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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Zach Vasquez

Saturday Night Live: controversial comedian Shane Gillis struggles to make an impression

man on a stage holding a microphone
Shane Gillis hosting Saturday Night Live. Photograph: YouTube

Saturday Night Live opens in Washington DC, at a post-South Carolina primary victory celebration for Donald Trump. Over drinks and appetizers, Republican senators James Risch (Mikey Day), Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernandez), Tim Scott (Devon Walker), and Lindsey Graham (James Austin Johnson) lament the personal and professional humiliations that Trump has heaped upon them – killing Risch’s Ukraine funding bill, dubbing Rubio “Little Marco” and making fun of his egregious sweating, endangering Graham’s life by doxing him – even as they continue to endorse and grovel before him.

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