Late-night sketch show “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) poked fun at Democrats and the Biden administration during its cold opening last weekend.
As the show opened its 48th season, actor Miles Teller pointed out the sketch comedy’s liberal bias as he played Peyton Manning talking with his brother Eli, who is played by featured cast member Andrew Dismukes.
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“Oh, good a Trump sketch. Way to mix it up,” Teller said sarcastically as cast members acted out a scene set at Mar-a-Lago, which is a reference to the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s private residence last August.
“I gotta mention, where’s the balance politically?” the “Top Gun Maverick” star complained after a cast member made a joke about explorer Christopher Columbus. “They’re making Trump-Columbus jokes, meanwhile Biden’s lost his damn marbles.”
The two went on to critique the cast members’ performances in the sketch, noting the four new comedians in light of the cast shakeup after last season.
“The new guy’s just panicking he’s just staring at the camera,” Dismukes as Eli said of Longfellow after saying that he had forgotten to shut the door following his bit part in the sketch. “That might be the only time we see him tonight.”
Later in the sketch, fellow “Top Gun” actor Jon Hamm made a surprise appearance and threw shade at Teller by saying sometimes “SNL” will bring in real celebrities when the episode’s host isn’t famous enough.
“I mean, when they couldn’t get the star of the big summer movie: your Tom Cruise or your Jon Hamm, they had to get the co-star,” Hamm told Teller of why he was brought in.
“Well, I heard they rarely put the hosts in the cold open, so when they do, it is special,” Teller replied.
“Special? Or is it desperate?” Hamm clapped back.
Democrats and liberals are increasingly growing frustrated over President Joe Biden’s failed policies, which many fear could cost the party their majority in both houses of Congress during the midterms.
An ABC News/The Washington Post poll found recently that 56 percent of Democratic voters don’t want Biden to run for re-election in 2024, while only 35 percent said he should run for a second term.
