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<em>SNL</em> Runs an Ad for Elizabeth Warren

Depicting a rally, the cold open landed between comedy and campaigning.
Source: Will Heath / NBC

Have you heard this one before? Elizabeth Warren holds a town hall in Iowa.

That’s it; that’s the joke.

So went the logic of ’s take on the 2020 election in its cold open this week. The show’s political sketches are always patchy, as the writing process appears to involve mashing up recent headlines and sprinkling in extra zaniness. W But ’s been less sure of how to handle the Democratic primary, which is overcrowded with characters and also tied up in

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