Although the midterm elections are heating up, Saturday Night Live takes a rather lukewarm look at them, kicking the Halloween episode off with a PBS News Hour segment featuring three controversial Republican nominees who have become recent favorites in their respective races: Georgia and Pennsylvania Senate candidates Herschel Walker (Kenan Thompson) and Dr Oz (Mikey Day) and Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (Cecily Strong, who’s been absent these past several weeks).
All three are moronic con artists and political novices who have nonetheless won over much of the voting populace by waging culture wars against big city crime, “drag queen story time”, and “children in school identifying as Pokémon”.
