SNL Skewers Senate Impeachment Trial

Saturday Night Live has been dark for more than a month, but it returned with lots of impeachment ground to cover.  Here are some of the comments from the Weekend Update hosts (watch above).

Colin Jost: “Mitch McConnell defended his plan for the trial, saying, ‘I think the country is waiting to see if we can rise to the occasion. I would maybe say you’re not rising to the occasion considering one senator fell asleep, Rand Paul was doing a crossword puzzle and some Republican senators even brought fidget spinners to play with. I assume they were to symbolize how the Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves.”

Michael Che: “I didn’t watch one minute of that trial. It was like a four-day-long PowerPoint. This is supposed to be Trump’s punishment, not mine.” 

And the cold open took a dark turn portraying Trump’s defense attorney, Alan Dershowitz, making a trip to hell. SNL brought back former cast member Jon Lovitz to take on the role.

And things turned more bizarre as Jeffrey Epstein joined Dershowitz in hell:

“It’s wonderful to be here. Because I’m not welcome anywhere else. There’s a lot of haters out there, for no good reason. But like I said to my client and dear friend Jeffrey Epstein, haters gonna hate!”