“Saturday Night Live” poked fun at both presidential candidates, showing what it might be like if former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were to compete on a game of “Family Feud” ahead of the election.
After Trump closed the door on a possible second debate with Harris, the NBC sketch-comedy spoofed the two having a debate in the form of the beloved gameshow, with Kenan Thompson playing host Steve Harvey in the show’s cold open.
“I am Steve Harvey and I have spent the past 20 years hosting every show on TV as my alibi for them Diddy parties,” Thompson’s Harvey says in the sketch. “Now tonight, we got two political rivals.”
The two candidates join the game show host at the podium where Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, says, “I’m telling you, Steve, she’s going to be horrible at this game. She’s a very low IQ person. The whole world is laughing at her because they don’t respect her like they respected me.”
Harris, played by Maya Rudolph, then accuses Trump of being easily manipulated through flattery.
“You look handsome tonight,” Rudolph says, to which Johnson replies, “I love her. Isn’t she great? She’s got my vote.”
Thompson then asks the candidates to name something they keep in the glove compartment of a car, prompting Rudolph to buzz in and go on a spiel, the show poking fun at how her campaign repetitively mentions how she was raised in a middle-class family by her mother.
As Rudolph rambles on, Thompson presses her on the question.
“Oh, a Glock, Steve. A big ol’ Glock,” she replies referencing Harris mentioning in an interview last week that she owns a Glock.
The question was then flipped to the Democrats’ side, which included Harris’ running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), played by Jim Gaffigan, President Joe Biden, played by Dana Carvey and Doug Emhoff, played by Andy Samberg.
Both Gaffigan and Carvey’s answers don’t make it up on the board, switching it over to the Republicans, which included JD Vance, played by Bowen Yang, Donald Trump Jr., played by Mikey Day, and a notably missing Melania Trump.
However, both Day and Yang say they were told not to speak, putting Johnson as Trump back in the spotlight to complain that the question was “unfair” because he has never ridden in the front seat of a car.
Johnson then goes on a rant about immigrants and China, to which Thompson replies: “Show me dementia,” which does not turn up a result.
“Saturday Night Live,” now in its 50th season, has opened the show each week with jokes about the upcoming presidential election.
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