Bernie Sanders appears on ‘Saturday Night Live’ with Larry David

For a sketch skewering the current political debate season we find ourselves in, Larry David took to Saturday Night Live to play Bernie Sanders, a fella you might have heard of over the last few months.

Sanders was nowhere to be found during David’s initial skits channeling the politician.

First up was a digital short mash-up of sorts called “Bern Your Enthusiasm”, a play on David’s erstwhile (but possible not erstwhile) HBO series.

“Sounds like socialism to me”, David rebuked, with Sanders clarifying that it’s more democratic socialism.

Ultimately, Sanders had less of a presence than other candidates who appeared on the show, notably Donald Trump. “We need to unite and work together if we’re all going to get through this”.

“I am Bernie Sanderswitzky”.

The NBC comedy show resisted the temptation to have the Vermont U.S. senator appear next to David as he was playing him, however. Sanders was on screen for about a minute.

For David, who was a writer on “Saturday Night Live” in the mid-1980s, it was his first time hosting “SNL” – and third time doing his Bernie Sanders impersonation, a role some critics have said was tailor-made for him. Never mind the fact Sanders is six years David’s senior (that’s probably just a cover story).

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Bern Your Enthusiasm – Considering how much of this was informed by the week’s events during the Iowa caucus, this was an impressive little production.

Sanders, the socialist Democratic presidential candidate, turned up in person on the show, sending himself up during a sketch seemingly based on Titanic to announce characteristically: “I am so sick of the 1% getting this preferential treatment!” But Bernie wasn’t about to go with a “cough and shake”.

Later, Sanders makes a run to the coffee shop because he refuses to drink his with the 2% milk at the campaign office and declines to help another supporter in peril.