Jim Carrey Brought Out His Joe Biden On The Season Premiere Of “Saturday Night Live”

After finishing up last season with those acid-trip at-home episodes, Saturday Night Live was back in the studio for its 46th season and performed for an audience made up of a handful of first responders in masks who were probably thinking, “Err, should I be taking a risk for this!?” For the cold open, Alec Baldwin slapped another fire hazard on his head to squint and pout as Donald Trump, Maya Rudolph was back as Kamala Harris, and Jim Carrey debuted his Joe Biden. But because the current news cycle is like a deranged roadrunner on speed, they should’ve just opened with a view of the writers’ head spinning while trying to keep up with the news.

The cold open was an awkward, slow-paced skit of the first debate between Trump and Biden, but honestly, they should’ve just shown footage of a sewage fire. That would’ve summed it up. But instead, Alec and those hairy turd brows came out as Trump with Jim Carrey doing Joe Biden, which was less Joe Biden and more Fire Marshall Bill. Maya as Mamala later took the stage and declared that America needs a “WAP––uh, woman, as president” but settled for “Hot Vice President in Charge” for now:

Chris Rock was the host, and of course, he went full political in his monologue, sending thoughts and prayers to COVID for being in Trump and he also said that the entire American political system needs a reboot, via Variety:

Rock walked out on stage in a mask but promptly removed it to deliver his monologue, which started by addressing “the elephant in the room,” that President Donald Trump is in the hospital with COVID.

“My heart goes out to COVID,” Rock said.

Commenting on the “renegotiations” he is seeing couples go through during the pandemic provided a way for him to pivot into more political discussion. “I think we need to renegotiate our relationship to the government,” he said. “Does it work? I think Joe Biden should be the last president ever. We need a whole new system, OK? … What job do you have for four years, no matter what?”

He continued, “We’ve agreed in the United States that we should not have kings, yet we have dukes and duchesses running the Senate and the Congress, making decisions for poor people. Rich people making decisions for poor people — that’s like your handsome friend giving you dating advice.”

Chris also gave a shout out to the late Chris Farley and coke:

“Everybody in this audience has been checked and all week I’ve had things going up my nose, every day I come in here,” he said. “I haven’t had so much stuff up my nose since I shared a dressing room with Chris Farley.”

The musical guest was Megan Thee Stallion who was one of the only good things about this underwhelming episode. Megan performed Savage in a Keith Haring fever dream and during her performance, she declared that we need to protect Black women and Black men and then dragged Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s Attorney General, over the Grand Jury ruling in the Breonna Taylor case, via Deadline:

This followed quotes from Malcolm X and activist Tamika Mallory, who said, “Daniel Cameron is no different than the sell-out negroes that sold our people into slavery”.

Cameron, a rising star in the Republican party who is considered a potential successor to Senator Mitch McConnell, is under fire after Grand Jury audio has revealed conflicting accounts of the raid that killed Taylor.

Kate McKinnon, who regularly played The Notorious RBG on SNL, gave a little tribute to the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

Kate McKinnon as RBG one last time. This is such a lovely way to do it. ❤️ #SNLPremiere pic.twitter.com/1tw3C3BlMV

— LC (@Knope447) October 4, 2020

And Chloe Fineman did Drew Barrymore’s talk show better than Drew Barrymore’s actual talk show:

Next week comedian Bill Burr will host (with musical guest Morgan Wallen) and the week after that Issa Rae will host (with musical guest… prepare to groan… Justin Bieber). But since every week in 2020 is shit-packed with enough news stories to last ten fucking years, my guess is that next week’s show will be nothing but a shot of the writers throwing up their hands, raising a white flag, and passing around a joint after finally giving up.

Pic: Twitter/NBC