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SNL in the White House: 10 Most Memorable Trump Sketches of 2017
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Ubiquitous
Dec 17, 2017, 11:08:26 AM12/17/17
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From "Complicit" perfume to a bumbling Eric Trump character, the First
Family and Co. continued to make its mark on the NBC late-night staple
this year.
Saturday Night Live has had a hectic year, tackling a growing list of
Hollywood harassment stories [when did they do that?] as well as
neverending Trump coverage and weekly news. [emphasis on "neverending"]
But President Trump and Co. remained a hot topic on the NBC show, with
Alec Baldwin reprising his role as POTUS, with his family members and
White House team finding their own spotlight along the way. Scarlett
Johansson's "Complicit" perfume ad for Ivanka Trump inspired
Dictionary.com's word of the year, Alex Moffat's Eric Trump became a
recurring child-like guest on "Weekend Update" and Kate McKinnon's Jeff
Sessions appeared (often from underneath Trump's desk) as a sneaky-
Southern member of the administration.
Even some White House figures that have long been ousted from their
posts were vital to the show this year, including Melissa McCarthy's
Sean Spicer and Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway, who continued to
grace the show's sketches long after their departures.
See some of the most memorable sketches featuring Trump and Co. from
2017 below.
Ivanka Trump's "Complicit" Perfume Ad:
Host Scarlett Johansson's faux ad for Ivanka Trump's perfume
"Complicit" made such a mark on viewers that it inspired
Dictionary.com's word of the year for 2017.
In the SNL bit, Johansson walked through a lavish black-tie affair as a
voiceover introduced her: "She's beautiful, she's powerful, she's
complicit."
The White House employee and first daughter looked in a mirror, with
Alec Baldwin's Trump looking back at her.
"A feminist, an advocate, a champion for women, but, like, how?" the
voiceover asked, concluding with the tagline: "The fragrance for the
woman who could stop all this, but won't."
https://youtu.be/F7o4oMKbStE
Season 42 Finale: Trump Team Sings "Hallelujah":
Saturday Night Live brought together the castmembers that make up
President Donald Trump's cabinet for the season 42 finale cold open
this spring.
Alec Baldwin's Trump, seated at a piano, kicked things off by singing
the opening lines to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Scarlett Johansson's
Ivanka Trump, Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway, Beck Bennett's Mike
Pence, Cecily Strong's Melania Trump, Aidy Bryant's Sarah Huckabee
Sanders, Alex Moffatt's Eric Trump, Mikey Day's Donald Trump Jr. and
Grim Reaper/Steve Bannon joined in and sang along around the piano.
"I'm not giving up because I didn't do anything wrong, but I can't
speak for these people," Baldwin's Trump said at the close of the song.
https://youtu.be/70i8gTb3fZQ
Alec Baldwin Pulls Double Duty as Trump and Bill O'Reilly:
Alec Baldwin pulled double duty on SNL's April 8 episode, starring as
Bill O'Reilly in his very own no-spin zone, interviewing himself in a
split-screen appearance as President Donald Trump.
In a nod to the TV host's resurfaced sexual harassment allegations,
Baldwin's version of O'Reilly kicked off his Fox News show by
addressing "the scandal everyone's been talking about all week, the
shocking allegations of abuse of power that have been leveled against …
the Obama administration." After trying to avoid the subject, he
finally got to the allegations against him, and Baldwin's O'Reilly
admitted he had also been in the news as "women have come forward … and
accused me of offering them exciting opportunities here at Fox News."
One brave man, President Trump, appeared on the show to defend him once
again. Also played by Baldwin, Trump, a man "unimpeachable on all
female issues," told the host, "I actually see a lot of myself in you,
Bill."
Baldwin's O'Reilly signed off by promoting his book, called Old School.
"It's about having great morals and values, and it couldn't have come
at a better time."
https://youtu.be/7yq2CXkrZpo
"Weekend Update" Introduces the World to Eric Trump:
"Weekend Update" host Colin Jost sat down with the Trump sons, Donald
Jr. and Eric, in March to talk about the leadership at the Trump
businesses after the elder Trump took office.
Since then, Eric Trump (Alex Moffat) has become a regular staple on the
show with Donald Jr. (Mikey Day), bringing along his Cheerios, fidget
spinners and kids-size backpack.
