Bernie Sanders drops in on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders dropped by Saturday Night Live on the same evening as Larry David, who does a fan favorite impression of the Vermont senator.

The show, which was hosted by the Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm comedian, featured a brilliant sketch in which David played his famously disagreeable character on the presidential campaign trail.

He continued: “Disagree with him all you want but don’t believe the “unelectable” hype. Enough is enough-we need to unite and work together if we’re going to get through this”, he growls, to which David replies that sounds like socialism.

“Yeah, that’ll trick them”, David quipped, as the ship’s captain revealed they were in NY and all going to survive the maritime mishap.

Bernie then asks David if he’d like to share a cab, to which he shrugs, before adding: ‘I think we’ve talked enough’.

The best skit of the night, however, was about Sanders but didn’t physically include him. At least the actual Bernie Sanders proved to be a sport by showing up in a later sketch. “Jeb Bush passing Donald Trump”, Colin Jost said.

Sanders had a brief cameo with David in a skit about immigrating to America.

One of the episode’s highlights, without question, was a digital short titled “Bern Your Enthusiasm”.

In his first “SNL” hosting appearance, David certainly played to character, a familiar one – dyspeptic, self-lacerating, and disinclined to hyperbole. No doubt there would have been a time in the not-too-distant past when Sanders’ Jewish faith would have subjected to him anti-Semitic attacks and been an obstacle.

People wonder why we write about Saturday Night Live so much when we regularly give it pretty negative reviews.

“I am Bernie Sanderswitzky”.

And in the “Bern your Enthusiasm” segment – which revolved around Sanders’s loss to Hillary Clinton by 0.2 percentage points in Iowa, revealed here to have been the result of his offending a mere five voters – it was notable that numerous voters he offended were black, probably a reference to Sanders’s difficulties winning African-American support. He has a serious lead in New Hampshire polls.