Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon break character, as SNL mocks the media’s obsession with Hillary Clinton’s emails
After thoroughly mocking Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton throughout the 2016 presidential campaign (OK, mostly Trump), Saturday Night Live had one more pre-election target: The media.
Perhaps sensing a degree of a false balance in the coverage of the 2016 campaign, SNL focused its aim in Saturday’s final pre-election show on the media’s obsession with Clinton’s email scandal (scroll down for the full clip).
With Cecily Strong as CNN’s Erin Burnett, the cold open seemed to suggest that journalists had blown recent revelations—potentially related to the investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server—out of proportion compared to other issues.
Such as Alec Baldwin’s Trump appearing to, ahem, collude with FBI agents…
Wait a sec… #SNL pic.twitter.com/asUwYAj7jl
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) November 6, 2016
…as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin…
“What is even a Putin?” #SNL pic.twitter.com/ntmGm1Xxur
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) November 6, 2016
…and also members of the Ku Klux Klan.
💋💋💋 #SNL pic.twitter.com/BbsiiT9bze
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) November 6, 2016
“Can we talk about how he kissed the KKK?” Kate McKinnon, playing Clinton, asks exasperately.
“Yeah, I wish we could, but we’re almost out of time, so let’s get back to your emails,” Strong replies.
Stick around to watch the full clip to see Baldwin and McKinnon, tired of the “mean” nature of the 2016 campaign, break character to leave the studio and run through Times Square hugging (sometimes perplexed) pedestrians of all political stripes.
“We can’t tell you who to vote for, but on Tuesday we all get a chance to choose what kind of country we want to live in,” McKinnon says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxH6bKNPBIA
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