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In this week’s ‘SNL’ cold open, a cameo-packed team of Dems take on Trump on ‘Family Feud’

In this week’s ‘SNL’ cold open, a cameo-packed team of Dems take on Trump on ‘Family Feud’

Poll says: Live from New York, it’s Saturday night! This week’s episode Saturday night live began with a hilarious cold open that imagined what the next presidential debate might look like if both sides had agreed to do it. But instead of the traditional debate, SNL posed the question “What if we got all these politicians together for a spirited game of family fight?” And thank God, because the answer is as funny as it is absurd.

On the left, we have Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph), Doug Emhoff (Andy Samberg), Tim Walz (Jim Gaffigan), i Joe Biden (Dana Carvey). On the right, we have donald trump (James Austin Johnson), Donald Trump Jr. (Mikey Day), i JD Vance (Bowen Yang). Notably absent from the lineup was former first lady Melania Trump. As Trump said of Johnson, “I could have sworn he was on my side about two years ago.” While we’ve seen all of these prints before, it’s always exciting to have so many stars at Studio 8H.

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Throughout the sketch, Team Harris faces off against Team Trump in the traditional family fight style, each team sends a representative to guess the most popular answers to the questions (because politicians are just like us, right?). Steve Harvey (Kenan Thompson) ask a few less family fightquestions of style too, like when Harris reveals his campaign hit $1 billion in fundraising this week. “How do you not win by thrashing?” he asks, to which Harris replies, “That’s a question I scream into my pillow every morning.” Rudolph’s Harris is also keen to bring up the fact that she owns a Glock (and would store it in the glove compartment of her car).

On Team Trump, things are a little more closed off. When Vance and Donald Jr. have a chance to steal the question from Democrats, they decline saying, “I’ve been told not to talk.” Meanwhile, when Trump is given the floor, he avoids the question entirely and goes off on a tangent Jerry Seinfeld wears mom jeans and ups the ante on her recent “pets are being eaten” talking point by saying, “They’re eating Moo Deng!”

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You can check out the full cold opening below:

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