'SNL' Cold Open: Maya Rudolph Moderates Final Debate With Mute Button

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Saturday Night Live ample time to celebrate President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' historic victory. Jim Carrey and Maya Rudolph returned to portray Biden and Harris.

Joe Biden was projected as president-elect of the United States, Saturday Night Liverolled up for its last election year cold open.

who may or may not end up playing Joe Biden for the next four years, and Maya Rudolph, who definitely will be playing Kamala Harris through 2024.The episode began with a nod to the fact that it took days for news outlets to finally declare a victor (more on that below), with Beck bennet as CNN host Wolf Blitzer announcing that Biden won.

Jim Carrey and Maya Rudolph reprised their roles as President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live hours after the duo’s historic win.Carrey, 58, and Rudolph, 48, poked fun at the election on the Saturday, November 7, episode of the NBC sketch comedy show, which was hosted by Dave Chappelle.“We did it. Can you believe it? I actually kind of can’t.

It was no surprise this week that the last 2020 presidential election sketch of “Saturday Night Live” threw back to 2016’s memorable result.Four years ago, an emotional Kate McKinnon, playing Hillary Clinton, sat behind a grand piano on the Studio 8H stage and played a mournful rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” to protest Donald Trump’s shock victory.

was brimming with joy and excitement following Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' election victory, and it was evident in this weekend's cold open. The extremely timely sketch focused on a speech Biden and Harris delivered just hours before airtime.Jim Carrey reprised his role as Biden, and shared a message of celebration and unity.«Thank you very much, America.

election results — complete with Maya Rudolph donning a white suit like Vice President-elect Kamala Harris wore for her acceptance speech.Jim Carrey played President-elect Joe Biden, taking the stage and poking fun at the five-day wait for results.

Alec Baldwin is suiting up as Donald Trump for possibly the last time.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAfter several weeks of partially losing the political plot, Saturday Night Live came out blazing tonight as Donald Trump’s reign of error begins to end, at least officially.In a throwback to the first SNL after the election of 2016, the skit saw Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump give a concession serenade, kind of.

announced as the presumed winner of the 2020 presidential race on Saturday.Biden appeared twice on the sitcom, which ran on NBC from 2009 to 2015.On the show, Knope called Biden “the only other man who’s as sexy” as her on-screen husband Ben Wyatt, played by Adam Scott. She had described her ideal man as having “the brains of George Clooney in the body of Joe Biden.”“Do you know Joe Biden? He’s on my celebrity sex list.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorU.S. stock opened higher Wednesday with tech leading after massive gyrations overnight as the U.S.

Tuesday’s presidential election went much further than the show did in 2016.Playing Hillary Clinton four years ago, Kate McKinnon looked at the audience and said, “We can’t tell you who to vote for, but on Tuesday, we all get a chance to choose what kind of country we wanna live in.” Vague enough, right?Well, this week was a hell of a lot more specific than that.As former Vice President Joe Biden, Jim Carrey took on a Halloween theme during the cold open and read a parody version of Edgar Allan

Jim Carrey's Joe Biden kicked his off with a message to the American people in the Saturday Night Live cold open — this was, of course, the last episode of the show before the Nov. 3 election — where he came to read a scary story of potential election outcomes.

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden offered sharply different visions of how to handle the surging pandemic and fought over how much Trump pays in taxes during their final debate of a tumultuous campaign. With Trump trailing and needing to change the campaign's trajectory, the debate could prove pivotal though more than 46 million votes already have been cast and there are fewer undecided voters than at this point in previous election years.

Donald Trump steamrolled Chris Wallace with constant interruptions in the first one, a performance that cost the Republican incumbent support in the polls. Susan Page struggled to make the vice presidential candidates adhere to time limits their campaigns had agreed to in advance.Next up: Kristen Welker.The NBC News White House correspondent is scheduled to moderate Thursday's second and last session between Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsThe Commission on Presidential Debates revealed Monday that it will use mute buttons during the upcoming presidential debates to ensure both Donald Trump and Joe Biden both say their piece in the provided two minutes.

2020 presidential debates is just about here. After a chaotic first matchup between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, a more subdued (but still buzzy) vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, and dueling Trump-Biden town hall events in lieu of a second debate, the whole process has felt long and, at times, extremely disorderly.