Earlier, the New York Times has reported that the Democratic Presidential candidate will appear on the show and guess who will ring the bell?
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Saturday Night Live returned for season 41 last night with a couple of surprise appearances and a few great sketches.
But three of the sketches that will be most remembered didn’t include Cyrus at all: Hillary Clinton Meets Her Doppelganger, Sorority Girls Wake Up To A World Filled With Taylor Swift Squad Clones and Donald And Melania Trump Talks About His Being President.
Clinton plays a bartender named Val who is counseling McKinnon’s rendition of herself. That’s the shot that was the least distracting, where you could focus on Cyrus’ voice (which IS really powerful) instead of her Rapunzel-on-acid costume for her first song “Karen, Don’t Be Sad” and the multi-coloured yarn wig for second performance “The Twinkle Song”.
“Fair point”, the real Clinton said.
“Oh Val, I’m just so darn bummed”, McKinnon’s character said.
But maybe the whole thing felt too forced to you-like Clinton has a whole team of people behind her giving her annotated notes on how to appear more accessible and honest (something which is nearly certainly true, for better or worse). Her best moment came around 3:01, where she did a very credible Donald Trump impression.
The skit also tackled her position on gay marriage, the legalization of which Clinton opposed during her 2008 White House campaign – a position she switched in March 2013.
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Clinton also tried her hand at impersonating Trump. “I’m just thrilled he’s got these unbelievable women doing these impersonations, and I want to see how it goes”. Real Hillary Clinton introduced her and upstaged her. We’re talking Hillary today, not Miley, which is another way Clinton helped “SNL”. No shocks: The first episode, hosted by riley Miley Cyrus, SNL used candidate fodder for the cold open, the commercial spot, Weekend Update, and the drumroll-please guest star: Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton. McKinnon, with her wacky delivery, energized a spoof about millennials in the workplace who are “trying to find the success and love they’re entitled to”.
