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Kate McKinnon plays a grim 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg exclaims that the North Pole will be completely wiped out, and noted that “the elves will drown,” just before challenging President Trump.
At the end of SNL’s cold open this weekend, she closes the show with “Step to me and I’ll come at you like a plastic straw comes to a turtle,”.
Aidy Bryant acts as Sam the Snowman from the common Christmas favorite, “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer”. The sketch opens with the snowman noting how Americans seem more divided than ever this holiday season, between the Democrats filing for impeachment and the 2020 election rearing its’ head in the next year.
“But if we listen in to some dinner conversations tonight, I bet we’d find out we have more in common than we realize,” says the snowman. “And now we can listen because I hacked into three Nest home cams.”
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The sketch then jumps back and forth among three families – a multiracial liberal family in San Francisco, a white conservative family in Charleston, S.C., and a black family in Atlanta — one that foregoes talking politics at the dinner table.
Kenan Thompson, playing the father in Atlanta, prefers to skip subjects like impeachment in favor of “Bad Boys III,” the new movie starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
“Could we please talk about politics instead?” his son asks.
“You mean how Trump is definitely getting impeached and then definitely getting re-elected?” the dad responds. “I’m good.”
The son later tells his dad that people have been saying Trump won’t get a second term.
“What people? White people?” Thompson answers. “If white people tell you I might not vote for Trump this time, you know what that’s called, right? A lie. Nobody was gonna vote for Trump in 2016 either and then guess who did? Everybody. See, now you got me worked up. I need a drink.”
