David, 68, had first parodied Sanders on SNL last October

David’s Sanders is likely the best political impression since Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin-impressions that both work because of physical resemblance and the spot-on focus on the “quirky” personality tics of both Palin and Sanders.

“I’m from Brooklyn. We don’t pop in Brooklyn”, David quipped. David’s, spooked by a squall, balks at the captain’s order to save “women and children first”, demanding to check the “pubes” on a child boarding a life raft. Realizing that there aren’t enough lifeboats for everyone, Sanders rants, “I am so sick of the 1 percent getting this preferential treatment, enough is enough”.

David pulled out all the stops, poking fun at the upcoming election with the help of Democratic presidential hopeful, Bernie Sanders.

Fans of David’s HBO show will get a particular kick out of “Bern Your Enthusiasm”.

The sketch then offers an explanation for why Sanders came a close second to fellow Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, losing the Iowa caucus vote by less than 1 percent.

The sketch had David once again impersonating Sanders as voters cussed him out for refusing to shake a woman’s hand after she coughed on it and balking at helping a auto crash victim. “Just pop it back in”, she implores him. (“We’re going to change it when we get to America so it doesn’t sound so Jewish”, Sanders joked.) David’s character ribbed Sanders about his distinctive pronunciation of “huge” – “Huge with a Y?”

In his first “SNL” hosting appearance, David certainly played to character, a familiar one – dyspeptic, self-lacerating, and disinclined to hyperbole.

Asked by David about his lead in New Hampshire, Sanders replies with his version of the famous Curb Your Enthusiasm line: “It’s pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good”.