In this episode, Eric Trump sat next to his brother, telling Jost about
his "golf car" and his sun hat, whole mimicking his brother's hand
movements and facial expressions. When he got hungry, Donald Jr.
brought out some Cheerios for his brother, but Eric had some trouble
with the Capri Sun. The brothers returned later this year to discuss
Paul Manafort and WikiLeaks.
https://youtu.be/-OBiSNOumtU
Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer as the Easter Bunny:
Melissa McCarthy returned as White House press secretary Sean Spicer in
April ... dressed in a full Easter Bunny suit.
Loudly addressing a group of children at the White House looking for
eggs, and first spoke about his flub earlier that week, claiming Adolf
Hitler never used chemical weapons on his own people and later called
concentration camps "Holocaust centers," McCarthy said, "Spicey finally
screwed up. You got me ... I clearly meant to say ‘concentration
clubs.' "
McCarthy went on to further apologize to “all the goys out there” for
the timing of the incident so close to Passover, or “what I call
'Jewish Easter,'” she added.
https://youtu.be/_RvfzFv3c6Y
Kellyanne Conway Transforms Into 'It' Clown:
During Oct. 14's Kumail Nanjiani-hosted episode, Pennywise the Clown
from It took the form of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway and appeared to
terrorize Anderson Cooper (Alex Moffat). Conway (played once again by
Kate McKinnon) appeared in a gutter: "You can call me Kellywise,
Kellywise the Dancing Clown."
Conway also taunted him when he tried to get away. "Don't go! I'll give
you a quote, a crazy quote," she said, going back into her on-
air/interview voice. "How about this? Okay, so Puerto Rico was actually
worse before Hurricane Maria and the hurricane actually did blow some
things back together." (President Donald Trump had lashed out at
hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico days before, insisting in tweets that
the federal government can't keep sending help "forever" and suggesting
the U.S. territory was to blame for its financial struggles.)
McKinnon even reprised her role as Hillary Clinton to further terrorize
Cooper, encouraging him to join her in the sewer so she can give him a
copy of her book.
https://youtu.be/Hlt3rA-oDao
Kate McKinnon's Jeff Sessions Is Forrest Gump:
SNL's March 4 episode opened with a parody of Forrest Gump, with Kate
McKinnon's Attorney General Jeff Sessions standing in for Tom Hanks'
titular character.
"My name's Jeff, Jeff Sessions," McKinnon told Leslie Jones while
sitting on a bus bench. "I'm the attorney general of the whole United
States."
"I always say life is like a box of chocolates," said the Sessions
character. But when he added, "Sure are a lot of brown ones in
there..." Jones immediately left.
Later, Beck Bennett's shirtless Vladimir Putin made an appearance.
"This meeting never happened," he told McKinnon's Sessions. Sessions
assured him: "I wasn't going to remember it anyway."
Octavia Spencer, who hosted that night, also made an appearance as her
character from The Help, and offered Sessions a pie that may have
looked like chocolate, but was something far worse.
https://youtu.be/8ZM3jvlvgVw
Trump Picks Top Adviser in Reality TV-Style Elimination Ceremony:
Celebrating Trump's first 100 days in office, Alec Baldwin appeared as
Trump in April with Beck Bennett's Vice President Mike Pence, while he
called for his advisers: Steve Bannon (in the form of the Grim Reaper)
and his "little kush ball,” Jared Kushner, played by cool guy Jimmy
Fallon entering to "You're Unbelievable."
In a spoof of reality show elimination ceremonies like America's Next
Top Model or Trump's former NBC show The Apprentice, Baldwin first
acknowledged "the drama in the house" before kicking one of his
advisers out of the oval office to “join Kellyanne Conway in the
basement.”
He then announced Kushner as the big winner by presenting a glamour
shot of Fallon, while Bannon’s skeletal form was taken "back to hell."
https://youtu.be/CgNgkwTusM4
Trump's Thoughts on Harvey Weinstein:Alec Baldwin (as President Trump)
started off the Nov. 4 episode at Paul Manafort's (Alex Moffat)
apartment for a memorable cold open that referenced timely
investigations as well as new claims against film mogul Harvey
Weinstein.
