Where <em>Saturday Night Live</em> Loses Its Political Power
The show feels less urgent whenever it presents members of the Trump administration as brainless simpletons.
It’s perfectly understandable why avoided going to either of its two biggest stars for the political cold open of its last episode. The performances of Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump and Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer have helped bring the show back into the zeitgeist after several years of struggling for relevance. But neither is part of the main cast, and it’s easy to have too much of a good thing: McCarthy’s work as Spicer was a barnstorming success the first
