Saturday Night Live, SNL, spoofs Michael Cohen’s congressional hearing with Ben Stiller & Kenan Thompson drawing top jokes.
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Ben Stiller attends the 71st Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards.
When NBC’s Saturday Night Live tapped Ben Stiller to play Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, at Cohen’s congressional hearing, the variety show left no joke unturned.
With Kenan Thompson playing representative Elijah Cummings at the hearing, SNL’s audience took to laughter in the humorous cold open.
First, here’s a primer on what happened in the real-life congressional hearing with Cohen:
Cohen uttered phrases about Trump like, “he’s a racist, he’s a conman, he’s a cheat,” and alleged that Trump knew about the WikiLeaks dump ahead of time. As reports noted, the real congressional hearing featuring Cohen himself was television enough.
But, leave it SNL to take things a step further with spoofs of the real thing:
1. Thompson’s character as Cummings asks the audience in the congressional hearing to stay professional and to not “ooh and ah” if they heard something outrageous.
