Elizabeth Warren Crashes SNL and I Deserve an Apology

A few weeks ago, Tucker Carlson pointed out that Elizabeth Warren is on her way to becoming Hillary Clinton, and every day that becomes more and more true. Saturday night, Warren crossed the “Cringey Appearance on SNL” threshold, and I think we’re all owed an apology.

It’s an excruciatingly long segment, but they saved the cringiest for last so you can safely skip ahead to 6:40 for peak suffering.

Since I can’t type up my own summary and we’re already scraping the bottom of the media barrel by talking about SNL, enjoy Vox’s summary if you can’t bear to click play:

When asked about her post-primary life, Warren made a playful jab at the questions of electability that followed her during he entire campaign.

“I’m doing just fine, my friends and family have been so supportive,” she said, “They’ve been calling nonstop, asking, ‘Are you okay? What do you need? Were you electable?’”

The show took the time to highlight one of the most memorable moments of Warren’s campaign: her sharp attacks against Mike Bloomberg during each of his two presidential debate appearances. McKinnon introduced a video from one of the debates, but what actually played was a viral video of the senator’s dog Bailey holding on to a stolen burrito in his mouth. Rolling with the “mistake,” Warren said she was the dog and Bloomberg was the burrito.

Later in the skit, Warren highlighted her debate performances one more time: “Not only did I not accept money from billionaires, I got to give one a swirly on live TV,” she said.

SNL also didn’t shy away from a question on the minds of many Democratic voters right now: Who will Elizabeth Warren endorse? To that, Warren replied, “It’s tough. Maybe I’ll just pull a New York Times and endorse them both,” referencing how the publication endorsed both her and Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

And now that she’s off the campaign trail, Warren said she had more free time to dedicate to fun hobbies like “prank calling big banks, drag racing Subarus, and avoiding Twitter.”

As Warren began her closing comments, McKinnon joined her, impersonating the senator one last time. Dressed in the same blue blazer and hairstyle as Warren, McKinnon thanked the senator for her work, but Warren made it clear that she’d still be around.

“I’m not dead, I’m just in the Senate,” she said.

“Excruciating” just doesn’t cut it when it comes to this segment, or the fawning Vox write up for that matter. I’m going to go start a Go Fund Me for having to sit through it. I deserve reparations for this bullsh*t.