'SNL' reacts to the election

I promised a special election edition of highlights of last night's Saturday Night Live and the episode delivered, beginning with SNL for Trump Cold Open.

The cast of Saturday Night Live shares their remarks on the result of the 2024 presidential election.

This is a joke, but the cast is displaying the same kind of worry that Jimmy Kimmel exhibited in 'You're Not Alone' and 'Now What?' Closer looks at Trump's re-election from Colbert, Meyers, 'The Daily Show,' and Kimmel. I just hope this doesn't qualify as "obeying in advance." That would be a bad sign.

Weekend Update: Trump Wins 2024 Election, Becomes First Felon Elected President tackled the orange elephant in the room head on.

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Trump promising a "Golden Age of America" in his presidential victory speech.

I have two reactions to the "Golden Age of America" remark. First, as Colin Jost mentioned, it refers to the Golden hour just before sunset, which is the joke. Second, convicted criminal Donald Trump has long had a very bad case of "L'État, c'est moi." As far as he's concerned, he is the country.

Science and animals were the subjects of the next segment, Weekend Update: 43 Monkeys Escape Research Facility, Moo Deng's New Rival.

Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Starbucks releasing their "Merrier Together" holiday cups.

Every time I hear "40 monkeys" (actually 43), I think of 12 Monkeys, which makes this both on topic for collapse and decline and, along with the news about Diddy and the simultaneous release of Gladiator 2 and Wicked, qualified this post as the Sunday entertainment feature.

Follow over the jump for more highlights of last night's show.

You may not expect it, but there's an election joke in Weekend Update: Woman Who Can't Find Something in Her Purse on How To Be an Active Listener.

Woman Who Can't Find Something in Her Purse (Ego Nwodim) stops by Weekend Update to share her tips on how to be an active listener.

There would have to have been more than 150,000 absent-minded voters in Pennsylvania to make a difference in the Presidential contest, but about 38,000 votes for Bob Casey would have kept him in the U.S. Senate, so don't forget to return your mail-in ballots!

Weekend Update concluded with Michael Che's Neighbor Willie on the 2024 Election Outcome.

Michael Che's neighbor Willie (Kenan Thompson) stops by Weekend Update to discuss the results of the 2024 presidential election.

I can think of two reasons Willie can make the rest of us feel better. First, people can keep their spirits up under worse circumstances than most of us are experiencing now — and it will get worse after Noon on January 20, 2025 — and, second, laughter always makes me feel better.

Speaking of laughter making me feel better about the election, Bill Burr Stand-up Monologue poked fun at both sides in a way that didn't piss me off at him.

Host Bill Burr does stand-up about the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, catching the flu and Shaquille O'Neal's credibility.

Maybe Trump did learn something useful from "working" at McDonald's. We should be so lucky.

I close with a commercial parody, Buffalo Wild Wings.

A Buffalo Wild Wings commercial goes off the rails.

As I wrote most recently last week, "This clip serves as yet another demonstration of the commercial parodies being one of the best parts of SNL. When they're on, they're on, and this one was ON!"

That concludes today's highlights post. Stay tuned for a drum corps Veterans Day.