Saturday Night Live took several shots at the January 6th committee’s season finale. The overstuffed TV production has paraded itself as a serious hearing but they’re opted to have a Hollywood producer lay the frame work. You know, because it’s ‘serious’. So there isn’t any wonder why SNL would mock hearing members but man, did they nail a few of the key charactors.
Just try to watch how they portrayed Adam Schiff and not laugh.
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS), played by veteran cast member Kenan Thompson, held hands with his “best friend,” committee co-chair Liz Cheney (R-WY), played by Heidi Gardner, who expressed regret over her decision to commit her political career to fight the former president: “Whether you’re a Republican who’s not watching or a Democrat who’s nodding so hard your head is falling off, one person is responsible for this insurrection, Donald Trump, and one person will suffer the consequences, me.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), played by Andrew Dismukes, revealed that he stole one of Thompson’s cupcakes, which the committee chairman had promised to everyone as a treat at the end, before directing viewers to watch footage of Pelosi and Schumer on the phone with Pence.
A frazzled and furious Pelosi, played by Chloe Fineman, could be seen on the phone with the outgoing vice president while sitting next to a distracted Schumer, played by Sarah Sherman. As Pelosi asked when and how they’d be able to leave their secure location and return to the Capitol to certify President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, Schumer attempted to complete a DoorDash food delivery order.
“If Trump comes, I’m gonna punch him out, and then I’m going to jail,” Fineman’s Pelosi warned, mimicking the real words the House speaker said during the aired segment, to which Sherman’s Schumer responded: “Let me tell you, if Trump comes, I’m gonna let him punch me in the face. I’ll go to the hospital. Free soup.”
“Hello, DoorDash? It’s Chuck Schumer,” Sherman later said as the Senate Democratic leader. “Yes, we still haven’t received our lunch order. And I did change our drop-off location due to some unfortunate treason, but it should have arrived by now.”
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Closing statements of the January 6th committee pic.twitter.com/uIR4kiiWdL
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) October 16, 2022
While we have all assumed that this was the season finale of the committee’s daytime drama, just know that it might not be. I remember two months ago when they ‘wrapped things up’ only to continue on for several more rounds after polls had shown that the show wasn’t getting any attention from voters.