Bernie Sanders Draws Big Laughs on ‘Saturday Night Live’

At that, Sanders appeared, saying he was sick of the top 1 percent getting all of the advantages, echoing his campaign’s call for the super-rich not to get so many benefits in society. But it wasn’t in the way that people expected: Sanders wasn’t in the cold open, nor was he in Bern Your Enthusiasm, the spoof of the HBO series in which David plays a Sanders who very much typifies the protagonist of his hit show, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Saturday Night Live fans were feelin’ the Bern this weekend as Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen.

Sanders strayed into one area he has been somewhat less comfortable exploring – the place of his Jewish identity in American society – when he recalled that his family’s name had once been “Sandersowsky, but we’re going to change it when we get to America so it doesn’t sound so Jewish”. “We need your vacuum pennies”, the real Sanders joked in a link leading to his official campaign website. “I am running for president”, he yelps neurotically. “Just pop it back in”, she implores him. “Are you nuts”, he says.

“Go to a hospital”. “I’m from Brooklyn, we don’t pop in Brooklyn!” Naturally, the actor thinks this is pretty, pretty, pretty stupid and tries to get special treatment, while Sanders shows up to deliver a political message.

Meanwhile, Saturday night’s set-piece was basically an inversion of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, with Bernie Sanders – David, of course – as a sour candidate who refuses to shake hands, or fix a voter’s dislocated shoulder, who then learns he loses the New Hampshire primary by a couple of votes.

Over the last few months, the genius that created Seinfeld has crafted a brand new, equally iconic persona by lampooning presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with pitch ideal authenticity.