Tom Hanks joins SNL to spoof the final presidential debate

Tom Hanks joined Saturday Night Live as moderator Chris Wallace for the last presidential debate cold open sketch. "Welcome to the third and final presidential debate," he began. "Tonight, it's going to be a lot like the third Lord of the Rings movie: You don't really want to watch, but, hey, you've come this far."

Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton and Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump mostly took it from there, with McKinnon playing a private game of Bingo based on Trump's outrageous comments while flat-out refusing to address the content of campaign emails published by WikiLeaks.

As for "Trump," he went meta, celebrating his support from "the best Baldwin brother, Stephen Baldwin." Watch the full skit below. Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.