Colin Jost has spent most of his time at Saturday Night Live telling jokes behind the Weekend Update desk, but over the last year or so, he’s started appearing in more traditional sketches. Most prominently, he’s started playing Secretary Of Defense Pete Hegseth in many of the show’s political bits. To viewers, he’s looked really comfortable doing the impersonation, but apparently below the surface, he’s wrestled with some feelings.
Jost was joined by former SNL star Kate McKinnon for a public conversation at the History Talks event at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia on Saturday. Put on by Comcast, the extravaganza also included panels, discussions and Q&As with Bill and Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Nicole Kidman and more. During Jost and McKinnon’s chat, the subject of political impressions came up, which McKinnon has a ton of experience with. She said she spent a lot of time thinking about the feelings of the person she was playing, whether she agreed with them politically or not.
