Jon Lovitz returns to SNL as Alan Dershowitz in impeachment trial spoof

published 26 January 2020

Saturday Night Live is back on NBC after its winter hiatus, and the cast was joined by an old friend.

Jon Lovitz returned for Saturday evening's cold open during which he portrayed President Trump's attorney Alan Dershowitz, who was preparing to argue the president's case in the Senate impeachment trial. As Lovitz's Dershowitz began his remarks, he was suddenly transported to the show's version of the underworld, where he met with the podcast-hosting devil, played by Kate McKinnon, who appears to be a huge fan of the lawyer.

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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.