Saturday Night Live Season 50 Premiere Recap: Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris Sets the Tone in the Cold Open
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Saturday Night Live Season 50 Premiere Recap: Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris Sets the Tone in the Cold Open

Politics tamfitronics All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission.There’s a sketch from an October 2016 episode of Saturday Night Live that—no matter how you voted in the last two presidential elections, or how you will in this year’s trilogy-conclusion-coded contest—will give you time-traveling goosebumps.The episode aired nine days after the leak of the infamous Access Hollywood tape, in which former president Donald Trump exalted grabbing women “by the pussy.” The sketch is the cold open, the first of the night. The camera settles in on former cast members Cecily Strong and Alex Moffat, both playing journalists moderating a debate between Trump (played, then, by Alec Baldwin) and Hillary Clinton, played by Kate McKinnon. McKinnon’s take on Clinton by this point in the election was...
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