After rumors circulated that Bernie Sanders, Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate, would appear on Saturday Night Live, he did indeed make an appearance alongside host Larry David.
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It was an especially natural fit with Larry David hosting, as he’s already performed a dead-on impression of Sanders several times already this season.
“Sounds like socialism to me”, David replied.
In Saturday’s skit, David played a ship crew member angry about women and children getting the first seats in lifeboats.
At that, Sanders appeared, saying he was sick of the top 1 percent getting all of the advantages, echoing his campaign’s call for the super-rich not to get so many benefits in society. “Enough is enough! We need to unite and work together, if we are all going to get through this”. “Now’s the part where I have to say we have a great show”, he said at the end of his monologue. With a prompt from David, that intro gave Sanders the ideal entree to deliver one of his signature stump phrases: “Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good”, he said.
Another skit on the show parodied Sanders’s loss in Iowa.
In keeping with Sanders’ reputation for occasional crankiness, the sketch revolved around Sanders, as played by David, resisting efforts to shake hands with a voter after she coughed into her hand.
“So, Bernie, how’s things going up in New Hampshire?”
“What’s the difference?” David asks.
Sanders’ cameo comes just days before the New Hampshire Democratic primary.
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“Yuge difference”, Sanders responds in Donald Trump tone. He is the latest candidate to take the “SNL” stage.
