Bill Hader and Ben Stiller Took Jabs at the Cohen Hearing on SNL, but Only Kyle Mooney Came Close to Embodying its Fundamental Stupidity

There was no way that Saturday Night Live’s cold open this week would be anything other than a highly-condensed version of Michael Cohen’s shitshow of a congressional hearing. The proceedings packed in more stupidity per second than the Republican National Convention, and nearly as much as CPAC. The show’s cold opens tend to impose a “Parade of Morons” structure even when it’s not already there—see, e.g., the countless sketches where Baldwin’s Donald Trump meets with his advisors one-by-one—and this time, Congressional Republicans graciously handed it to them on a silver platter. The challenge was finding some way to make the spectacle of Republicans spending seven-and-a-half hours pretending there was still some confusion over whether or not the president was a crook, a cheat, and a white supremacist funnier than it already was. That’s a tall order, but they more or less pulled it off:

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