<em>Saturday Night Live</em> Whiffs the Kavanaugh Confirmation
After one of the most bruising, divisive, emotional weeks in American political history, the most subversive thing on Saturday Night Live this weekend was Mitch McConnell’s chin. Attached to the neck of the cast member Beck Bennett, the chin sidled into shot with an apparent life of its own, replete with folds and dimples and what looked like messages in ancient Sumerian. As Bennett emulated McConnell’s defiant, befuddled liplessness, the chin was so dazzlingly lifelike that you barely noticed what the character was saying.
Which was kind of the point? To be fair to , it had a matter of hours after Brett by the Senate as an associate justice on the Supreme Court to respond to the news (even if the confirmation seemed inevitable by Friday). And , even in 2018, aren’t exactly a subject any mainstream comedy series wants to dive too deeply into. So opted for the safest sketch imaginable: a cold open imagining feverish Republican festivities happening in a post-game locker room, complete with brewskies (Miller High Life, to celebrate “the Natty Light of judges”), Montell Jordan, and a parade of players providing pitch-perfect, uncannily costumed, totally anodyne imitations of people in power.
