The vice presidential debate has received a lot of buzz on social media, so it was no surprise that NBC’s Saturday Night Live opened their show making fun of the debate.
What We Know:
- Saturday Night Live opened their second episode of their newest season with a cold yet humorous skit on the vice presidential debate between Sen. Kamala Harris of California (played by SNL alum Maya Rudolph) and Vice President Mike Pence (played by Beck Bennett). Two-time Emmy winning actress Kate McKinnon played the debate’s moderator Susan Page of USA Today and portrayed her as a full moderator who failed to hide her animosity for President Donald Trump.
- In one part of the skit, Page asks Pence about the conditions of Trump since he had COVID and Pence thanks her for her concerns, in which Page cuts in saying, “Oh I wasn’t asking out of sympathy, Mike, I was asking with a simmering rage for his incompetence and a sadistic hope that he was not well.”
- Rudolph, who earned an Emmy award in September for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for the role of Harris, was applauded during the show when she responded to Pence continuously interrupting her by saying, “Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking,” which Harris did actually say during the debate.
- The highlight of the skit was when they brought up the fly that landed on Pence’s head, which received a lot of buzz on social media. A lot of people claimed the fly was planned. In the skit, the fly was portrayed as Biden (played by actor Jim Carrey) who went through a teleportation machine to teleport to the debate but accidentally as a fly. This is a parody of Jeff Goldblum’s 1986 thriller The Fly.
- And even though there was one fly, the skit added another one that was portrayed as Herman Cain, who caught and died from COVID-19 after attending Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa.
The Biden campaign also took advantage of the fly humor and started selling Biden fly swatters for $10 but are currently sold out.