"You're so so screwed, it's a shame you're going to prison, because I
was about to give you a huuuuge tax break," Baldwin's Trump told the
fake Manafort, referring to news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's
investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election resulted
in indictments for Trump's former campaign chairman. Baldwin, as Trump,
joked that Manafort would need a shiv in prison "because after the
stuff I've said about certain ethnic groups, they're really gonna go to
town on you in prison."
Trump insisted on showering with him "to make sure you weren’t wearing
a wire."
"Mr. President, I would never do that with you," Manafort said, to
which Trump replied, "That's what she said. ... Speaking of which, what
an idiot that Harvey Weinstein is. He could have gotten away with all
of it if only he'd gotten himself elected president."
https://youtu.be/spkfIpPmPgs
"Melania Moments":
In a several short bits that ran throughout the year, Cecily Strong
starred as First Lady Melania Trump in "Melania Moments," an ongoing
series that echoed Jack Handy's "Deep Thoughts" of yesteryear.
In the Beck Bennett-narrated sketches, Melania (Strong) looks out her
Trump Tower and wondered: "What happens to them? To the people? Once
they leave Fifth Avenue? Where do they go? Do they disappear? Is there
a Sixth Avenue?"
In a later segment, she noticed that the housemaid looked like her,
wondering if they could switch places for a day. "That way, she
thought, I could go out into the world."
https://youtu.be/sComDKkYIKQ
[Ten SNL items. Lotsa Lefty hate, but Zero laughs.]
--
Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.
Family and Co. continued to make its mark on the NBC late-night staple
this year.
Saturday Night Live has had a hectic year, tackling a growing list of
Hollywood harassment stories [when did they do that?] as well as
neverending Trump coverage and weekly news. [emphasis on "neverending"]
But President Trump and Co. remained a hot topic on the NBC show, with
Alec Baldwin reprising his role as POTUS, with his family members and
White House team finding their own spotlight along the way. Scarlett
Johansson's "Complicit" perfume ad for Ivanka Trump inspired
Dictionary.com's word of the year, Alex Moffat's Eric Trump became a
recurring child-like guest on "Weekend Update" and Kate McKinnon's Jeff
Sessions appeared (often from underneath Trump's desk) as a sneaky-
Southern member of the administration.
Even some White House figures that have long been ousted from their
posts were vital to the show this year, including Melissa McCarthy's
Sean Spicer and Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway, who continued to
grace the show's sketches long after their departures.
See some of the most memorable sketches featuring Trump and Co. from
2017 below.
Ivanka Trump's "Complicit" Perfume Ad:
Host Scarlett Johansson's faux ad for Ivanka Trump's perfume
"Complicit" made such a mark on viewers that it inspired
Dictionary.com's word of the year for 2017.
In the SNL bit, Johansson walked through a lavish black-tie affair as a
voiceover introduced her: "She's beautiful, she's powerful, she's
complicit."
The White House employee and first daughter looked in a mirror, with
Alec Baldwin's Trump looking back at her.
"A feminist, an advocate, a champion for women, but, like, how?" the
voiceover asked, concluding with the tagline: "The fragrance for the
woman who could stop all this, but won't."
https://youtu.be/F7o4oMKbStE
Season 42 Finale: Trump Team Sings "Hallelujah":
Saturday Night Live brought together the castmembers that make up
President Donald Trump's cabinet for the season 42 finale cold open
this spring.
Alec Baldwin's Trump, seated at a piano, kicked things off by singing
the opening lines to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Scarlett Johansson's
Ivanka Trump, Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway, Beck Bennett's Mike
Pence, Cecily Strong's Melania Trump, Aidy Bryant's Sarah Huckabee
Sanders, Alex Moffatt's Eric Trump, Mikey Day's Donald Trump Jr. and
Grim Reaper/Steve Bannon joined in and sang along around the piano.
"I'm not giving up because I didn't do anything wrong, but I can't
speak for these people," Baldwin's Trump said at the close of the song.
https://youtu.be/70i8gTb3fZQ
Alec Baldwin Pulls Double Duty as Trump and Bill O'Reilly:
Alec Baldwin pulled double duty on SNL's April 8 episode, starring as
Bill O'Reilly in his very own no-spin zone, interviewing himself in a
split-screen appearance as President Donald Trump.
