SNL goes easy on Biden and his classified documents scandal by joking VP Kamala Harris has avoided probe because president doesn’t trust her enough to give a PEN let alone trust her with top secret papers
- ‘[He] won’t even give this woman a pen. You think she has classified documents?’
- The sketch sent up the recent controversy over classified documents
- It ended with a bizarre attempt to turn serious and comment on Tyre Nichols
Saturday Night Live presented a sendup of Joe Biden’s classified documents scandal to open up this weekend’s show, with stray shots fired at Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The sketch began with a Hollywood trailer-style intro for Attorney General Merrick Garland – played by Mikey Day – explaining the status of the investigation after classified documents were found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s home.
It then went with mainstay Kenan Thompson as an FBI agent cracking jokes about the investigation, followed by his character introducing a ‘special agent’ who was asked to discuss whether anything was found at Vice President Harris’ residence.
Ego Nwodim’s agent character deadpanned: ‘Come on now. Joe Biden won’t even give this woman a pen. You think she has classified documents? Please.’
Ego Nwodim’s agent character deadpanned: ‘Come on now. Joe Biden won’t even give this woman a pen. You think she has classified documents? Please.’
Saturday Night Live presented a sendup of Joe Biden’s classified documents scandal to open up this weekend’s show, with stray shots fired at Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland
Day’s Garland returned to say: ‘Well, we had to at least check.’
He then introduced an agent played by Bowen Yang to speak about what, if anything was found at ex-President Barack Obama’s house.
Yang’s character cracked: ‘Don’t mean to brag, but I was in Barack Obama’s house. Yeah. No big deal. But it was really fun.
‘Mr. Obama opened the door and said, ‘are you selling girl scout cookies?’ Which had us all totally cracking up, like completely dead.’
He then joked that Obama’s house contained not classified documents but ‘175 letters from Lin Manuel begging the president to perform Hamilton.’
Earlier in the sketch, the Garland impersonator bemoaned the fact that so many political figures had classified documents and wondered the point of it all.
‘Some have said the federal government classifies too many documents,’ he said. ‘About 50 million a year.
‘This has led people to ask, ‘does recovering these documents even matter?’ To which I say, I don’t know.’
The sketch ended with a bizarre attempt to turn serious and comment on the Tyre Nichols murder video, with Thompson’s agent asking Garland if they planned to go ‘make sure justice is served down there too.’
The sketch began with mainstay Kenan Thompson as an FBI agent explaining the status of the investigation after classified documents were found at former Vice President Mike Pence’s home
Then, Merrick Garland – played by Mikey Day – introduced a ‘special agent’ who was asked to discuss whether anything was found at current Vice President Harris’ residence
The sketch was a take on the recent controversy over classified documents being found at several key Washington politicians’ homes
The sketch began with a Hollywood trailer-style intro for Attorney General Merrick Garland
The sketch ended with a bizarre attempt to turn serious and comment on the Tyre Nichols murder video, with Thompson’s agent asking Garland if they planned to go ‘make sure justice is served down there too’
Day’s Garland responded ‘I sincerely hope so’ before they broke into the show’s catchphrase of ‘Live from New York, it’s Saturday night.’
It comes after former Vice President Mike Pence took ownership of the documents imbroglio that has suddenly thrown him in company with former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden after the discovery of classified documents in his Indiana home.
With two special counsels probing Trump and Biden, Pence said Friday he had not been aware that classified documents were at his Indiana home and took ‘full responsibility’ for the security breach.
‘Let me be clear: those classified documents should not have been in my personal residence,’ Pence said. ‘Mistakes were made and I take full responsibility,’ he added.
Pence, speaking at Florida International University in Miami, said a review was conducted of his personal records after classified documents were found at President Joe Biden´s home in Delaware.
The PR move comes as the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee demanded the director of national intelligence provide information on the contents of documents found at Trump and Biden’s homes.
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