‘SNL’ sketch brings together Democrats and Republicans for ‘Family Feud’

() – With less than a month until the presidential election, “Saturday Night Live” pits Democrats against Republicans in a “Family Feud” sketch in its latest episode.

Decidedly tamer than some of its politically-themed sketches and jokes in recent weeks, the game show provided a great platform to showcase the “SNL” electoral cast: Maya Rudolph as Vice President Kamala Harris, Andy Samberg as the husband of Harris, Doug Emhoff, Jim Gaffigan as Harris’ running mate Governor Tim Walz, Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden, James Austin Johnson as former President Donald Trump, Bowen Yang as Senator J.D. Vance and Mikey Day as Donald Trump Jr.

Kenan Thompson’s Steve Harvey led the game and asked participants to name the objects in the glove compartment. It didn’t take long for Rudolph’s Harris and Samberg’s Emhoff to get the first two answers on the board: “gun” and “second gun,” respectively.

Arguably the funniest response was from Gaffigan, who responded like Walz: “Warm hands, Runza napkins, and I have to have Tums in case I eat something spicy like tomato.”

Johnson’s Trump also drew laughter from the audience, joking at one point: “I say a lot of different things, but they all come together beautifully, like an episode of ‘Seinfeld.'”

The sketch marked “SNL’s” third consecutive start dedicated to politics, with a somewhat lesser performance in terms of humor. But “SNL” boss Lorne Michaels had been open about the show’s political plans before the start of the season, which is now three episodes in.
“You can’t preach to the audience, as is most of politics today, people preaching to the audience. Our thing is like, ‘Yeah, there are idiots on both sides,'” Michaels said. last month . “It has to be comedy. “We are, first and foremost, a comedy show.”

Ariana Grande returned as host of Saturday’s new episode, with musical guest Stevie Nicks.