'SNL' Brings Home The Laughs With Skit Showing Trump, Biden Meet-Up At White House

Posted • November 17, 2024: It's unusual to see "Saturday Night Live" earning praise in these pages, especially in recent years. But some of the cast's cold open skits during the 2024 election have brought home the laughs, and this week's episode was no exception. The focus of SNL's opening skit was the traditional, White House meet-up between the outgoing president, Joe Biden, and the president-elect, Donald Trump. Both alum Dana Carvey and regulalr cast member James Austin Johnson, who plays Trump, delivered several funny moments here, including a great swipe at the WH staffers who corrall the press away from Biden, and a solid jab at some in the legacy media's downtrodden reaction to the election results.

What's masterful here is Carvey's Biden originally disagreeing with Johnson's Trump about hating living in the White House. He insists it's "been great," and that he has "a lot of wonderful memories" he'll cherish. But once he checks off some of the not-so-great moments over the past four years in the Oval Office, "Biden" ends up seconding it. However, they do not score as well with two, new characters, whom the Trump character introduces while talking about his Cabinet picks. (…)

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