In a nod to the TV host's resurfaced sexual harassment allegations,
Baldwin's version of O'Reilly kicked off his Fox News show by
addressing "the scandal everyone's been talking about all week, the
shocking allegations of abuse of power that have been leveled against …
the Obama administration." After trying to avoid the subject, he
finally got to the allegations against him, and Baldwin's O'Reilly
admitted he had also been in the news as "women have come forward … and
accused me of offering them exciting opportunities here at Fox News."
One brave man, President Trump, appeared on the show to defend him once
again. Also played by Baldwin, Trump, a man "unimpeachable on all
female issues," told the host, "I actually see a lot of myself in you,
Bill."
Baldwin's O'Reilly signed off by promoting his book, called Old School.
"It's about having great morals and values, and it couldn't have come
at a better time."
https://youtu.be/7yq2CXkrZpo
"Weekend Update" Introduces the World to Eric Trump:
"Weekend Update" host Colin Jost sat down with the Trump sons, Donald
Jr. and Eric, in March to talk about the leadership at the Trump
businesses after the elder Trump took office.
Since then, Eric Trump (Alex Moffat) has become a regular staple on the
show with Donald Jr. (Mikey Day), bringing along his Cheerios, fidget
spinners and kids-size backpack.
In this episode, Eric Trump sat next to his brother, telling Jost about
his "golf car" and his sun hat, whole mimicking his brother's hand
movements and facial expressions. When he got hungry, Donald Jr.
brought out some Cheerios for his brother, but Eric had some trouble
with the Capri Sun. The brothers returned later this year to discuss
Paul Manafort and WikiLeaks.
https://youtu.be/-OBiSNOumtU
Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer as the Easter Bunny:
Melissa McCarthy returned as White House press secretary Sean Spicer in
April ... dressed in a full Easter Bunny suit.
Loudly addressing a group of children at the White House looking for
eggs, and first spoke about his flub earlier that week, claiming Adolf
Hitler never used chemical weapons on his own people and later called
concentration camps "Holocaust centers," McCarthy said, "Spicey finally
screwed up. You got me ... I clearly meant to say ‘concentration
clubs.' "
McCarthy went on to further apologize to “all the goys out there” for
the timing of the incident so close to Passover, or “what I call
'Jewish Easter,'” she added.
https://youtu.be/_RvfzFv3c6Y
Kellyanne Conway Transforms Into 'It' Clown:
During Oct. 14's Kumail Nanjiani-hosted episode, Pennywise the Clown
from It took the form of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway and appeared to
terrorize Anderson Cooper (Alex Moffat). Conway (played once again by
Kate McKinnon) appeared in a gutter: "You can call me Kellywise,
Kellywise the Dancing Clown."
Conway also taunted him when he tried to get away. "Don't go! I'll give
you a quote, a crazy quote," she said, going back into her on-
air/interview voice. "How about this? Okay, so Puerto Rico was actually
worse before Hurricane Maria and the hurricane actually did blow some
things back together." (President Donald Trump had lashed out at
hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico days before, insisting in tweets that
the federal government can't keep sending help "forever" and suggesting
the U.S. territory was to blame for its financial struggles.)
McKinnon even reprised her role as Hillary Clinton to further terrorize
Cooper, encouraging him to join her in the sewer so she can give him a
copy of her book.
https://youtu.be/Hlt3rA-oDao
Kate McKinnon's Jeff Sessions Is Forrest Gump:
SNL's March 4 episode opened with a parody of Forrest Gump, with Kate
McKinnon's Attorney General Jeff Sessions standing in for Tom Hanks'
titular character.
"My name's Jeff, Jeff Sessions," McKinnon told Leslie Jones while
sitting on a bus bench. "I'm the attorney general of the whole United
States."
"I always say life is like a box of chocolates," said the Sessions
character. But when he added, "Sure are a lot of brown ones in
there..." Jones immediately left.
Later, Beck Bennett's shirtless Vladimir Putin made an appearance.
"This meeting never happened," he told McKinnon's Sessions. Sessions
assured him: "I wasn't going to remember it anyway."
