Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made a special appearance on last night’s edition of Saturday Night Live alongside guest host Larry David, who has famously appeared before on the show playing Sanders. “De-mo-cra-tic socialism. Huge difference”, Sanders corrects.
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“I am so sick of the 1 percent getting this preferential treatment”, he said, injecting his inequality message to solve a lifeboat dispute. She also wanted to know why Clinton felt compelled to delete so many personal emails from her private account as secretary of state – “everybody knows you can’t write 30,000 emails to your yoga instructor”.
But if you started watching SNL looking to #FeelTheBern, you might have had a moment of worry, at least at first.
So what did the Democratic presidential hopeful and New Hampshire favorite do on the show?
“In terms of Larry David, I think we’re going to put him up on the stage at our next rally – let him do it rather than me”, Sanders said at an Iowa campaign stop after the show aired. “Though rumors of Sanders” appearance had been confirmed prior to the episode’s broadcast, the 75-year-old senator was nowhere to be found in the show’s cold open or David’s monologue. “Enough is enough-we need to unite and work together if we’re going to get through this”, he growls, to which David replies that sounds like socialism.
The scene ended happily when it turned out that the boat had actually crashed into the Liberty Island and was already in NY.
“I’m Bernie Sanderswitzky”, he says. Posing as an early 20th century version of himself, the notoriously frank senator pushed his best one-liners about the economy and the wealth gap on a stubborn shipman played by none other than Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David.
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The sketch ends with Sanders asking David to share a cab. But regardless of the election results, Bernie has already won the position of America’s newest folk hero. Back at his headquarters Bernie watches the result of the Iowa caucus and realizes he has lost by five votes: four people from the sneezing incident and the woman in the auto.
