presidential scenarios to the rooftops , most of us can use a boastful , tender hug . This week’sSaturday Night Liveprovided .
The show has spent each sequence this seasonlampooning Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton ’s vicious battle for the Oval Office , butSNLtook a bass breath with its last pre - vote cold open by stepping back from it usual back breaker of crazy . The message was exculpated : while the show ’s plaster bandage , writers , and guest Host ( like"hot " Benedict Cumberbatch ) still want to make you laugh or babble out along ( hello , Bill Murray and the Chicago Cubs ) , this political decision is no laugh matter .
Without a debate to mock ( round three went down two weeks ago – remember"bad hombre"?),SNLsqueezed last remarks from the two nominee in an imagined CNN - set split up - screenland face - off . Even though Trump literally buss the FBI , Vladimir Putin , and a extremity of the KKK , all that phony Erin Burnett ( Cecily Strong ) wants to know about is Hillary ’s emails – a fitting send - up of the brain - blunt media insurance coverage that continues to equal both candidates ' infractions for the sake of a sawbuck race . And then the sketch grinds to a halt .
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Fed up with all the insult - catapult , Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon gap character to accommodate that play these two presidential aspirer is exhausting as inferno . If you think it feels risky watching Election 2016 from afar , they say , just think how embodying it calendar week to week must feel . So the sketch switches gear mechanism . The payoff may leave you with hope , no matter how much close at hand doom you ’re feel as we descend into Election Day .
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