The comic Nate Bargatze hosted an episode that opened with another political sketch featuring the guest stars Dana Carvey, Jim Gaffigan, Maya Rudolph and Andy Samberg.
Last week, America got the answer to the question: Who would play the presidential and vice-presidential nominees this season on “Saturday Night Live”?
This week, another pressing question arose: How quickly would “S.N.L.” reference Senator JD Vance’s quote, “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check” from Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate?
The answer came late in an opening sketch that parodied the debate, and which featured most of the same players from last weekend’s opening, including Bowen Yang as Vance and Jim Gaffigan as Gov. Tim Walz.
Welcomed to their podiums by Heidi Gardner (as Norah O’Donnell) and Chloe Fineman (as Margaret Brennan), the candidates each made a brief opening statement.
Yang, observing that he wanted to make an appeal to women voters, said, “I understand that both moderators tonight are mothers, and I like that.”
Gaffigan was observed scribbling furiously on a notepad and explained that he was not taking notes for the debate. “I got to grade these papers,” he said. “Got a stack of midterms.”
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