Donald Trump might have fallen a little flat on Saturday Night Live, but Larry David killed in the cold open, an SNL re-enactment of Friday's Democratic presidential forum in South Carolina. "What the hell is this tonight?" David, portraying Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), asked Cecily Strong, doing a dead-on Rachel Maddow. "Why are we even doing this?"
The whole premise of a forum, not a debate, wasn't the only thing to get skewered. "Okay, Hillary, let's dive into some tough questions — but oh, don't worry: Not actually tough, just MSNBC tough," Strong's Maddow told Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton, who went on to pander to Southerners and New Yorkers with equally transparent aplomb. MSNBC also got some ribbing for tight close-ups of black audience members at the forum. But the candidate who got hit the hardest was Martin O'Malley ("We'll get to the fun [candidates] in a sec, but first we have to eat our vegetables," Strong said, introducing O'Malley, a plastic Taran Killam). The highlight, of course, was David's Sanders, who grumpily made a plea for your "vacuum cleaner pennies," explained why he ditches his car and kayaks across rivers, and does a little pandering of his own. Watch below. Peter Weber
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