‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Stings Herschel Walker With His Own Words As He Faces Georgia Senate Runoff - Deadline

The Saturday Night Live acold unfastened utilized Herschel Walker’s ain gaffe ups and bizarre words against him to skewer his Senate bid, arsenic the Republican Senate campaigner successful Georgia faces disconnected against Democrat Raphael Warnock.

In existent life, Walker’s post-Election Day runoff has been marked by his comments astir vampires and werewolves, arsenic good arsenic a slip-up that was a spot Freudian fixed the allegations and revelations that person emerged since the shot prima entered the governmental arena.

In the skit, Walker (Kenan Thompson) is visiting the bureau of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (James Austin Johnson), arsenic helium and different colleagues are anxious for immoderate benignant of triumph aft Republican hopes of retaking the bulk were dashed successful the astir caller midterms. But the seasoned politicians person to contend with a candidate, Walker, who seems to beryllium investigating however overmuch voters volition judge erstwhile it comes to deficiency of qualifications. In the skit, Walker archetypal refers to McConnell arsenic “Mitch McDonalds.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (Cecily Strong) tells Walker, “The precedence present is to get retired the ballot due to the fact that you person got this large runoff coming up.”

Walker responds, “Oh, well, I americium bully astatine those. My ex woman said each I bash is tally off.”

At 1 point, Walker tells McConnell & co., “I’m feeling precise assured astir this erection.”

“You mean, election?” McConnell asks him.

“I bash not,” Walker responds.

Walker truly did person specified a gaffe up connected the run trail. And aboriginal successful the skit, the SNL writers took purpose astatine Walker’s notation to vampires and werewolves successful a run speech, thing that Warnock’s run has utilized successful run ads.

“Maybe successful the last push, let’s laic debased and absorption connected the message,” Blackburn tells Walker.

“Exactly. Just similar Kanye,” Walker responds.

“No. No. The issues radical attraction astir — inflation, crime,” Blackburn says.

“Vampires, werewolves. They’re frightened of the Geico gecko. We’re going to beryllium looking astatine each of that,” Walker tells her.

As Walker goes on, McConnell yet comes up with his Hail Mary walk — a “Plan B.” That is to get Walker into his “panic room.” “It’s each yours, conscionable until Election Day. … Got everything you request successful there.”

“It’s lone for a fewer days,” McConnell tells him, earlier the skit ended, alternatively abruptly.

Thompson appeared arsenic Walker and Johnson arsenic McConnell earlier this play during a Weekend Update segment. This time, successful utilizing immoderate of Walker’s ain words, the skit had immoderate shades to the pre-2008 SNL election skit featuring Tina Fey arsenic Sarah Palin. That skit utilizing immoderate of Palin’s existent comments from a disastrous CBS News interrogation with Katie Couric, reinforcing concerns that the GOP vice statesmanlike nominee was not qualified for the job.

Watch the skit above.