The first two episodes of Season 44 of SNL opened with extended sketches about the Kavanaugh hearings and his eventual appointment to the Supreme Court, but a familiar face was missing from SNL’s political cold opens for those two weeks. In the\u2026<\/b>
\nThe first two episodes of Season 44 of SNL opened with extended sketches about the Kavanaugh hearings and his eventual appointment to the Supreme Court, but a familiar face was missing from SNL’s political cold opens for those two weeks. In the season’s third episode, however, Alec Baldwin returned to bring the meeting of Donald Trump and Kanye West to SNL.
The episode’s cold open may have Alec Baldwin’s Trump, a role so infamous that he told The Hollywood Reporter that since he started playing the role «black people love me. They love me. Everywhere I go, black people go crazy. I think it’s because they’re most afraid of Trump,» While the episode marked the return of the show’s most famous political impression of the past few years, the show seemed more interested in poking fun at Kanye West, who was the show’s musical guest only a few weeks prior. The show poked fun at Kanye through cast member Chris Redd’s impression of him, and tackled West’s criticism of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Kanye’s iPhone Passcode, and Kanye’s enthusiasm for showing Donald Trump picture of planes. While the specter of Donald Trump hangs over all of the show’s political content, every episode of Season 44 of SNL so far has featured at least one segment centered around Kanye West.
SNL ‘s Season of Kanye began in the show’s first episode of the season, where he performed his hit song «I Love It» while wearing a water bottle, then delivered an extended pro-Trump rant after the show went off the air. The following week, cast member Pete Davidson addressed Kanye West directly in response to West’s post- SNL rant. While the Seth Meyers-episode didn’t continue the latest SNL-Kanye beef, the show did take three different opprotunities to poke fun at West. After the opening sketch, host Seth Meyers used his monologue to deliver an anecdote about how he’ll never be surprised by Kanye West ever again after working on a sketch in which West couldn’t stop interrupting awards speeches two years before he infamously interrupted Taylor Swift at the VMA’s. Later, during Weekend Update, Weekend Update brought back the segment «Really?!?» from Seth Meyers’ tenure at the Weekend Update desk to discuss the meeting between Donald Trump and Kanye.
While the show’s usual mockery of Trump may have taken a backseat during Baldwin’s return to take shows at Kanye, Jim Brown, and even Alec Baldwin himself for his remarks to The Hollywood Reporter, it’s almost guaranteed that the show will bring back Baldwin as Trump in the near future to mock something Trump that isn’t related to Kanye. While the sketch wasn’t entirely Trump-centric, the show did get a few barbs in, including having Trump tell Kanye «We have a lot more in common than people know. We are both geniuses, we\u2019re both married to beautiful women and we\u2019ve both definitely been recorded saying the \u2018N-word.» Baldwin’s return to SNL wasn’t a surprise, but fans of the show’s take on politics are likely happy to see the most famous impression of Donald Trump in the world return to television.<\/p>\n

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