RNC Midterm Ads Huh, so I guess they're NOT doing a spoof of the big congressional hearing everybody else was riffing all week. Meh, that ne...

Oasis (ft. Andy Burnham): Don't Get Scammed In Anger I got a good chuckle out of the word "NORTH" bring blared out like that right at the to...

Trump, Mamdani & Harp Seems appropriate that we'd get Ramy as Mamdani this week (it is a New York show after all) This is a slight improveme...

House Showing at 10 Downing St. Pretty simple and easy concept for a cold open, just having Emma as a realtor showing one of the top contend...

White House Hmm...Trump and Vance in the oval office? Could this be what I'm thinking it is? I did like Jeremy's response of "not enough for...

Three A-Holes Walk Into A Bar In Washington, D.C. OK, a random bar scene...with just Kenan and Chloe. This has some promise. Wait...don't fu...

Chuck & Camillas' Hijacked Flight Home I should've guessed that they'd do this sketch this week. I figured that they'd cast Larry & Emma as ...

White House Press Conference Ok, I liked that "A-Span of your life disappears when you watch C-Span" joke at the beginning. I liked the idea...

Oval Office Calls Huh, this is just a regular oval office scene with Ashley as Karoline Leavitt. At least this is a little different. I like...

Starmers' Address Hmm..still not too crazy about opening the show with sudden applause but it didn't exactly detract from this opening or se...

NCAA Final Four Post Game Show Hey, an off the beaten path cold open choice! Nice to see they're using Kam in something, but that Chappel Ro...

Starmer Calls Trump Wow, I see we're already keeping one of SNL US' on and off traditions of starting off cold opens with unnecessary thunde...

Prince Andrew Meets With MI5 Hey, they didn't open the show with sudden, screaming out-of-nowhere applause this week! Instead decided to...h...

Gas Prices Huh...a generic family road trip cold open set at a gas station? This could be interesting. God, I can't even remember the last t...

Hegseth Iran Press Conference Possibly the safest possible choice for a cold open, but hey...I'll take it. The "Hegstand/Papa Roach/Trump Re...

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ICE Meeting What the absolute fuck? A diffie opening text crawl followed by an even DIFFIER political impression. I don't know how far down ...

The First Annual Trumps Huh, OK. This is framed a bit differently. This seems like the type of thing that could've been a season 48/49 cold ...

Hey friends! It’s time for another late-to-the-party year-end list. Oh well. Frankly, I’m so glad I push these into January (and sometimes February). So often my absolute favorites (lik…

Trump Cabinet Meeting Of course... Yeah, just get us all caught up on January real quick... There's Marcellos' Rubio... The "don't read this...

Presidential Address I was a bit surprised that they would return to the standard "and now, an address from the President..." framing for a ...

Air Force One Press Briefing Yeah,they didn't fool me for a second into thinking this wasn't going to be Trump themed...but it's interesting...

Pentagon Press Conference Smart of them to open with another Jost as Hegseth sketch. He pretty much owned this whole thing. Bowen, Ben, Ashl...