Octavia Spencer, who hosted that night, also made an appearance as her
character from The Help, and offered Sessions a pie that may have
looked like chocolate, but was something far worse.
https://youtu.be/8ZM3jvlvgVw
Trump Picks Top Adviser in Reality TV-Style Elimination Ceremony:
Celebrating Trump's first 100 days in office, Alec Baldwin appeared as
Trump in April with Beck Bennett's Vice President Mike Pence, while he
called for his advisers: Steve Bannon (in the form of the Grim Reaper)
and his "little kush ball,” Jared Kushner, played by cool guy Jimmy
Fallon entering to "You're Unbelievable."
In a spoof of reality show elimination ceremonies like America's Next
Top Model or Trump's former NBC show The Apprentice, Baldwin first
acknowledged "the drama in the house" before kicking one of his
advisers out of the oval office to “join Kellyanne Conway in the
basement.”
He then announced Kushner as the big winner by presenting a glamour
shot of Fallon, while Bannon’s skeletal form was taken "back to hell."
https://youtu.be/CgNgkwTusM4
Trump's Thoughts on Harvey Weinstein:Alec Baldwin (as President Trump)
started off the Nov. 4 episode at Paul Manafort's (Alex Moffat)
apartment for a memorable cold open that referenced timely
investigations as well as new claims against film mogul Harvey
Weinstein.
"You're so so screwed, it's a shame you're going to prison, because I
was about to give you a huuuuge tax break," Baldwin's Trump told the
fake Manafort, referring to news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's
investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election resulted
in indictments for Trump's former campaign chairman. Baldwin, as Trump,
joked that Manafort would need a shiv in prison "because after the
stuff I've said about certain ethnic groups, they're really gonna go to
town on you in prison."
Trump insisted on showering with him "to make sure you weren’t wearing
a wire."
"Mr. President, I would never do that with you," Manafort said, to
which Trump replied, "That's what she said. ... Speaking of which, what
an idiot that Harvey Weinstein is. He could have gotten away with all
of it if only he'd gotten himself elected president."
https://youtu.be/spkfIpPmPgs
"Melania Moments":
In a several short bits that ran throughout the year, Cecily Strong
starred as First Lady Melania Trump in "Melania Moments," an ongoing
series that echoed Jack Handy's "Deep Thoughts" of yesteryear.
In the Beck Bennett-narrated sketches, Melania (Strong) looks out her
Trump Tower and wondered: "What happens to them? To the people? Once
they leave Fifth Avenue? Where do they go? Do they disappear? Is there
a Sixth Avenue?"
In a later segment, she noticed that the housemaid looked like her,
wondering if they could switch places for a day. "That way, she
thought, I could go out into the world."
https://youtu.be/sComDKkYIKQ
[Ten SNL items. Lotsa Lefty hate, but Zero laughs.]
--
Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.
FPP
Dec 17, 2017, 4:04:32 PM12/17/17
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On 12/16/17 11:42 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> [Ten SNL items. Lotsa Lefty hate, but Zero laughs.]
Ha.
> [Ten SNL items. Lotsa Lefty hate, but Zero laughs.]
Ha.
Ha.
Here are the facts:
>> Decades from now, TV critics will probably still be debating where Saturday Night Live’s 42nd season ranks in the show’s pantheon. But whatever the judgement of future small-screen historians, Nielsen’s verdict is already pretty clear.
>>
>> Defying the forces of gravity that have sent audience numbers tumbling for almost everything else on TV — including NFL games — viewership for NBC’s iconic sketch comedy series surged by more than 30 percent against last season, reaching levels it hasn’t seen since the early days of the Clinton White House.
>>
>> But more stunning than the raw numbers is this: Among adults under 50, SNL’s ratings during the 2016–17 Nielsen campaign were strong enough to land it among the season’s top-ten regularly scheduled entertainment series, breathing the same rarefied air as prime-time hits like Empire and Grey’s Anatomy.
>>
>> Much like America electing a politically inexperienced, self-confessed sexual harasser president, that’s never happened before.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/saturday-night-live-ratings-this-season-are-unprecedented.html
So, to sum up... suck it. Suck it, HARD, snowflake!
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"I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and
everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!"
-2017
"WAR IS PEACE." "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY." "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!" -1984
Eric Arthur Blair
trotsky
Dec 17, 2017, 4:11:12 PM12/17/17
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lost the debate I believe.
FPP
Dec 17, 2017, 4:19:37 PM12/17/17
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