Hillary Clinton Plays a Bartender on Saturday Night Live’s Season Premiere

Everyone went insane for Hillary Clinton’s surprise appearance on last night’s Season 41 premiere of Saturday Night Live with host and musical guest Miley Cyrus.

Hillary Clinton plays Val, a Trump-imitating bartender, on SNL. Clinton dismisses Trump, puts on a throaty voice and says: “Uh, you’re all losers”.

“It could have been sooner”, pressed fake-Clinton, to which the real Clinton responded, “Fair point”.

“Well, I needed to blow off a few steam”, McKinnon says. The Democratic presidential candidate was cast as “Val”, a friendly bartender lending a sympathetic ear to Kate McKinnon’s “Hillary Clinton”.

Check out highlights from the episode below, including Clinton’s wonderful impersonation of Donald Trump (which might have been even better than Taran Killam’s).

But perhaps the peak of all this was Fey’s sermon from the Weekend Update pulpit demanding atonement from those who sexistly conflated Clinton’s get-shit-done demeanor with bitchiness.

“Why won’t people just let me lead?”

McKinnon’s Clinton character says that Trump believes he will win all the primaries. It acknowledges a mistake (in a way that’s far more believable and effective than your usual my major failing is that I sometimes work too hard for America faux-self-effacement).

It was one of several references to Clinton’s efforts to appeal to younger voters and to counter her public image as removed and emotionally uninspiring.

Clinton’s appearance recalled the visit Sarah Palin paid to the sketch show during her 2008 vice presidential campaign, when she ran as John McCain’s running mate. McKinnon, with her wacky delivery, energized a spoof about millennials in the workplace who are “trying to find the success and love they’re entitled to”.

Clinton opposed same-sex marriage throughout her time as a US senator, although she opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment that would have banned it throughout the country. “I want to be the one to take him down”.

Miley Cyrus looked adorable in a retro poodle skirt, but when she opened her mouth we quickly found she was NOT a typical 1950s girl (credit: Dana Edelson/NBC).