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SNL Cold Open: Baldwin Returns For A Queen Finale

SNL Cold Open: Baldwin Returns For A Queen Finale

Summer is almost here, which means the end of Saturday Night Live’s regular season. For a finale, Alec Baldwin returns in the SNL cold open to bid us farewell with a rousing, lunatic version of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now,” as he looks forward to “doing the things I never get to do” — playing golf (cue laughter) and visiting friends in prison.

Joined by the rest of the cast’s White House regulars in this ominous musicale, the president warns that he’s “on cruise control to a second term.” But before the end, Robert Mueller (Robert DeNiro) steps in with “something important to tell America,” but Baldwin shouts him down: “No collusion! No obstruction!”

Wince and laugh.

#EndorseThis: Robert DeNiro Speaks Freely About ‘Unrepentant’ Liar Trump

#EndorseThis: Robert DeNiro Speaks Freely About ‘Unrepentant’ Liar Trump

If you missed Samantha Bee’s second Not The White House Correspondents Dinner, then you probably didn’t catch Robert DeNiro’s Trump-bashing stand-up routine. Playing to the First Amendment theme of the evening, the great actor (and Robert Mueller impersonator) didn’t hold back.

“I just gotta say, I fuckin’ love fake news,” he began. “If I get a bad review, fake news! Some nosey reporter finds out I never finished high school, fake news!…All that fake news, turns out, it’s real news. Or as we in this room call it, news.”

Free speech, said DeNiro bluntly, includes the president’s right to be “a relentless and unrepentant lying scumbag, the right of his supporters to not give a shit — and our right to do something about it.”

Nor did he mince words about what he has in mind. His inner comic emerges whenever DeNiro talks about Trump.

Click for laughs.

Saturday Night Live Brings Us The REAL Mueller Report

Saturday Night Live Brings Us The REAL Mueller Report

“Russia, if you’re watching, go to bed. Daddy won!”

But on the new Saturday Night Live cold open, Donald Trump’s self-serving summary of the Mueller Report is undermined by the author himself (the mighty Robert DeNiro) — who explains what the hundreds of pages he filed with the Justice Department really mean, after two years of dogged investigation.

Standing between America and those reams of damning facts is Attorney General Bill Barr (Aidy Bryant), with the relentlessly sunny damage control — did someone say coverup? — that Trump (Alec Baldwin, of course) hired him to provide. The bat-like Rudy Giuliani (Kate McKinnon) emerges from his crypt to gloat a little too.

Before it’s over the grim Mueller offers this bracing postscript: “P.S. Can’t wait to see what the Southern District of New York has in store for Trump.”

Neither can America. Click and laugh.

Mueller Bids Farewell To Sessions In SNL Cold Open

Mueller Bids Farewell To Sessions In SNL Cold Open

In the opening scene of Saturday Night Live’s cold open, Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant) finds Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) hiding in his desk at the Justice Department.

“This is Matthew Whitaker’s office now, Jeff,” she reminds him.

“Yeah, I know,” he replies. “I don’t understand how Mr. Trump could replace me with Matt Whitaker. He’s just a shady businessman with no experience who’s blindly loyal to Donald Trump. OK, hearing it out loud, that makes sense.”

Poor Sessions then ruminates on his “good times” in service to Trump, greeting a parade of buffoonish figures parading through his office as he packs up — iMike Pence (Beck Bennett), Donald Jr. (Mikey Day) and Eric Trump (Alex Moffat) — before yodeling Adele’s heartbreak anthem, Someone Like You.

But he is interrupted by the arrival of a final interlocutor when Robert Mueller (Robert DeNiro) steps in with a few words of appreciation, and a special gift.

Click and laugh.