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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