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Saturday Night Live: Druski hosts and James Talarico cameos, but where’s the post-election comedy?

SNL booking comedian Druski post-midterms felt misbegotten in low-energy episode failing to capture historic ‘blue-nami’

Four days after the historic “blue-nami” midterms, Saturday Night Live opens at Democrats’ headquarters, where party leaders Hakeem Jeffries (Kenan Thompson) and Chuck Schumer (Sarah Sherman) celebrate, even as they vow to hold on to power in spite of the wishes of their energized base.

Their toast is interrupted by the man responsible for Republicans’ shellacking, Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson). The president, who is “now lame duck”, accepts the results, “which is scarier in a way”. But he’s also resigned to focus on the ballroom, even as he laments having to work with millennial Democrats (this leads him down a long diatribe about the show New Girl). We get quick walk ons by a defeated JD Vance (Jeremy Culhane) and extra-aggro Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost), only for Trump to get a taste of his own medicine when James “Telefreako” Talarico interupts him. Texas’s new senator-elect speaks to one of the big issues of the day: “It’s clear people want something new, they want something different. I’m talking, of course, about SNL’s cold opens. How many of these Trump freezes are they gonna do?”

James Talarico, the new senator-elect of Texas, has a message for Trump in ‘SNL’ cold open

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After this week’s major wins by the Democratic Party in the midterm elections, it’s no surprise that the cold open on “Saturday Night Live” was political in nature.

But there was one surprise guest: The new senator-elect of Texas, James Talarico.

The cold open began with a conversation between Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (Kenan Thompson) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (Sarah Sherman), the minority leaders of the House and Senate (and possible future majority leaders), respectively, as they celebrated their party’s victory, including flipping Texas blue — for which they took credit. (Schumer: “That was all me. I found the candidates, I recruited them. And as a show of respect, they begged me not to appear at their campaign events.”)

‘SNL’ recap: James Talarico makes surprise cold open appearance, Emma Stone crashes Druski’s monologue

The blue wave hit the shores of Studio 8H as “Saturday Night Live” tackled the midterm results in its first episode since the historic election.

Saturday’s show kicked off with a cold open sketch poking fun at Democratic leadership as they celebrated their party’s big wins, with Sarah Sherman’s Chuck Schumer and Kenan Thompson’s Hakeem Jeffries toasting champagne while plotting their next political moves. James Austin Johnson’s President Trump eventually joined the festivities to take credit for helping the Democrats win, with Jeremy Culhane’s JD Vance and Colin Jost’s Pete Hegseth briefly popping up too.

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