‘SNL’ Cold Open Gets Hot & Too Heavy-Handed With Joe Biden & Democrats’ Dwindling Midterm Election Prospects
06.11.2022 - 07:33
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Surprising almost no one except perhaps Kyrie Irving’s Crisis PR team, Saturday Night Live voted tonight for the midterm election in its last Cold Open before Tuesday’s balloting.
“My fellow Americans, this Tuesday, our midterm election will determine the fate of our democracy and let’s just say Big Yikes!” proclaimed James Austin Johnson as President Joe Biden. “I guess the Democrats’ message just isn’t getting through,” the SNL cast featured player added in a mocking replication of POTUS’ big Union Station speech of earlier this week as polls show the Big Lie-dominated GOP looking to take back the House and maybe even the Senate.
“Folks, I’m trying like Hell, I promise,” the comedian went on to says as the sometimes disoriented 79-year-old Commander-in-chief. “I’m on the Peloton every morning tempting fate,”
Following up on last week’s garloching of sorts of GOP candidates Herschel Walker, Kari Lake and Dr. Oz, played by Kenan Thompson, Cecily String and Mikey Day respectively, tonight’s SNL laid into the communication problem, to put it lightly, the President and the Dems have had for most of this campaign cycle. With a quick reference to some Republicans putting erotic undercurrents to the attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband on October 28, Johnson’s Biden rolled out a list of legislative triumphs that seem to have been forgotten in the MAGA rhetoric – as you can see below:
President Biden has some bold ideas for the Democratic party pic.twitter.com/V9Hk6Z5E2i
On a day that saw the real Biden, Barack Obama, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and Donald Trump out on the stump in 11th hour bids for votes, the SNL Biden took a swipe at the adulation the 44th POTUS still gets. “How do you think that makes me feel?”
“Do