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

Sanders plays Bernie Sanderswitsky (“We’re going to change it to sound less Jewish”, he quips) a man forever battling against the one percent.

Mediaite said many fans of Sanders, David, and political sketches in general may have been caught off guard by the unusual bit.

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!” When David asked how the campaign season was coming along, Sanders joked, “It’s pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good”.

Also during the program, Sanders directed a “Bern Your Enthusiasm” skit, based on David’s popular show “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. “Enough is enough. We need to unite and work together if we’re going to get through this”. “Shake my hand!” says the woman.

She asks Sanders to reset her dislocated shoulder by popping it back in.

As Sanders and his staff later watched a broadcast of the caucus results, both women were among those who had joined Clinton at her victory celebration.

In true Larry David fashion, the actor becomes visibly disgusted when cast member Leslie Jones reaches out to shake his hand after coughing into hers and stirs a lot of drama.

“No! Why else would she go out with me”. Bernie Sanders took to the SNL stage for a brief (but hilarious) cameo. In October, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared as a bartender named Val during a sketch with Kate McKinnon as Clinton. His second appearance might have been even sharper, but he was overshadowed by that night’s host – one Donald Trump. Most, including myself, expected to see him in the cold open, likely yelling out in his Brooklyn accent the iconic words, “Live from NY it’s Saturday night!”.

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.