Commentary: ‘Saturday Night Live’ gets its strongest point across at Thanksgiving table
With Ferrell returning to host for the fifth time, the episode’s cold open kicked things off sluggishly with Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump. Playing on the president’s penchant for shouted news conferences in front of an idling helicopter, the sketch played off the crude Magic Marker notes he was holding during a news conference after the testimony by Ambassador Gordon Sondland. “I know him but I don’thim know him.
A Big Gulp-bearing Fred Armisen turned up as former New York Mayor and new candidate Michael Bloomberg, who touted his own chances: “I’d like to see Trump supporters come up with a conspiracy theory about a Jewish billionaire who owns his own media company,” he said. But for all the usual impressions, the most striking bit of commentary on the night was also its strangest. Imagining a politically contentious first Thanksgiving, Melissa Villaseñor joined Armisen, Rudolph and Ferrell as Native Americans welcoming Beck Bennett’s John Smith over for dinner. The bulk of the sketch consisted of Ferrell’s elder advocating for “building the wall” and lamenting to his horrified guests about not being able to call white settlers “pale faces” anymore.
In an echo of some conversations set to take place this week, Villaseñor’s Pocahontas insisted her grandfather stop listening to “that crazy old fox” while he insisted to her that was “better than that lying peacock you talk to.” The sketch coalesced into a funny look at the absurdity of U.S. anti-immigrant sentiments and political division that felt a little muddled if you thought about it long enough, which was something Ferrell acknowledged at the close.
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