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Saturday Night Live Recap: John Mulaney Helps Get Us Through The Election
Kamala Harris picked a good episode to drop by Studio 8H.
For now, though, this final pre-election cold open bears neither the smug, faux-conciliatory façade of 2016 — when Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin broke out of character and dashed through Times Square holding hands, to the soaring strains of Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” — nor the gloomy resignation of 2020 — when Jim Carrey as Joe Biden read a rote satirical take on Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven. This tribute to the ill-fitting celebrity guest spots on sitcoms of yore rises to incredible heights of lunacy and requires not a lick of prior knowledge about Little Richard to pull laughs from viewers. • Chappell Roan had the crowd singing the chorus of “Pink Pony Club” with her during an amped-up performance before debuting brand-new queer cowgirl anthem “The Giver” later on.
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