In its final live episode before Election Day, “Saturday Night Live” took the opportunity to get in a few extra jabs at each candidate’s expense before taking a surprising turn to break the fourth wall — and stopping just short of making a political endorsement.
Saturday’s show kicked off with a cold open similar to what we’ve seen all season with Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump and Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton facing off in split-screen, this time poking fun at the investigation over Clinton’s emails.
“I never use emails,” Trump boasts. “I use a very private, very secure site where one can write whatever they want to and no one can read it It’s called Twitter.”
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When the two run out of the building I think my show’s starting. That Arcade Fire song is what I use for my opening https://t.co/6vStWwaTUS
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) November 6, 2016
SNL had gone flat in recent years. Its parody of this election has brought the show back. Alec Baldwin is priceless as Trump.
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