Elaine Benes challenged Larry David's Bernie Sanders in this Brooklyn debate spoof

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes
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During Saturday Night Live's cold open, the show came off looking a little bit more like Seinfeld. Kate McKinnon and Seinfeld co-creator Larry David faced off in a spoof of Thursday's Democratic debate as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, but one famous fictional New Yorker stole the show with her questions.

Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus reprise her role as Elaine Benes, who is not pleased with Sanders' "yadda yaddas." Julie Kliegman

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Julie Kliegman
Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.