SNL's Jeff Sessions has a heart-to-heart with his opossum papa about Roy Moore

Saturday Night Live got right down to business this week with a cold open skewering Republican Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore, who has been accused of sexual misconduct toward girls as young as 14 and hasn't exactly denied dating teenagers as an adult, commenting Friday that he doesn't "remember dating any girl without the permission of her mother."

The skit featured Mikey Day as Moore having a chat with Beck Bennett's Vice President Mike Pence, who urges Moore to suspend his campaign. "We can't take chances," Pence muses, and "it's hard to convince people you're not into young girls when you dress like Woody from Toy Story."

After Pence leaves Moore to think it over, Kate McKinnon's Jeff Sessions crawls out of a nearby cabinet to offer some counsel of his own. "I'm usually the creepiest one in the room," Sessions notes, "but I look at you, and I'm like, 'Oh my god.'" Also in the cabinet is Sessions' taxidermied opossum papa, with whom he shares an almost-thoughtful heart-to-heart. Watch the full skit below. Bonnie Kristian

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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.