"Saturday Night Live" is notorious for its post-election riffs and the formed did not disappoint aft the midterm elections.
The NBC sketch show's acold unfastened centered astir erstwhile President Donald Trump's severed narration with Fox News and voter fraud allegations successful Arizona.
"Fox & Friends" hosts Steve Doocy (Mikey Day), Ainsley Earhardt (Heidi Gardner) and Brian Kilmeade (Bowen Yang) discussed everyone "turning connected Trump" and however Fox informed each employees the erstwhile president is "dead to us."
"Nearly each campaigner Trump backed past week mislaid but for 1 who's inactive hanging connected by a thread and she's present with america today," Doocy said arsenic helium introduced Republican gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake (Cecily Strong) from Arizona.
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"It's my content that the predetermination is rigged and the results should beryllium thrown out," Lake declared erstwhile Earhardt informed her that results are putting her "neck and neck" with her Democrat opponent.
Throughout the segment, results continuously changed. When they were successful Lake's favor, she said, "I've ever said this is simply a democracy. Trust the system." But erstwhile they weren't, the mock campaigner stated, "Our strategy is broken."
Despite "Fox & Friends" curbing Trump (James Austin Johnson), the erstwhile president inactive managed to get connected the air. "Everyone goes to Florida for the sunshine, but look … I made (Gov.) Ron DeSantis. He was going to suffer until I sent FBI agents to spell and hole this election. But he's ungrateful and present he's trying to bargain my sunshine," Trump told the hosts.
Trump was past informed that helium tin nary longer travel backmost connected "Fox & Friends." "What did I do? Was it the insurrection? The impeachments? Blackmailing Ukraine? Charlottesville? The murder? Kidding," helium said earlier squeezing successful the information that helium is going for re-election.
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'SNL' previews Season 2 of HBO's 'House of the Dragon'
The midterm elections whitethorn beryllium astatine the forefront of everyone's minds, but for "SNL" big Dave Chappelle, it's HBO's "House of the Dragon."
"I emotion that they're including Black characters. But to beryllium honest, the Black characters instrumentality maine retired a small bit. … It's a small jarring," Chappelle joked. "You're like where are these radical from?"
The comedian said "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels was capable to unafraid an exclusive preview of Season 2 of "House of the Dragon."
Lord of the Tides (Kenan Thompson) visited the queen aft coming backmost from sea. "This is wherever my radical are the astir comfortable. The ocean. We particularly emotion being connected ships. We've ne'er had immoderate concerns with ships oregon what mightiness hap to america connected ships," helium joked.
Chappelle appeared successful the sketch arsenic respective characters including Rick James and drug idiosyncratic Tyrone Biggums from his erstwhile Comedy Central show. Special guests Ice-T and Donnell Rawlings reprised their characters from "The Playa Haters Ball."
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