Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden channelled Ace Ventura to skewer Donald Trump with a drawn out looooser dig in a Saturday Night Live sketch that was largely a celebration of the US election result.
It was a strange confluence of events with “SNL” addressing a Joe Biden victory the same day he was announced as the victor in the 2020 election.
Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris even managed to slip into a white suit similar to what the real Harris wore in her first vice presidential remarks just hours earlier.
The audience went wild as Rudoph’s Harris listed all her firsts: “First female, first Black, first Indian-American, first biracial vice president.”
“[If] any of that terrifies you, I don’t give a funt,” Maya was heard saying, in character as Kamala Harris. “Also my husband will be the first second gentleman, and he’s Jewish so, between us, we check more boxes than a disqualified ballot.”
Alec Baldwin turned up in what could be his last ever SNL appearance as Trump, which Baldwin has repeatedly said can’t happen fast enough.
“I was re-elected president of the United States,” he announced. “But of course they are trying to steal the election away from me.”
Then Baldwin moved to a piano on stage, and accompanied himself as he sang quietly: “I’ve got to be a macho, macho man.”
He wrapped up: “I’m not going to say goodbye, America. I’m just going to say, ‘See you in court!’”
The piano moment recalled Kate McKinnon’s moving rendition of Hallelujah four years ago, after Hillary Clinton’s defeat.
Check out the sketch in full at the top of this article.