Watch Hillary Clinton mock herself for not supporting LGBT rights sooner
One of the best sketches by far was when Hillary Clinton appeared as the bartender Val, who gave advice to the sullen, Hillary Clinton impersonator Kate McKinnon.
McKinnon has a spot-on impression of Clinton that she’s thrown around a few times already, but playing off the real Clinton as the straight woman to her antics takes it to a new level.
McKinnon’s character agrees with “Val”, saying “it took me a long time to decide that, but I am against it”.
Hillary Clinton appeared on “Saturday Night Live” on Saturday, and used it as an opportunity to mock Donald Trump and to make fun of her own reticence on issues like marriage equality and the Keystone XL pipeline. “Come next November, I Rick Santorum, will be President of the United States”, fake Santorum said while his wife looked on awkwardly.
Donald Trump (now played by Taran Killam) is secretly a Democrat; the other GOP candidates all require medicine for their collective mental illness; Bernie Sanders (according to Weekend Update) is “The Human Lorax;” and Hillary Clinton is the only person who can save America. But every single season of Saturday Night Live has just as many bad sketches as the next, but we’ve just forgotten about them because they don’t get played during clip shows.
When Val asked Clinton if she though Trump could actually win the primaries: “He must”. Think of this as an indictment on her achievements on the show, and then also her big-time movie role this summer in the “Ghostbusters” movie featuring herself and fellow cast member Kate McKinnon. The Democratic front-runner in presidential race was seen pouring drinks and giving advice to Clinton, played by McKinnon. “All anybody wants to talk about is Donald Trump”. Real Hillary Clinton introduced her and upstaged her. We’re talking Hillary today, not Miley, which is another way Clinton helped “SNL”. “That’s the first time I’ve ever heard that”, Clinton replies.
After the two Clintons exchanged their lines, they embraced one another to sing “Lean on Me” by Bill Withers before Val the bartender disappeared.