Cast members imitated Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in a sketch on “Saturday Night Live” that imagined what it would be like if Cruz turned into Satan.
The sketch drew on a remark from former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) who said that Cruz was “Lucifer in the flesh.” Cruz later ended his bid for the White House after Trump triumphed in the Indiana primary.
“SNL” brought back a segment, The Church Lady, who introduced Cruz as “Satan.” Cast member Taran Killam as Cruz called the nicknames “hilarious.”
He later again appeared in the segment as Satan himself alongside a pretend Trump.
“I am no longer Ted Cruz,” he said, arguing that he was the “Lord of shadows.”
“You sure you aren’t Lord of the weak chins?” Darrell Hammond as Trump asked.
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Comparing Donald Trump to Satan is a good way to get sued for slander…
By the devil…
Mainstreaming the Trump Nazi is the devil’s work…
is there a better example of old SNL vs new SNL? Carvey just sits there and does his thing, and it’s implicitly funny. The Cruz guy screams because screaming is evidently funny.
i thought this cold open could have been a lot better.
The skit had the potential to be really funny. It so wasn’t, and reminded me once again why I stopped watching so very many decades ago. The fact I just typed “decades” and not “years” or “episodes” is itself part of the problem.
For as long as there has been an SNL, there’s been someone claiming they don’t watch it anymore and “it’s not as funny as it used to be.”