Joe Biden has not yet been sworn in and already has a successor – on “Saturday Night Live”.
In the last show of the year, the late night comedy show revealed cast member Alex Moffat as the newly elected president of “SNL” – hours after comedian Jim Carrey announced on Twitter that he was retiring from his short term with Biden.
“Although my term was only to be 6 weeks, I was thrilled to be elected president of SNL … the highest calling of comedy,” Carrey wrote on Twitter earlier Saturday. “I’d love to move on, knowing that Biden was the winner, because I caught that … But I’m just one of a long line of proud, SNL Bidens fighters!”
In Saturday’s cold opening, Moffat threw himself on stage with a cane while wearing an orthopedic boot – just like the one in which real-life Biden began to wear after suffering a hairline fracture in one of his legs. , apparently playing with his dog.
Moffat’s Biden then dropped the cane and made a Willy Wonka-style jump.
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“You look different,” Beck Bennett told Mike Pence as vice president for Biden.
“I’m like Colonel Sanders, every time you see me I’m a different guy,” Moffat said. “There’s a good chance this time next year I’ll be Mario Lopez.”
Elected Vice President Kamala Harris, played by Maya Rudolph, said she insisted that Biden be immunized against the coronavirus as soon as possible because she was worried about him.
“Especially since you’re already in a cast on day minus-40 in office,” she said.
Moffat’s Biden reminded Americans that they were about to “have a real leader again,” with “the most diverse Cabinet in American political history.”
Harris then assured that he would never make Biden specify what he meant by “various.”
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“This is my Christmas present for you, America,” she added.
“Or if you celebrate Kwanzaa,” Moffat suggested, referring to the African-American holiday that begins next weekend.
“No, we’ll go,” Rudolph said, urging him to leave the stage.
The cold opening focused on Bennett’s Pence, which introduced the coronavirus vaccine to the room. “I’m sure all Americans are thrilled to see me, the guy who let COVID spread everywhere, getting one of the first vaccines,” Bennett said.
The real vice president received a live COVID-19 vaccination on TV on Friday morning.
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Moffat played a number of other news producers, including Eric Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and US Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, whom he met in the city earlier this month.
Other imitators of Biden included Kevin Nealon, Jason Sudeikis, Woody Harrelson and John Mulaney.